Although previous literature has explored the relation between climate change and welfare, it has been partial and sporadic. This study suggests three research questions that have not covered in the previous domestic studies. First, What are the chara...
Although previous literature has explored the relation between climate change and welfare, it has been partial and sporadic. This study suggests three research questions that have not covered in the previous domestic studies. First, What are the characteristics of social risks by climate change? Second, how can we classify the social policy approaches to deal with climate change? Third, What are the relationship between welfare state and ecological state? This study explored these requestions through foreign literature review. First, this study looked at the characteristics of the social risks induced by the climate change by comparing with (post)industrial social risks. Second, this study classified the three approaches of social policy to deal with the social risks from climate change, which were the social policy as adaptation, the social policy under the strategy of green growth, the social policy in the transition to the de-growth/de-consumption society. Third, this study explored the relation between welfare state and ecological state, having looked at welfare attitudes versus ecological attitudes, welfare performance versus ecological performance, and welfare regime and ecological attitudes(performance).