Eco-Social Policy in the OECD and the World Bank: Global Governance and Social-Ecological Transformation

by Robin Schulze Waltrup

Overview

This book explores eco-social policy and its role in the global governance system. By focusing on the eco-social policy discourses of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of how and to what extent these influential international organisations integrate environmental and social concerns and promote an integrated eco-social policy perspective. While the OECD and the World Bank promote crucial elements of eco-social policy integration, the book argues that they fall short of pushing toward a social-ecological transformation within global governance that profoundly focuses on the decommodification of nature and labour. Drawing on different concepts, including Polanyi's notion of the double movement, it shows how there are partly contradictory policy perspectives on eco-social policy integration in both organisations, which eventually stabilise the existing capitalist mode of production, albeit with green conditions. Through its in-depth exploration of the eco-social policy discourses of the OECD and the World Bank, this book serves as an essential resource for understanding and questioning the scope of sustainable and equitable global policy frameworks for both researchers and practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031954283
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	09/07/2025
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Robin Schulze Waltrup is a postdoctoral researcher with the working group “German and Transnational Social Policy” at Bielefeld University, Germany. Recently, he has been a Visiting Researcher at the University of Leeds, UK. He researches and teaches global governance, eco-social policy and sustainable welfare.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Towards Global Eco-Social Policy.- 2. A Theoretical Framework of Global Policy Dynamics.- 3. An Eco-Social Policy Typology: From System Reproduction to Transformation.- 4. The Eco-Social Policy Discourse of the OECD.- 5. The World Bank’s Eco-Social Policy Discourse.- 6. Comparing the OECD and World Bank: Different Eco-Social Policy Emphases.- 7. Eco-Social Policy in Global Governance.- 8. Conclusion.