Decarbonizing the welfare state
Decarbonizing the welfare state
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福利国家脱碳
DOI：
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566600.003.0033
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
J. Meadowcroft
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作者：
I. Gough;J. Meadowcroft
在二十世纪，福利国家成为现代政体最显著的特征之一。福利国家与主要生产性资产集中私人所有的市场经济、多党选举和相当广泛的个人权利的政治制度一起，帮助界定了当代发达社会的基本特征。这篇文章的重点是气候变化和福利国家之间的联系。由于福利国家几乎是发达社会独有的特征，它忽略了气候变化的所有国际方面，除非它们直接或间接地影响到西方的福利国家。在缺乏可靠的比较数据的情况下，本文使用了对英国的研究结果。首先描述了当代福利国家的特征，然后讨论了气候变化对福利国家的挑战。此外，它还根据脱碳的必要性分析了福利国家。
Over the twentieth century the welfare state emerged as one of the most conspicuous features of the modern polity. Together with a market-mediated economy with concentrated private ownership of the principal productive assets, and political systems with multi-party elections and fairly extensive individual rights, the welfare state helps define the basic character of contemporary developed societies. This article focuses on linkages between climate change and the welfare state. Since welfare states are almost uniquely a feature of developed societies, it ignores all international aspects of climate change, unless they impinge directly or indirectly on the welfare states of the West. In the absence of reliable comparative data, this article uses research findings on the UK. It first describes the characteristics of contemporary welfare states; and then discusses the challenges to the welfare state from climate change. Furthermore it analyses the welfare state in light of the decarbonization imperative.