A Legitimate Freedom Approach to Sustainability
Sen, Scanlon and the Inadequacy of the Human Development Index
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7990896 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andy Crabtree (0000-0001-5553-6767, Roskilde University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Social Quality (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-0344 • E-ISSN: 1757-0352 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ijsq.2012.020103 |
| OpenAlex | W2323524095 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 6 |
Although the capability approach has had a tremendous impact on the development debate, it has had little to say about sustainable development. As several Human Development Reports have maintained, the last twenty years' gains in human development are not sustainable. The failure to include an integrate sustainability into the Human Development Index would thus give the wrong policy message. Drawing on the works of Amartya Sen and Thomas Scanlon, this article argues that sustainable development can be seen as a process of increasing legitimate freedoms, the freedoms that others cannot reasonably reject. Thus, Sen's vision of development as freedom is amended to suggest limits to freedoms. Forms of development which are not sustainable can be reasonably rejected due, at least, to the harm and blighting entailed. Based on this, it is argued that at country level of comparison the Human Development Index should be combined with the Ecological Footprint to reflect sustainability, and that the Human Development Reports should give way to Sustainable Development Reports
Biology · Environmental ethics · Index (typography · Political science · Sustainability · Computer Science · Human Rights and Development · Philosophy · Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy · Ecology
Clarification
Which Future for the Capability Approach?
Critiques and Debates
Core Ideas and the Framework
Introduction
Wasted GDP in the USA
Towards a framework articulating justice and development for evaluating just transition policies
What could ‘mindful capabilities’ be? A comment on Mabsout's ‘mindful capability’ (2015)
Mindful capability
Developing the global North
Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice
Rethinking Human Development and/as Human Security for the Anthropocene
The Quality of Society and Life Satisfaction in China
Parallel Leisure Sport Activities Diversity with Economic, Social and Human Development Indicators
Sustainable Development
A Sustainability-Fitting Interpretation of the Capability Approach
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |