This book addresses the two most critical issues facing humanity today, climate change and poverty, arguing that neither can be solved without resolving the other, and that in order to address these two critical issues, social policy (including environmental policy) will need to be completely altered from how it is conceived at present. Today's social values of consumption and accumulation will need to give way to new social markers, aesthetic consumption and accomplishment. Additionally, the allocation of resources in the new economy will be based on these new social markers rather than simply through the present market mechanism.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Part I
1. Introduction
2. The Human Crisis
3. Culture and False Consciousness in Human Evolution
4. The Context for Policy Making
5. Planning Theory in Social Policy Development
Part II
6. Poverty and Marginalization in the Keynesian Welfare State
7. Beyond Poverty: Major Areas for Active Social Policy
8. Social Policy in the Developing World
9. Building Community
10. The role of Research in Social Policy Formation
Part III
11. Decentring Work: The Role of Meaningful Activity and Leisure in Social Policy Development
12. The Way Forward - The Great Transformation
