Sustainable Modernity

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with hig...

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description The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351765633, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. In the 21st century, Norway, Denmark and Sweden remain the icons of fair societies, with high economic productivity and quality of life. But they are also an enigma in a cultural-evolutionary sense: though by no means following the same socio-economic formula, they are all cases of a "non-hubristic", socially sustainable modernity that puzzles outside observers. Using Nordic welfare states as its laboratory, Sustainable Modernity combines evolutionary and socio-cultural perspectives to illuminate the mainsprings of what the authors call the "well-being society". The main contention is that the Nordic uniqueness is not merely the outcome of one particular set of historical institutional or political arrangements, or sheer historical luck; rather, the high welfare creation inherent in the Nordic model has been predicated on a long and durable tradition of social cooperation, which has interacted with global competitive forces. Hence the socially sustainable Nordic modernity should be approached as an integrated and tightly orchestrated ecosystem based on a complex interplay of cooperative and competitive strategies within and across several domains: normative-cultural, socio-political and redistributive. The key question is: Can the Nordic countries uphold the balance of competition and cooperation and reproduce their resilience in the age of globalization, cultural collisions, the digital economy, the fragmentation of the work/life division, and often intrusive EU regulation? With contributors providing insights from the humanities, the social sciences and evolutionary science, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of political science, sociology, history, institutional economics, Nordic studies and human evolution studies.
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Core Design Principles
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Civil Society
Qualtiy of life
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CSR Engagement
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Universal Welfare State
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Nav Reform
Dag O. Hessen
Major Evolutionary Transition
Øystein Sørensen
EU’s Greenhouse Gas Emission
Kirsti Klette
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Sustainable Modernity
title Sustainable Modernity
title_full Sustainable Modernity
title_fullStr Sustainable Modernity
title_full_unstemmed Sustainable Modernity
title_short Sustainable Modernity
title_sort sustainable modernity
topic Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority
sustainable futures
Nordic Education Model
Nordic welfare
EITI Implementation
Norwegian Feminists
welfare state
Norway
Nordic Model
EITI
Denmark
Core Design Principles
Sweden
Civil Society
Qualtiy of life
sustainable communities
CSR Engagement
resilient communities
Nordic Countries
Atle Midttun
Universal Welfare State
David Sloan Wilson
Nav Reform
Dag O. Hessen
Major Evolutionary Transition
Øystein Sørensen
EU’s Greenhouse Gas Emission
Kirsti Klette
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
topic_facet Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority
sustainable futures
Nordic Education Model
Nordic welfare
EITI Implementation
Norwegian Feminists
welfare state
Norway
Nordic Model
EITI
Denmark
Core Design Principles
Sweden
Civil Society
Qualtiy of life
sustainable communities
CSR Engagement
resilient communities
Nordic Countries
Atle Midttun
Universal Welfare State
David Sloan Wilson
Nav Reform
Dag O. Hessen
Major Evolutionary Transition
Øystein Sørensen
EU’s Greenhouse Gas Emission
Kirsti Klette
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBL Sociology: work and labour
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment
thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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