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Dear colleagues, Please find below a call for a panel on climate change and social policy at the ICPP conference in Milan in July. http://www.icpublicpolicy.org/conference/article/article.php?conference=2&article=98 T03P09 - Connecting the dots between climate policy and social policy: Normative and empirical conditions for environmental welfare states (aka eco-social states) Chair - Mi Ah Schoyen, NOVA Norwegian Social Research, Oslo & Akershus University College, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> - Max Koch, Lund University, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Discussant (to be confirmed): Milena Büchs The call encourages theoretical and empirical papers that contribute to the debate about actual and prospective linkages and conflicts between climate change and associated policy responses (mitigation or adaptation) on the one hand and the welfare state on the other. The main motivation for examining in tandem the two policy fields is that "[i]ssues are becoming increasingly 'cross-cutting', and do not fit the ministerial boxes into which governments, and policy analysts, tend to place policies" (Peters, 1998: 296<http://www.icpublicpolicy.org/conference/article/article.php?conference=2&article=98#_ENREF_32>). Climate change is a prominent example of a modern policy dilemma that should not be dealt with as part of environmental policy only. The IPCC's messages have become increasingly alarming and unequivocal about the effects climate change will have not only for the natural environment but also on society (www.ipcc.ch<http://www.ipcc.ch/>). By contrast to the impacts of globalisation and population ageing, the implications of climate change have been largely ignored by scholarship on the welfare state. Though there is much evidence that climate change will qualitatively alter the social policy agenda (Gough et al, 2008), more research is needed on the climate-social policy nexus in the context of different economic growth models. We invite papers going in several directions including: * Conceptual/theoretical discussions of the linkages between climate change and associated policies on the one hand and the welfare state and social policies on the other. We particularly welcome papers that deal with these linkages in the context of different economic growth models and notions of justice (social, environmental, intergenerational). * Comparative assessments of policy output and outcomes relating to the two policy fields. * Papers that seek to identify the determinants of environmental and social policies as substitutes (trade-off hypothesis) or complements (synergy hypothesis) * Papers addressing the likely public acceptability and political implications of different policy solutions (based on e.g. social survey data). ________________________________ Best wishes, Max Koch ---------------------------------------------------- Max Koch Professor Lund University Faculty of Social Sciences Socialhögskolan and Pufendorf Institute for Advanced Studies Box 23, 22100, Lund, Sweden Phone: 0046-46-2221268 Fax: 00-46-46-2229412 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>