Title: Innovating in the Link between Strong Sustainability and the Capability Approach: The role of Critical Natural Capital in Human Development
Abstract: Sen's Capability Approach has radically re-oriented the vision of development, from the obsession of an aggregate, ill-defined level of wealth towards a rigorously defined notion of freedom that builds on the ideals of social justice and human dignity. His recent book on the Idea of Justice (2009) opens new insight on how to integrate environmental concern in the Capability Approach, going further than his previous writings and speeches (Sen 2000). However, it still suffers from several weaknesses related to the definition of sustainability. This paper is a proposal to fill this gap and build a clear concern regarding the integration of the ecological dimension within the Capability Approach