GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Capability Approach, Climate Justice, Food Security
3 Nov 2018
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How do movement demands mirror capabilities? what might need to be adapted/changed in a capabilities approach to address ej and cj? individual vs community-based approaches. Beyond a simple, one-dimensional approach to distribution and equity. Judge just arrangements not only in distributive terms, but in how those distributions affect our well- being, functioning, and ability to strive toward goals. What is injustice in a capabilities approach: Injustice is the limiting of capabilities that enable our functioning. Holland: because of the extent to which human capabilities are dependent on the natural environment, we should treat certain environmental entitlements as a matter of basic justice . The instrumental value of environment for human life. Mental health, emotional grief, stress freedom of movement. Ed page: the capability to experience life in an environment devoid of dangerous environmental impacts . Breena holland: a meta- capability that enables all others.
