General information
Code: N5-0352
Period: 1.5.2024 - 30.4.2027
Project leader at FDV: izr.prof.dr. Maša Filipovič Hrast
Research activity: Social sciences
Abstract
Transformative decarbonisation action towards a ‘net zero transition’ (NZT) is essential to prevent worst climate changes. However, this and climate change itself may exacerbate social risks, especially for disadvantaged people and regions. Providing sustainable welfare – i.e. balancing human needs and environmental limits – adds to existing pressure on welfare states. In this context, new social conflicts and cleavages could develop in Europe, requiring a revision of current deservingness theory. The GreTA – Green Transition Attitudes: Social Risks and Deservingness in context of Climate Change project addresses this issue and seeks to create knowledge about how social risks related to climate change and NZT are discussed in media and perceived by different social groups and individuals. It also wants to contribute tounderstanding of what makes people perceive different beneficiaries of public support addressing these risks as more or less deserving, and how such perceptions are justified. The research will be conducted in three European countries – Belgium, Germany, and Slovenia – which share equity as the fundamental redistribution principle in their welfare systems. It is assumed that this principle also prevails in welfare policies addressing social risks related to climate change and NZT and leads to similar media framings and public opinions across the three cases. However, we also expect to find divergence due to different structural conditions and context-specific NZT pathways. The ultimate aim is to know what makes certain policies more acceptable, and hence more effective.
Research Organisation
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/21192
Researchers
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/21192
Citations for bibliographic records
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/21192
Key words
climate change, deservingness, green transition, redistributive justice, social risks, welfare state attitudes
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