Sustainable Development (eBook, ePUB)

Capabilities, Needs, and Well-being
Redaktion: Rauschmayer, Felix; Frühmann, Johannes; Omann, Ines

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection's argument refocuses sustainable development on needs and makes it easier for people to relate positively to its core values. This exciting new book incites a whole new way of looking at sustainable development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136886768
• Artikelnr.: 38277478

Autorenporträt

Felix Rauschmayer is a senior research fellow at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, Germany. Ines Omann is a senior researcher at the Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria. She is also a lecturer in ecological economics and sustainability at the University of Graz and the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria. Johannes Frühmann is a researcher at the Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Austria.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Death and Rebirth of Economics 1. Needs, Capabilities, and
Quality of Life: Refocusing Sustainable Development 2. The Overshadowing of
Needs 3. Sustainability as a Challenge to the Capability Approach 4. From
Individual Well-Being to Sustainable Development: A Path Where
Psychologists and Economist Meet 5. The Life-Chances Concept: A
Sociological Perspective on Equity and Sustainable Development 6. Human
Needs Frameworks and Their Contribution as Analytical Instruments in
Sustainable Development Policy-Making 7. A Plea for the Self-Aware
Sustainability Researcher: Learning from Business Transformation Processes
for Transitions to Sustainable Development 8. Transition Towards
Sustainable Development: Which Tensions Emerge? How To Deal With Them?