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Introduction to the special issue: Tackling inequality and providing sustainable welfare through eco-social policies 特刊导论:通过生态社会政策解决不平等问题，提供可持续的福利

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-11-08 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231213796

Martin Fritz, Jayeon Lee

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Mapping the social dimension of the European Green Deal 绘制欧洲绿色协议的社会维度

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231208698

Katharina Zimmermann, Vincent Gengnagel

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Support for eco-social policy from a class perspective: Responsibilities, redistribution, regulation and rights 从阶级角度支持生态社会政策:责任、再分配、监管和权利

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-10-25 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231208929

Martin Fritz, Dennis Eversberg

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The role of work and social protection systems in social-ecological transformations: Insights from deliberative citizen forums in Sweden 工作和社会保护系统在社会生态转型中的作用:来自瑞典协商公民论坛的见解

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-10-24 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231204989

Jayeon Lee, Max Koch

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Eco-social policy in the global political economy: Analysing shifting discourses on agricultural subsidies 全球政治经济中的生态社会政策:分析农业补贴的变迁话语

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231206002

Robin Schulze Waltrup, Madelaine Moore, Tim Paulsen

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Book Review: Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights by Virginia Mantouvalou 书评:《结构性不公正与工人权利》，作者:弗吉尼亚·曼图瓦卢

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231204825

Luca Ratti

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Harnessing welfare state theories to explain the emergence of eco-social policies 利用福利国家理论来解释生态社会政策的出现

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-10-11 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231205759

Matteo Mandelli

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Doughnuts for strategies: A tool for an emerging sustainable welfare paradigm 甜甜圈策略:新兴可持续福利范式的工具

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231206246

Mladen Domazet, Máté Fischer, Alexandra Köves

{"title":"Doughnuts for strategies: A tool for an emerging sustainable welfare paradigm","authors":"Mladen Domazet, Máté Fischer, Alexandra Köves","doi":"10.1177/13882627231206246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13882627231206246","url":null,"abstract":"The Degrowth Doughnut (a modification of the original Doughnut visualization of boundaries and foundations created by economist Kate Raworth) can be considered a visualization tool for assessing the current environmental and social capacity of a country to transform into an ecologically and socially sustainable modus operandi. Its sufficiently rich set of criteria, including cultural, socio-economic and biophysical indicators, gives us an overall picture of the problems to be dealt with and the strengths to build on in the immediate future. Its simple boundary-threshold structure presents limiting and aspirational targets in a single image. As such, it is also a tool that can aid eco-social policymaking to prioritize decisions and seek synergies between choices made. This research will present the Hungarian Degrowth Doughnut and use it as a case study when applied to the aims and expected impacts of Hungary’s operational National Clean Development Strategy. We will illustrate the degrowth-relevant priorities and assess the adequacy of the responses proposed by the Strategy, providing a critical analysis of the national policy options. Behind such climate and sustainability strategies are always a wealth of important value choices and moral considerations. Is there a safe and just operating space in the minds of the Hungarian policymakers? To what extent, if at all, are the fundamental principles of post-growth theories incorporated into a Hungarian sustainability strategy? We believe that a case study like this can also provide inspiration for further practical application of the Degrowth Doughnut elsewhere.","PeriodicalId":44670,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Social Security","volume":"268 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136358235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The conflicts of ecological transition on the ground and the role of eco-social policies: Lessons from Italian case studies 生态转型的冲突与生态社会政策的作用:来自意大利案例研究的教训

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-10-09 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231205995

Marta Bonetti, Matteo Villa

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An eco-social solution to energy poverty? Substance and symbolism in the England's use of domestic energy efficiency policy to achieve social and environmental synergies, 1997–2023 能源贫困的生态社会解决方案?1997-2023年，英国利用国内能源效率政策实现社会和环境协同效应的实质和象征意义

European Journal of Social Security Pub Date : 2023-09-26 DOI: 10.1177/13882627231195722

Paul Bridgen

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