Overview
- Key concepts and principles underlying social protection and the social protection floor
- The right to social protection with evidence in key human rights treaties and instruments
- The role of social protection for adaptive climate change and reducing disaster risks
- Promising practices and innovative country examples and case studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies (BRIEFSPOPULAT)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Adaptive climate change
- Basic social protection
- Essential social transfers and services
- Life's risks
- Rights embodied in human rights treaties
- Social inclusion and alliance building
- Social protection and social development
- Social protection floor concept
- Social transfers and services
- The Social Protection Floor Inititative
- Transformative change
- Unemployment, ill health and natural disasters
- climate change
About this book
The Social Protection Floor Initiative promotes universal access to essential social transfers and services. Presently 80% of the global population does not enjoy a set of social guarantees that allows them to deal with life’s risks such as unemployment, ill health, and natural disasters. This book explores the importance and necessity of social protection, including key concepts, universal principles and human rights, the need for context-specific policies, the role of adaptive climate change, and country examples. Social protection refers to a set of essential transfers, services and facilities that all citizens everywhere should enjoy to ensure the realization of the rights embodied in human rights treaties. The Social Protection Floor aims to facilitate and accelerate the introduction or strengthening of sustainable context-specific social protection systems. Experiences from countries around the world that have implemented components of the Social Protection Floor provide evidence of its feasibility, affordability, and impact. The promise and success of social protection is important for transformative change, social inclusion, and alliance building, and raises critical questions about current neoliberal austerity measures. This book calls for a comprehensive, multi-dimensional, integrated and innovative policy mix that recognizes the interdependency between demographic shifts, employment, labour migration, social protection, economic development, and the environment.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Protection and Social Development
Book Subtitle: International Initiatives
Authors: Julie L. Drolet
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7878-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7877-1Published: 04 December 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7878-8Published: 19 November 2013
Series ISSN: 2211-3215
Series E-ISSN: 2211-3223
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 163
Topics: Social Policy, Social Work, Climate Change, Human Rights, Sustainable Development