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Social Justice as a Tool for Social Change

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This contribution is based on an ongoing research project on social commons. It is geared toward a project for social change, based on two necessary elements: the intersectionality between social, environmental, and economic policies, on the one hand, and strategic considerations for achieving the environmental goals, on the other hand. From the knowledge that old welfare states will not be resuscitated, the proposal is to develop a program of social commons, which is a democratic and participatory multilevel approach to meet the real needs of all people. Moreover, seeing the insufficiencies of behavioral economics and the capture of public authorities by transnational corporations, translating environmental policies into social policies with real and tangible advantages for people, a coherent and long-term perspective shows the road to sustainable social change, for individuals, societies, and nature.

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  1. Global Social Justice, Brussels, Belgium

    Francine S. R. Mestrum

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  1. School of Social Work and Social Welfare, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

    Rajendra Baikady

  2. Department of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

    S.M. Sajid

  3. Department of Social Work, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, South Africa

    Varoshini Nadesan

  4. Centre for Family Research, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland

    Jaroslaw Przeperski

  5. Inst of Social Welfare & Res, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

    M. Rezaul Islam

  6. Department of Social Work, Shandong University, Jinan, China

    Jianguo Gao

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Mestrum, F.S.R. (2022). Social Justice as a Tool for Social Change. In: Baikady, R., Sajid, S., Nadesan, V., Przeperski, J., Islam, M.R., Gao, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_217-1

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