Meeting Needs within Limits
From Welfare States to Eco-Social Policy
Needs and Limits: Other Publications
THREE NEW ARTICLES ON SUFFICIENCY
Fair decarbonisation of housing in the UK: A sufficiency approach
Ian Gough, Stefan Horn, Charlotte Rogers and Rebecca Tunstall (2024)
Sufficiency as a Value Standard: From Preferences to Needs
Provisioning for sufficiency: envisaging production corridors
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Gough, Ian (2022)
Two scenarios for sustainable welfare: a framework for an eco-social contract.
Social Policy and Society, 21 (3). pp. 460-472. ISSN 1475-7464.
Translation by Kamimura, Yasuhiro (2023)
持続可能な福祉のための二つのシナリオ――環境社会契約のフレームワーク in『社会政策』(Social Policy and Labor Studies), Vol.14, No.3, pp.52-63.
ミネルヴァ書房 (Minerva Shobo)
Gough, Ian (2022)
The case for Universal Basic Services (全民基本服务的理由).
Translated by Kingok, Kinglun and Wang, Jiading. Chinese Public Policy Review (In Press).
Gough, Ian (2021)
From welfare states to planetary wellbeing.
In: Béland, Daniel, Morgan, Kimberly J., Obinger, Herbert and Pierson, Christopher, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 901 - 920. ISBN 9780198828389.
Gough, Ian (2021)
Two scenarios for sustainable welfare: new ideas for an eco-social contract.
Working papers (2021.12). European Trade Union Institute, Brussels, BE.
Gough, Ian, Kingok, Kinglun and Wang, Jiading (2022)
The case for Universal Basic Services (全民基本服务的理由).
Chinese Public Policy Review (In Press).
Gough, Ian (2021)
Two scenarios for sustainable welfare: a framework for an eco-social contract.
Social Policy and Society. ISSN 1475-7464.
Gough, Ian (2020)
Gough, Ian (2019)
Universal Basic Services: a theoretical and moral framework.
Political Quarterly, 90 (3). 534 - 542. ISSN 0032-3179.
Gough, Ian (2017)
Recomposing consumption: defining necessities for sustainable and equitable well-being.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375 (issue 2095).
Gough, Ian (2016)
Welfare states and environmental states: a comparative analysis.
Environmental Politics, 25:1, pp. 1-24.
Gough, Ian (2015)
Climate change and sustainable welfare: the centrality of human needs.
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 39:5, pp. 1191–1214.
Gough, Ian (2015)
Can growth be green? International Journal of Health Services, 45 (3). pp. 443-452.
Gough, Ian (2015)
The political economy of prevention.
British Journal of Political Science, 45 (2). pp. 307-327. ISSN 0007-1234.
Gough, Ian (2013)
Climate change, social policy, and global governance.
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 29 (3). pp. 185-203.
Gough, Ian (2013)
Carbon mitigation policies, distributional dilemmas and social policies.
Journal of Social Policy, 42 (2). pp. 191-213.
KEY BOOK
Doyal, L. and Gough, I. (1991)
A Theory of Human Need.
Macmillan Press.
Winner of the Deutscher prize 1992 and the Myrdal prize 1992.
'What is important and original (and doubtless in the eyes of some, presumptuous) about their project is that it not only tells us what our basic needs are (those of health and autonomy), but offers empirical criteria for the meeting of these goals' Kate Soper, New Left Review.
Link to first few chapters here.
CHAPTERS IN OTHER BOOKS
Gough, Ian (2021)
From welfare state to planetary wellbeing.
In: Béland, Daniel, Morgan, Kimberly J., Obinger, Herbert and Pierson, Christopher, (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 901 - 920. ISBN 9780198828389.
Gough, Ian (2019)
Necessities and luxuries: how to combine redistribution with sustainable consumption.
In: Meadowcroft, James, Banister, David, Holden, Erling, Langhelle, Oluf, Linnerud, Kristin and Gilpin, Geoffrey, (eds.) What Next for Sustainable Development?: Our Common Future at Thirty. Social and Political Science 2019. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 138-158. ISBN 9781788975193.
Gough, Ian and Meadowcroft, James (2011)
Decarbonizing the welfare state.
In: Dryzek, John S., Norgaard, Richard B. and Schlosberg, David, (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society. Oxford handbooks in politics & international relations. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 490-503. ISBN 9780199566600.
Gough, Ian (2015)
If I were you, I wouldn’t start from here.
In: Hay, Colin and Payne, Anthony, (eds.) Civic Capitalism. Polity Press, Cambridge, pp. 76-83.
Gough, Ian (2013)
Climate change and public policy futures.
In: Taylor-Gooby, Peter, (ed.) New Paradigms in Public Policy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
REPORTS
Gough, Ian (2014)
Climate change and sustainable welfare: an argument for the centrality of human needs.
CASEpapers (182). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Gough, Ian (2011)
Climate change, double injustice and social policy: a case study of the United Kingdom.
UNRISD Ocassional paper (1). United Nations Research Institute for Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland. ISBN 9789290850830.
Gough, Ian, Abdallah, Saamah, Johnson, Viki, Ryan-Collins, Josh and Smith, Cindy (2011)
The distribution of total embodied greenhouse gas emissions by households in the UK, and some implications for social policy. CASEpapers (CASE/152). Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.