Sustainable development : capabilities, needs, and well-being / / edited by Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann, and Johannes Fruhmann

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.9/27
• Soggetto topico: Sustainable development; Economic development
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: FruhmannJohannes OmannInes RauschmayerFelix <1967->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Sustainable Development; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of contributors; Foreword and acknowledgements; Executive summary: Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann and Johannes Frühmann; Preface: the death and rebirth of economics: Manfred Max-Neef; 1. Needs, capabilities and quality of life: refocusing sustainable development: Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann and Johannes Frühmann; 2. The overshadowing of needs: John O'Neill; 3. Sustainability as a challenge to the capability approach: Ortrud Leßmann ; 4. From individual well-being to sustainable development: A path where psychologists and economists meet: Sophie Spillemaeckers, Luc Van Ootegem and Gerben J. Westerhof5. The life-chances concept: A sociological perspective in equity and sustainable development: Paul-Marie Boulanger ; 6. Human needs frameworks and their contribution as analytical instruments in sustainable development policymaking: Ivonne Cruz ; 7. A plea for the self-aware sustainability researcher: learning from business transformation processes for transitions to sustainable development: Felix Rauschmayer, Tell Muenzing and Johannes Frühmann 8. Transition towards sustainable development: Which tensions emerge? How do we deal with them?: Ines Omann and Felix Rauschmayer ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: <P>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.</P><P>Even though the word 'needs' is central to the most popular definition of sustainable devel
• Titolo autorizzato: Sustainable development
• ISBN: 0-415-51681-1; 9786613832634; 1-136-88677-X; 1-283-52018-4; 0-203-83974-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465437803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics