Academic Abstract Stronger theory on the nature of human well-being is needed, especially
as well-being indicators are increasingly utilized in policy contexts. Building on Erik Allardt …

The social impacts of the climate crisis and the need for societal transformation to achieve
climate goals require integrated research and design of environmental policy and social …

As complex challenges like climate change and inequality become increasingly salient, eco-
social policies are emerging as suitable public policy instruments to pursue integrated …

Social policy developed as a research field and academic discipline to ensure protection
from social risks in the era of emerging capitalism and industrialization. While welfare states …

Growth-dependent welfare states contribute to climate emergency. The ecological
economics, degrowth, and sustainable welfare literatures demonstrate that to re-embed …

A rapid growth of population and more materialistic ways of life have given rise to what many
geologists now call the era of the Anthropocene. 1 In the Anthropocene, it is human activities …

Sustainable development has been a political catchphrase for almost 30 years. However, a
genuine transition towards sustainability has not yet begun. The prevailing values have …

The climate emergency and crisis of biodiversity loss show that the human–nature
relationship is failing. This paper introduces the psychological construct of nature …

This paper argues for transformative eco-social change in social work to address the
profession's most challenging paradox—inherent modernist roots that contradict the …

The history of welfare states is tightly linked to industrial capitalism and a mode of regulation
where production and consumption patterns increased in parallel. This has gone hand in …