The politically influential idea of sustainable development is closely tied to the concept of inter- and intragenerational justice without clarifying these concepts and their relationship. In developing an account of human development, the capability approach conceptualizes parts of...

Der Capability-Ansatz (CA) wurde bislang in der Nachhaltigkeitsliteratur kaum rezipiert, ist aber generell geeignet, die Frage nach dem Gegenstandsbereich Nachhaltiger Entwicklung (NE) im Einklang mit der Brundtland-Definition zu beantworten. Dabei erweitert er das Verständnis von Wohlergehen...

This paper sketches a re-conceptualisation of sustainable development (SD) on the basis of the capability approach (CA). The notion sustainable development was developed as a compromise in a political process and has been re-interpreted (some say: diluted) again and again in the last 20 years....