A GREEN HISTORY OF THE WELFARE STATE
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- Author: TONY FITZPATRICK
- ISBN: 9780367030186
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Environmental problems – particularly
climate change – have become increasingly important to governments and social
researchers in recent decades. Debates about their implications for social
policies and welfare reforms are now moving towards centre stage. What has been
missing from such debates is an account of the history of the welfare state in
relation to environmental issues and green ideas.
A Green History of the Welfare State fills this gap. How have the
environmental and social policy agendas developed? To what extent have welfare
systems been informed by the principles of environmental ethics and politics? How
effective has the welfare state been at addressing environmental problems? How
might the history of social policies be reimagined? With its lively,
chronological narrative, this book
provides answers to these questions. Through overviews of key periods,
politicians and reforms the book weaves together a range of subjects into a new
kind of historical tapestry, including: social policy, economics, party
politics, government action and legislation, and environmental issues.
This book will be a valuable resource
for students and scholars of environmental policy and history, social and
public policy, social history, sociology and politics.