広井教授が東アジア社会政策研究ネットワーク年次大会で基調講演を行いました
広井良典教授が名古屋大学で開かれた第14回東アジア社会政策研究ネットワーク年次大会（The 14th East Asian Social Policy Research Network Annual Conference）で基調講演を行いました。
東アジア社会政策研究ネットワーク(East Asian Social Policy Research Network, EASP)は、東アジア諸国における社会政策を研究する研究者等の国際的組織で、2005年に創設されました。今回の大会は「East Asian Social Policy in a Changing Environment: Comparisons, Visions and Futures （変化する環境の中での東アジアの社会政策：比較、展望、未来）」を全体テーマとして8月2・3日の2日間にわたって開催されました。
広井教授は、2日目の全体セッションにおいて、ユニセフのSarah Cook博士と並んで基調講演者となり、「Possibility of Sustainable Welfare Societies: Integration of Social Policy and Environmental Policy in the Post-growth Society（持続可能な福祉社会の可能性：ポスト成長社会における社会政策と環境政策の統合）」と題する講演を行いました。
シンポジウムで発表した広井教授の資料を公開します。下記PDFをダウンロードしてご覧ください。
《広井教授の講演要旨》
Possibility of Sustainable Welfare Societies: Integration of Social Policy and Environmental Policy in the Post-growth Society
Welfare state models in the latter half of the 20th Century presupposed the continuous economic growth, and have been constructed on the assumption that economic growth and increasing income equality are mutually reinforcing. But currently, as most of the industrialized countries are experiencing chronical economic stagnations owing to the maturation of consumptions and more fundamentally, the finite nature of natural resources and environments in the global level are being recognized, welfare state models combined with the continuous economic growth are put into question.
In such a context emerges the concept of “sustainable welfare society,” which means that the concept and discourse of “sustainability” should be incorporated into the discussions and policy paradigms of social policy. This also means that the integrations of social policies which deal with distributional justice and environmental policies which deal with sustainability of human economic activities should be in some way or other designed and pursued.
The concept of sustainability has multiple dimensions and among them, 1) environmental sustainability under the conditions of finite natural resources, 2) financial or institutional sustainability of social protection systems, 3) demographic and inter-generational sustainability in the times of aging population and population decrease, 4) sustainability of work or employment in the age of innovation are included. And when we look at the present situation of Japan, whose current administration having the “growth-maniac” orientations, all of these dimensions of sustainability are placed in jeopardy.
Based upon such concerns and conceptual frameworks, and drawing on some international comparisons and historical evolutions of capitalism, I will explore the possibility of sustainable welfare societies as well as policies to be taken, and draw some implications for the East Asian societies.
《講演資料》
EASP年次大会 広井講演資料.pdf”
《大会プログラム》
http://www.lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~kamimura/easp2017.pdf
Possibility of Sustainable Welfare Societies: Integration of Social Policy and Environmental Policy in the Post-growth Society
Welfare state models in the latter half of the 20th Century presupposed the continuous economic growth, and have been constructed on the assumption that economic growth and increasing income equality are mutually reinforcing. But currently, as most of the industrialized countries are experiencing chronical economic stagnations owing to the maturation of consumptions and more fundamentally, the finite nature of natural resources and environments in the global level are being recognized, welfare state models combined with the continuous economic growth are put into question.
In such a context emerges the concept of “sustainable welfare society,” which means that the concept and discourse of “sustainability” should be incorporated into the discussions and policy paradigms of social policy. This also means that the integrations of social policies which deal with distributional justice and environmental policies which deal with sustainability of human economic activities should be in some way or other designed and pursued.
The concept of sustainability has multiple dimensions and among them, 1) environmental sustainability under the conditions of finite natural resources, 2) financial or institutional sustainability of social protection systems, 3) demographic and inter-generational sustainability in the times of aging population and population decrease, 4) sustainability of work or employment in the age of innovation are included. And when we look at the present situation of Japan, whose current administration having the “growth-maniac” orientations, all of these dimensions of sustainability are placed in jeopardy.
Based upon such concerns and conceptual frameworks, and drawing on some international comparisons and historical evolutions of capitalism, I will explore the possibility of sustainable welfare societies as well as policies to be taken, and draw some implications for the East Asian societies.
《講演資料》
EASP年次大会 広井講演資料.pdf”
《大会プログラム》
http://www.lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~kamimura/easp2017.pdf
2017/08/04