Table of Contents
Introduction: Research on sustainable welfare: State of the art and outline of the book - Max Koch and Oksana Mont
PART I: Perspectives on Sustainable Welfare
Chapter 1: The concept of sustainable welfare - Eric Brandstedt and Maria Emmelin
Chapter 2: Human needs, steady-state economics and sustainable welfare - Max Koch and Hubert Buch-Hansen
Chapter 3: Reconceptualizing prosperity – Some reflections on the impact of globalization on health and welfare - Maria Emmelin and Kate Soper
Chapter 4: The future is not what it used to be: On the roles and function of assumptions in visions of the future - Eric Brandstedt and Oksana Mont
PART II: Policies Towards Establishing Sustainable Welfare
Chapter 5: Green political economy: Policies for and obstacles to sustainable welfare - Jamil Khan and Eric Clark
Chapter 6: Climate change and the welfare state: Do we see a new generation of social risks emerging? - Håkan Johansson, Jamil Khan and Roger Hildingsson
Chapter 7: Market solutions to climate change: Examples of of personal carbon trading and rationing - Roger Hildingsson and Max Koch
Chapter 8: The changing landscape of work time reduction: The past and the future - Oksana Mont
PART III: Emerging Practices of Sustainable Welfare
Chapter 9: Transitions towards degrowth and sustainable welfare: Carbon emission reduction and wealth and income distribution in France, the US and China - Hubert Buch-Hansen, Annika Pissin and Erin Kennedy
Chapter 10: Social economy and green social enterprises: Production for sustainable welfare? - Eric Clark and Håkan Johansson
Chapter 11: What is possible, what is imaginable? Stories about low carbon life in China - Erin Kennedy and Annika Pissin
Chapter 12: The interaction of policy and experience: An ‘alternative hedonist’ optic - Kate Soper
Conclusion: Looking back, looking forward: Results and future research directions - Oksana Mont and Max Koch