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Karin Bradley Department of Water and Environmental Studies, Linkoping University,Linkoping, SE-581 83 Sweden (email: karin.bradley@liu.se)Understanding the Environment and Social Policy deals with the intersection of environmental policy and social policy. Though often treated as two different fields with different sets of literature, in practice, they are deeply intertwined. The book is primarily written from the perspective of how environmental challenges alter the field of social policy, but it also considers to some extent how environmental policy can be more attentive to the dimensions of social sustainability. The volume develops a thorough ecosocial perspective of ethics, policy, and planning. Its explicit aim is to help advance the emerging field of ecosocial policy making. The volume is part of a series of books oriented to students on the overall theme of "understanding welfare." Despite a somewhat unappealing title, this book is an important work, not only for students, but also for politicians and practitioners.The book is an edited volume consisting of chapters on environmental challenges and policy, social challenges and policy, environmental ethics, environmental justice, health, urban planning, green jobs, citizenship, and international development. Tony Fitzpatrick, the editor of the book and author of three of its chapters, sets the overall tone. It is primarily his contributions--using illustrative examples and writing in a transparent, humorous and sometimes unexpected way--that engage the reader.Fitzpatrick is clear about the book's political positioning, a stance that is often absent from course literature that maintains an assumption of neutrality. He situates the work in the center-left and the mid-green shades of politics. At the same time, the contributors are careful to avoid being interpreted as alarmists or "unrealistic" ecologists. Rather they seek to position themselves as sound academics--well informed about global, social and environmental challenges and the necessities for action. The analyses, questions, and perspectives raised in the book move beyond the well-known consensus politics and the tired policies of mainstream society, and hence attempt to rethink current models and measurements of development and growth. In this respect, the authors bring up deep-rooted problems of Western civilization, such as the linear notion of progress and Cartesian philosophy, as they simultaneously engage with current everyday politics and geopolitical reality.What was lacking, however, was a more nuanced discussion about politics and the political--a more penetrating discussion about liberal democracy, current forms of political arrangements, and their capability (or lack thereof) to deal with environmental concerns. In Chapter Four, Philip Catney & Timothy Doyle briefly mention such theorists as Robyn Eckersley (2004) who argues that environmental responsibility and a "truly green state cannot be achieved within the frameworks of liberal democracy," and that "new forms of democracy" need to be developed. However, this chapter does not explore these new forms. This is a key question if one wants to advance ecosocial perspectives. How might current systems of democracy and governance be altered to better encompass environmental concerns, collective identities, care for the commons, as well as distant environments and distant people? It would have been fruitful to expand this discussion and engage with current debates around the post-political condition (Swyngedouw, 2007), that argues for going beyond contemporary consensus-seeking governance models and explores meanings of "the political," agonism, and radical pluralist democracy (both within and beyond the state) (see Mouffe, 2005).Catney & Doyle believe in state governance; however, they admit that until now no state can be said to have effectively handled environmental concerns (i.e., there are no "green states"). …

The connections between social and environmental policies have a longer and more fertile history than is often appreciated. Ignoring that history is not just unfortunate in its own terms but may mean that we deprive ourselves of resources that could be useful in the future. Unfortunately, social policy histories avoid discussion of the natural environment, just as environmental histories avoid discussion of welfare services. This article therefore seeks to open up new debates and a new field of research. It focuses upon one of the key periods in the development of UK state welfare, the Labour government of 1945–51. It argues that Labour displayed an ambivalence toward the natural environment. Land nationalisation had long been an aspiration, but Labour drew back from its more radical ambitions. In policy terms, this gave rise to a dualism. Town and country planning became one of its enduring legacies, but more socialistic, redistributive measures fell by the wayside.

Climate Change and Poverty offers a timely new perspective on the 'ecosocial' understanding of the causes, symptoms and solutions to poverty, and applies this to recent developments across a number of areas, including fuel poverty, food poverty, housing, transport and air pollution. This book is available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.

Naturally fractured reservoirs consist of fractures in igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks (matrix). Faults in many naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs often have high-permeability zones and are connected to numerous fractures with varying conductivities. In many naturally fractured reservoirs, faults and fractures can be discrete (rather than a connected network dual-porosity system). To accurately model pressure transient behavior of fractured reservoirs is important to gas and oil reservoirs. There are six important factors that dominate the pressure transient test flow regime behavior of fractured reservoirs those are fractures: 1) intersect the wellbore parallel to its axis; 2) intersect the wellbore with dipping angles from 0 to less than 90o; 3) are in the vicinity of the wellbore; 4) have extremely high- or low-fracture and fault conductivities; 5) have various lengths and distributions; and 6) have high and low matrix block permeabilities. All flow regimes associated with these factors will be demonstrated for continuously and discretely fractured reservoirs by using semi-analytical solutions. We employ principal component analysis to explore the model parameterization as pre-screening steps. Global sensitivity analysis methodology is employed to determine how the uncertainty of each parameter influences the uncertainty in the output from the reservoir model.

