Webinar - It takes two to tango: how to jointly analyse social and environmental policies?

Until recently the analysis of social welfare systems in Europe was totally disconnected from ecological concerns and policies. But the recognition that both areas are interlinked is gradually taking the upper hand. Environmental policies have important social impacts and social and welfare policies have environmental impacts and could mitigate the costs of environmental societal transformation. In this respect a joint analysis of the challenges and consequences of new developments and policies concerning both areas is very much needed. This webinar should provide the forum for an open discussion with the aim of establishing a research agenda on the interrelations of ecological and social policies.

This webinar is a collaboration between the ETUI and the European Climate Foundation (ECF)

Speakers: 

Host: Philippe Pochet, General Director ETUI (see here his presentation)

• Eloi Laurent, senior economist at OFCE (Sciences Po, Paris), Professor at the School of management and innovation at Sciences Po and Visiting Professor at Stanford University, 
• Bea Cantillon, Professor of Social Policy and member of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy at the University of Antwerp,
• Ian Gough, Visiting Professor at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and an Associate at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI), London School of Economics and Political Science 
• Adeline Otto, postdoctoral researcher KU Leuven - Centre for Sociological Research 

Related publications or events:

• Laurent E. and Pochet P., Towards a social-ecological transition. Solidarity in the age of environmental challenge
• Eloi Laurent, The New Environmental Economics: Sustainability and Justice, Polity Press, 2020
• Eloi Laurent, Measuring Tomorrow: Accounting for Well-Being, Resilience, and Sustainability in the Twenty-First Century, Princeton University Press, 2018, see also in French: Penser l'État-providence post-croissant, 2020  
• Otto, A.; Gugushvili, D. Eco-Social Divides in Europe: Public Attitudes towards Welfare and Climate Change Policies. Sustainability 2020, 12, 404.
• Ian Gough: In times of climate breakdown, how do we value what matters?, Open Democracy 28 April 2020
• Ian Gough: Universal Basic Services: A Theoretical and Moral Framework
• Ian Gough: Necessities and Luxuries: How to Combine Redistribution with Sustainable Consumption
• ETUI Education Webinar on the practice of green competences