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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).
Project description:
How are welfare states adapting to the current climate crisis? Combining a comparative analysis of social policies and the sociology of climate risks and disasters, this comparative project looks at the variety of public policies protecting against the social risks associated with environmental hazards linked to climate change in Europe. 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? The aim is to study the European public policy mechanisms that protect against the risks of drought, flooding, coastal erosion and heat waves, and how they adapt to the climate crisis. Using a mixed-methods research design, it will map protection policies against the social risks generated by environmental hazards in the EU (+ UK) by building an original comparative policy database. Furthermore, it will carry out comparative qualitative case studies (France, United Kingdom, Spain and the Netherlands) that will describe the adaptation process of social protection policies associated with climate change, the options discussed and the players and institutions involved in these processes since the early 2000s.
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