TY  - BOOK
AU  - Drolet,Julie L.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Social Protection and Social Development: International Initiatives 
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Population Studies,
SN  - 9789400778788
AV  - JF20-2112 
U1  - 361 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Economics
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Sustainable development
KW  - Social policy
KW  - social work
KW  - Economics/Management Science
KW  - Social Policy
KW  - Social Work
KW  - climate change
KW  - human rights
KW  - Sustainable Development
N1  - Background to the Social Protection Initiative -- International Instruments -- Definition of the Social Protection Floor -- Adaptive Social Protection -- Country Developments and Initiatives -- Appendices
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7878-8
ER  -