Social policy for sustainable development – theories and

paradigms under development

I. Introduction II. Interpretations of sustainable development III. Ecomodernisation as a compromise strategy

IV. Environmental state or chameleon state? V. The crisis of world ecology

Ilmo Massa 7.11. 2011

I. Introduction

John Maynard Keynes, 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946

Pekka Kuusi 1917-1989 Pekka Kuusi: Tämä ihmisen maailma (engl. This World of Man), 1983.

Environmental policy

Economic policy

Social policy Research policy

Very weak sustainablity

Symbolic policy

Economic externalities

Weak attempts for sustainable social policy

Marginal environmental research

Weak sustainability

Formal policy integration

Economic incentives

Rhetorics of sustainable development

Hegemonic natural scientific research

Strong sustainablity

Resilient environmental policy

Ecomoderni- sation

Ecosocial policy Environmental social science will begin

Very strong sustainablity

Binding environmental policy

Ecological structural change

Environmental welfare state

Interdiciplinary environmental science

II. Interpretations of sustainable development

Levels sustaina- bility

Spheres of policies

Environmental taxation

Demateriali-zation

Clean

production

Technological environmental

innovations

Social

innovations

Dimensions of ecomodernisation

III. Eco- social modernisation as a compromise strategy

What is the form and content of modernisation?

What will start the modernisation process?

Is it right that indigenous people will collapse in the process of modernisation?

Can a western model of modernization be an universal goal for development? What are the long-term

cost of modernization?

The clouds in the sky of ecomodernisation since the 1960s. Paradox: modernization theories were rejected in the social sciences in the same time as ther ecomodernisation theories were giving birth.

Barriers of ecomoder-

nisation

Rebound effect

Adaptation

Raubwirt-schaft

Green-

washing

Symbolic policy

Cultural barriers

Ecological sphere

Economic sphere

Political sphere Social sphere

Growing independence of the ecological sphere (basic idea from Spaargaren, 1997)

IV. Environmental state or chameleon state

Environmental Welfare State will

develop

Ecomodernisation will intensify

Ecosocial innovations will

grow

Sustainable economy will

strenghten

Sustainable welfare will

increase

Inequality will decrease

The virtuous cycle of welfare state The virtuous cycle of sustainable development

Economic growth

Social capital

will grow

Welfare will

increase

Inequality

will decrease

Welfare

inputs will increase

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgDw-w6ZoJs&NR=1

Time history of atmospheric CO2 (2010 update)

V. The crisis of world society

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