This groundbreaking new work establishes links between sustainable development, needs, well-being, and the capabilities approach that is central to human development and the United Nations Development Programme. By challenging the role of people in sustainability policy, this collection's...

1. Needs, capabilities and quality of life : refocusing sustainable development / Felix Rauschmayer, Ines Omann and Johannes Fruhmann -- 2. The overshadowing of needs / John O'Neill -- 3. Sustainability as a challenge to the capability approach / Ortrud Lessmann -- 4. From individual well-being...

Books reviewed: Masahiko Aoki, Toward a Comparative Institutional Analysis. Cambridge Albert Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon, Ronald Wintrobe (eds.), Political Extremism and Rationality Gerard Caprio, Patrick Honohan and Joseph E. Stiglitz (eds.), Financial Liberalization Richard N....