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Evaluates the capability of humans to simultaneously develop and achieve sustainability
Applies theory to scientific, social, and policy structures, including ecology, ethics, and the Sustainable Development Goals
Challenges existing literature to consider human rights in discussion with sustainable development
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
“This book contains insightful accounts of today’s most pressing human challenges, while also filling a critical gap in the capability approach (CA) on sustainable development, particularly related to intergenerational justice. … the book is a must-read for understanding development, sustainability, and climate change politics, particularly offering thoughtful discussions on how these concepts and actions attend to the most marginalised. To move forward, the book proposes integrating the CA with human rights language and a human security perspective.” (Paola Velasco-Herrejón, Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, June 19, 2022)
“Sustainability, Capability, and Human Security encourages us to reflect on how we could construct a theoretical framework for sustainable human development based on the Capability Approach. It significantly advances the debates on this subject and constitutes a benchmark for those who would like to prolong them.” (Jerome Ballet, Ecological Economics, Vol. 184, 2021)
“The ongoing ecological crises, in particular climate change and biodiversity loss, are of great importance when thinking about human development for all – including for those who have not yet been born. The contributions in this volume ask what, if anything, ideas from the capability approach, the human development paradigm, and arguments about human rights and human security can contribute to advancing our thinking on ecological sustainability. These are important questions and the authors of this volume are to be applauded for putting these questions center stage, and for making significant contributions to advancing our knowledge in this area.” (Ingrid Robeyns, Chair, Ethics of Institutions, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands)“This book taps the enormous potential of the capability and human security approaches to address tensions between environmental and human priorities concealed within the phrase “sustainable development.” The authors include leading thinkers within the capability and human security approaches. Their essays are highly thought-provoking.” (Jay Drydyk, Professor of Philosophy, Carleton University, Canada)
Editors and Affiliations
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Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
Andrew Crabtree
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainability, Capabilities and Human Security
Editors: Andrew Crabtree
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38905-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38904-8Published: 29 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-38907-9Published: 28 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-38905-5Published: 28 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 184
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development and Sustainability, Development Theory, Development Policy, Development and Health