Capability Approach and Sustainability

Ortrud Lessmann is a senior researcher at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg. An economist by training, her research interest lies in the overlap of economics, philosophy, philosophy of education and sociology. Currently she is conducting a research project on the conception of justice and sustainability on the basis of the Capability Approach.Felix Rauschmayer leads the research field of sustainability policy at the Department for Environmental Politics at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig. An Ecological Economist by training, his research interest lies in the construction of interdisciplinary models for transdisciplinary research in different fields of relevance to sustainability transitions.

• 1. The Capability Approach and Sustainability Felix Rauschmayer and Ortrud Lessmann 2. The Ends and Means of Sustainability Amartya Sen 3. Nussbaum’s Capability Approach and Future Generations Krushil Watene 4. Sustainable Development: Does the Capability Approach have Anything to Offer? Outlining a Legitimate Freedom Approach Andrew Crabtree 5. Putting Sustainability into Sustainable Human Development Wouter Peeters, Jo Dirix and Sigrid Sterckx 6. Sustainable Human Development and the Capability Approach: Integrating Environment, Responsibility and Collective Agency Jérôme Pelenc, Minkieba Kevin Lompo, Jérôme Ballet and Jean-Luc Dubois 7. Re-conceptualizing Sustainable Development on the Basis of the Capability Approach: A Model and Its Difficulties Ortrud Lessmann and Felix Rauschmayer 8. A Sustainability-Fitting Interpretation of the Capability Approach: Integrating the Natural Dimension by Employing Feedback Loops Emily Schultz, Marius Christen, Lieske Voget-Kleschin and Paul Burger 9. Studying Well-being and its Environmental Impacts: A Case Study of Minimum Income Receivers in Finland Tuuli Hirvilammi, Senja Laakso, Michael Lettenmeier and Satu Lähteenoja 10. Human Development and Sustainability Eric Neumayer