Eco-Social Policy in the OECD and the World Bank

This book explores eco-social policy and its role in the global governance system. By focusing on the eco-social policy discourses of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of how and to what extent these influential international organisations integrate environmental and social concerns and promote an integrated eco-social policy perspective. While the OECD and the World Bank promote crucial elements of eco-social policy integration, the book argues that they fall short of pushing toward a social-ecological transformation within global governance that profoundly focuses on the decommodification of nature and labour. Drawing on different concepts, including Polanyi's notion of the double movement, it shows how there are partly contradictory policy perspectives on eco-social policy integration in both organisations, which eventually stabilise the existing capitalist mode of production, albeit with green conditions. Through its in-depth exploration of the eco-social policy discourses of the OECD and the World Bank, this book serves as an essential resource for understanding and questioning the scope of sustainable and equitable global policy frameworks for both researchers and practitioners.

Introduces a novel framework to evaluate policy approaches and identify their eco-social and transformative potential Explores the interconnectedness of environmental and social policy concerns within the OECD and the World Bank Offers insights for policymakers, researchers & practitioners seeking sustainable and equitable global policy frameworks

Autorentext

Robin Schulze Waltrup is a postdoctoral researcher with the working group German and Transnational Social Policy at Bielefeld University, Germany. Recently, he has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Leeds, UK. He researches and teaches global governance, eco-social policy and sustainable welfare.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Towards Global Eco-Social Policy.- 2. A Theoretical Framework of Global Policy Dynamics.- 3. An Eco-Social Policy Typology: From System Reproduction to Transformation.- 4. The Eco-Social Policy Discourse of the OECD.- 5. The World Bank's Eco-Social Policy Discourse.- 6. Comparing the OECD and World Bank: Different Eco-Social Policy Emphases.- 7. Eco-Social Policy in Global Governance.- 8. Conclusion.