This is the first book dedicated exclusively to the question of the
relationships between sustainability and the capability approach.
It is rather astonishing that the issue of sustainability first
posed by the Brundtland commission in 1987 has gained so little
attention from capability scholars despite the approach's focus on
human well-being. This book starts with a seminal contribution by
Sen on the "Ends and Means of Sustainability" delivered as a
keynote in 2000. All contributions to the book focus on the
difficulties that arise from a freedom-oriented view of
sustainability: they argue for taking note of the impact of human
life on nature, they question the meaning of intergenerational
justice when measured in the currency of "substantive freedoms"
(capabilities), they raise the issue of collective responsibility
and suggest ways to model and operationalize the capability
approach to sustainable development. The book presents the state of
the art concerning "The capability approach and sustainability"
while admitting that it is only a first contribution to a growing
field that deserves our attention: Defining what is to be sustained
and asking how it can be sustained. This book was published as a
special issue of the Journal of Human Development and Capabilities.
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