Many recent policy-related debates have centred on the possibility of constructing postsocial insurance and postmeans tested forms of income provision. Such asset-based welfare and stakeholding proposals have included Basic Income (BI) and some form of endowment or Capital Grant (CG) scheme. Although the differences between these systems are certainly real, and present us with distinct policy options, they are often overstated. This article has two objectives, therefore the first of which is to identify the key similarities and differences between BI and CGs, and to argue the case for a partial, non-time-limited and unconditional BI. Second, this article reviews the issue of convertibility, i.e., the main normative questions to consider when designing a system permitting the mortgaging of income streams into lump-sum grants or pools.

English Since the 1980s there have been three influential attempts to ground citizenship on the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these is reviewed in the article. The principal task of this article, however, is to examine the emergence of a fourth attempt, which, by relating duty to equality through the principle of reciprocity, represents a synthesis of traditional social democracy with the new politics of obligation. Our focus will be on The civic minimum by Stuart White, since this is arguably the most cogent expression of dutybased egalitarianism to have emerged in recent years.

Time is crucial to the implementation, operation and effectiveness of social policies, yet the subject has often treated the meaning of time as theoretically unproblematic. It focuses more upon what policies do and less upon the contexts within which the practices and assumptions of social actors are embedded. The article offers a more sophisticated theoretical account of time upon which is based an exploration of the main temporal features of welfare capitalism. It then goes on to examine three recent and prominent research projects in order to show how and why they fail to incorporate a convincing social theory of time.

"Social democracy has made a political comeback in recent years, especially under the influence of the Third Way. Not everyone is convinced, however, that Third Way social democracy is the best means of reviving the Left's project. This book considers this dissent and offers an alternative approach. Bringing together a range of social and political theories, After the new social democracy engages with some of the most important contemporary debates regarding the present direction and future of the Left. Drawing upon egalitarian, feminist and environmental ideas it proposes that the social-democratic tradition can be renewed but only if the dominance of conservative ideas is challenged more effectively. It explores a number of issues with this aim in mind, including justice, the state, democracy, new technologies, future generations and the advances in genetics. Lively and authoritative, After the new social democracy offers a distinctive contribution to political ideas. It will appeal to all of those interested in politics, philosophy, social policy and social studies." [author's abstracts]

Socijalna politika i kriminologija dugo su se bavili kriminalizacijom i regulacijom siromašnih. Teza ovoga rada je da su se posljednjih godina pojavili novi oblici kriminalizacije i regulacije koje su različiti autori iz obje discipline počeli teoretizirati. Ovim se radom želi doprinijeti rastućoj literaturi o tome približavanjem različitih tema koje zaslužuju da budu opširno raspravljene zajedno. Te su teme; prvo, globalizacija; drugo, promjenljiva priroda države; treće, reorganizacija vremena i prostora, pogotovo na urbanoj razini. U nastavku se proučavaju neki od novijih radova Jocka Younga, Davida Garlanda, Ramesha Mishre, Petera Taylora-Goobyja i Zygmunta Baumana. Zaključak je da teorijska i empirijska istraživanja trebaju analizirati reorganizaciju prostora i vremena, na koju utječe “država postsocijalne sigurnosti”, što tvori nove prioritete za socijalnu politiku i kriminologiju., The subjects of social policy and criminology have long been concerned with the criminalization and regulation of the poor. The premise of this paper is that in recent year new forms of criminalization and regulation have emerged that various authors, from both disciplines, have begun to theorize. The paper aims to contribute to this growing literature by bringing together diverse themes that deserve to be extensively discussed in conjunction with one another. These are: first, globalization; second, the changing nature of the state; third, the reorganization of space and time, especially at the urban level. It proceeds through examinations of some of the recent work of Jock Young, David Garland, Ramesh Mishra, Peter Taylor-Gooby and Zygmunt Bauman. It concludes that theoretical and empirical research should analyse the reorganization of space and time which is being effected by the “post-social security state” and it is this which constitutes the new agenda for social policy and criminology.