A Note on Sustainability Economics and the Capability Approach

Damien Bazin, Jerome Ballet, Jean-Luc Dubois () and François-Régis Mahieu ()
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Jean-Luc Dubois: IRD - UMI RESILIENCES - Unité mixte internationale Résiliences - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Centre ivoirien de recherches économiques et sociales (CIRES) - Université de Cocody
François-Régis Mahieu: IRD - UMI RESILIENCES - Unité mixte internationale Résiliences - IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - Centre ivoirien de recherches économiques et sociales (CIRES) - Université de Cocody

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Abstract: Sustainability economics attempts to reconcile efficiency criteria with those of social justice in a context of environmental concern. This article aims at highlighting the fact that the Capability Approach offers an interesting perspective for the foundation of sustainability in economics. It primarily focuses on the major role that freedom brings as a normative basis for well-being and adds new insights for our understanding of human and environment relationship through the study of the constraints and opportunities that affect the individual. The final section of this article asks us to reconsider our Nature conservation choices by acknowledging the restrictive impact that they have on individual freedoms.

Keywords: Sustainability Economics; Capability Approach; Social Precautionary Principle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-09-15
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Published in Ecological Economics, 2011, 70 (11), pp.1831-1834. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.05.009⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2011.05.009

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