GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Martha Nussbaum, David Schlosberg, Global Environmental Politics

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT3995
• Professor: Professor David Schlosberg

Document Summary

David schlosberg and david carruthers, indigenous struggles, environmental justice, and community capabilities global environmental politics 10, no. Rosie day, a capabilities approach to environmental justice. routledge handbook of. For this week of class we will be examining how capability-based conceptualizations of justice relate to environmental concerns. Rosie day, a capabilities approach to environmental justice. The capabilities approach was developed as a way of conceptualizing and assessing social and economic development. Founders are indian economist amartya sen, and american philosopher martha. Their main aim was to change the terms in which we think about human wellbeing and in which we assess deprivation, equality, and ultimately claims of justice and injustice. Capabilities are what we are focusing on if we ask the question, what is each person able to do and to be?" (nussbaum 2011: 18). She argues that in pursuing justice (and in any practical endeavour to improve human development) it is necessary to distinguish between capabilities which are trivial.