Towards a welfare state at +4 degrees? Rethinking social protection in the light of environmental disasters
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A projet led within LIEPP's Environmental policies and Socio fiscal policies research groups in partnership with la Mission Recherche (MiRe) de la Direction de la Recherche, des Études, de l'Évaluation et des Statistiques (DREES).
How is the Welfare State adapting to an increasingly severe climate crisis? Combining a comparative analysis of social policies and the sociology of climate risks and disasters, this project looks at the mechanisms used to protect against the social risks associated with environmental hazards linked to climate change. It asks the following question: how can we characterise and explain the different types of policies put in place in Europe to protect populations against environmental hazards? This project aims to study existing protection systems in European countries against the risks of drought, flooding, coastal erosion and heat waves, and their adaptation to the climate crisis. Using a mixed-methods approach, it intends to map protection policies against the social risks posed by climatic hazards in the EU (+U.K.) by building an original comparative database; and to carry out a comparative case study survey (France, United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands) that will provide an account of the ways in which protection systems against social risks linked to climate change have been adapted, the players involved, the options discussed and the institutions that have been involved in these processes since the early 2000s.
