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Stevis, Dimitris; Morena, Edouard; Krause, Dunja

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“…Like other welfare policies, just transition policies may be viewed as standalone or as an opportunity to expand and deepen the social welfare state, as the strategy was originally conceived (Stevis et al, 2020). Clearly, such ambitious just transition policies will be transformative in an economic-liberal society, but they will also expand the social welfare state across the board.…”

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Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways

Krause

Stevis

Hujo

et al. 2022

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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By combining environmental and social objectives in order to address climate change and other environmental challenges, ‘just transitions’ have the potential to accelerate low-carbon transitions in an inclusive and equitable manner. More broadly, by strengthening an egalitarian and ecological public sphere that protects workers’ rights and the rights of nature, just transitions can contribute to a new eco-social contract for both people and planet, guaranteeing full access to social rights and a viable future for all. But like other strategies, just transitions vary in their ambition and thus their eco-social visions. This article builds on the analytical framework developed by the Just Transition Research Collaborative to comparatively assess different just transition pathways in Germany, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United States in the context of different types of welfare state and economic structure. The comparison may help stakeholders to evaluate different just transition policies according to contextual factors and transformative potential.

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Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways

Krause

Stevis

Hujo

et al. 2022

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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“…Originating from the United States' labour environmentalism of the 1970s and 1980s, the concept of ‘Just Transition’ has now gained support from diverse national and global labour unions and environmental justice groups (Bainton et al, 2021; Stevis, 2023). This includes its adoption by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and backing from the ILO.…”

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Mind the gap: The global governance of just transitions

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Transitions away from fossil fuels need to be governed, financed, regulated and coordinated, patterns of production and innovation need to be steered and shaped by rulemaking bodies at all levels of authority. For this to happen across a highly uneven international system, global institutions have a vital role to play in supporting and implementing just transitions (JTs) that align with principles addressing the procedural, distributional, intergenerational and recognition based aspects of justice and which help to address the temporal and spatial as pects of transitions. In this paper, we review the ways in which global institutions are involved in the governance of JTs. We illustrate the roles these institutions are playing through three key areas vital to JTs: the (i) governance of finance (ii) labour protection and (iii) mobilising alternatives. To make sense of the diverse and uneven nature of these engagements and their implications, we explore in turn four key gaps in the way global institutions are approaching the issue of JTs.

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“…What the idea of sustainable development did to reconcile environmental and economic objectives, ‘just transition’ could do for the socio-ecological nexus. In the mid-2000s, the idea of a just transition, first elaborated by the North American trade union movement in the 1980s, underwent a resurgence and global diffusion (Stevis et al, 2020). At its core, this idea centres around the social justice implications of climate change and decarbonisation.…”

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Harnessing welfare state theories to explain the emergence of eco-social policies

Mandelli

2023

European Journal of Social Security

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As complex challenges such as climate change and social inequality become more and more politically salient, eco-social policies are emerging as suitable public policy tools to pursue integrated environmental and social objectives. In spite of this, the sustainable welfare literature has been, at least until now, dominated by prescriptive studies, paying little attention to the politico-institutional conditions required for these policies to emerge. Against this background, this article aims to help filling this gap, by proposing a set of four theoretical expectations pointing to possible causal drivers and mechanisms behind the adoption of this particular kind of policies. It does so by harnessing the most established welfare state theories and reflecting on their potential and limitations when applied to the study of eco-social policies. Selected theoretical strands – functionalism, historical institutionalism, interest-based and ideas-based theories – are first reviewed and then applied to the specific object of the study, with a view to deriving the four expectations by deduction. The ultimate aim is to generate a politico-institutional theory of eco-social policies, which can guide future empirical research. The article argues that eco-social policies can be expected to emerge in strong environmental states and/or in weak welfare states, in which equally powerful labour and green interests engage in political exchanges, or where advocacy coalitions form around ambiguous ideas, such as ‘just transition’. The article concludes by arguing that only an actor-centred approach based on empirically observable policy preferences can help us to craft minimally sufficient causal inferences about the emergence of eco-social policies.

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Cited by 21 publications

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Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways

Just transitions for a new eco-social contract: analysing the relations between welfare regimes and transition pathways

Mind the gap: The global governance of just transitions

Harnessing welfare state theories to explain the emergence of eco-social policies

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