WELRISCC – Welfare State Responses to Social Risks in Times of Climate Change

The CHANSE/NORFACE collaboration brings together universities from Germany, France, Slovenia, UK and Sweden: WELRISCC investigates how European welfare states address and manage the social risks arising from climate change. Specifically, the project examines how 16 European welfare states respond to "third-generation social risks" associated with climate change. Leading the work package on ideas of 3rd generation social risk management, Vincent Gengnagel's DFG project adopts a cultural sociologist perspective, aiming to understand underlying moral paradigms, and related social constructions of 3rd generation social risks. This allows, for instance, to capture the role of work ethos or of environmentally friendly behaviour in regime-specific risk constructions - as well as respective anti-transformative motivations. If you would like to learn more about the project, get in touch with Vincent Gengnagel (Vincent.gengnagel@uni-flensburg.de).