Sustainable Development: Capabilities, Needs, And Well-being -

Paperback / softback. New. 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. Even though the word 'needs' is central to the most popular definition of sustainable development, the concepts of needs and capabilities remain within the debate on human development, without going further into intergenerational justice or environmental protection. The discussion of needs reaches non-academics in a more direct way than talking about abstract thresholds, substitutability and other issues dear to academic debate on sustainability. This collection links… Read More

Routledge, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 8.98x6.06x0.55 inches.

Routledge, 2012. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 192 pages. 8.98x6.06x0.55 inches.