Sustainable Human Development

Biggeri, Mario; Ferrannini, Andrea

doi:10.1057/9781137380296

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“…Finally, the focus on territory as an important conversion factor is a rare investigation within the empirical studies on Sen's capability approach, and, at the same time, this element is coherent with Sen's framework where the individual is not a monad, but interacts with others and the environment. The territorialisation of the capability approach is a new promising research field as illustrated by Biggeri and Ferrannini (2014).…”

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Territorial and individual educational inequality: A Capability Approach analysis for Italy.

2018

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Section: Decomposition Regressions Ols Modelsmentioning

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Territorial and individual educational inequality: A Capability Approach analysis for Italy.

2018

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“…For this reason, Robeyns (2005) argued that capability studies should not only focus on personal abilities and aspirations, but also pay attention to institutional circumstances, such as social norms and traditions. Next to personal abilities and characteristics, these embedded collective structures greatly affect the way that people convert resources into capabilities (Biggeri & Ferrannini, 2014;Deneulin, et al, 2006;Frediani, 2021). If places are understood as productions of not only spatial but also particularly also social processes, many new conditions could be discovered inside the political-economic and institutional-historical processes that relate to people's access to and agency in cities (Frediani, 2021).…”

Section: Expanding Capabilities Through Collaborative Governancementioning

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Developing places for human capabilities

Janssen

2024

Architecture and the Built Environment

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This dissertation develops an understanding towards governing social sustainability goals into area-based urban development projects. It draws on Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach to construct a capability-centered evaluation of how institutionalized governance processes around these projects ultimately affect people’s freedoms to do the things they value in their urban living environment. Presenting case studies from the Netherlands, Sweden and Austria, the approach adopted in this dissertation reveals the unique ways in which different individuals interpret urban social sustainability and convert spatial resources into personal capabilities. The research uncovers the governance elements and institutional conditions around urban development projects that enable or constrain resource-to-capability conversions. It shows that governing social sustainability goals into urban development projects is a balancing act between reflexive governance action on the one hand, and an institutionalization of principles, actor responsibilities, and funding provision on the other hand. Ultimately, this dissertation argues that, to steer towards urban social sustainability, urban development practices can be improved by adopting an approach that is not merely focused on spatial improvements, but takes the equal expansion of human capabilities as its point of departure.

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“…For this reason, Robeyns (2005) argued that capability studies should not only focus on personal abilities and aspirations, but also pay attention to institutional circumstances, such as social norms and traditions. Next to personal abilities and characteristics, these embedded collective structures greatly affect the way that people convert resources into capabilities (Biggeri and Ferrannini, 2014;Deneulin et al, 2006;Frediani, 2021). If places are understood as productions of not only spatial but also particularly social processes, many new conditions could be discovered inside the political-economic and institutional-historical processes that relate to people's access to and agency in cities (Frediani, 2021).…”

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“…Following Sen's (1999) original intention, the capabilities approach sets out a normative principle for comparative exercises to spotlight the most severe inequalities in society, and to determine where to start to make them more just. It is particularly the connection between this critical outlook on local urban outcomes and the wider structural drivers that relate to them (Biggeri and Ferrannini, 2014;Frediani, 2021) that we think is central in a capability-centred governance of social sustainability in urban development. Indeed, the often-heard critique of trusting in local collaborative initiatives is that this ignores systematic issues and in fact creates a 'belief in better urban futures while perpetuating spatial and social injustices' (Cardoso et al, 2022(Cardoso et al, : 2644.…”

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Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development

2023

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Social sustainability’s implementation in urban development is a complex endeavour that demands alternative forms of governance. This article draws on the capabilities approach as an evaluative framework to better understand this implementation process. Through an in-depth case comparison of two Dutch urban development projects, the study analyses how collaborative governance situations (i.e. actors, activities and phases) relate to the expansions of resident capabilities in the urban areas. The findings present three principles for a ‘capability-centred governance’ of social sustainability in urban development: (1) integrate human logic into urban governance situations (2) balance strong goal commitment with experimentalist approaches and (3) institutionalise social sustainability implementation. The article concludes that social sustainability’s implementation requires a conceptualisation in which improvements in people’s lives are not seen as the self-evident consequences of a set of place-based policy interventions, but instead as a guiding principle that should continuously be reflected upon and learned from during the different phases of urban development processes.

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Sustainable Human Development

Cited by 39 publications

References 143 publications

Territorial and individual educational inequality: A Capability Approach analysis for Italy.

Territorial and individual educational inequality: A Capability Approach analysis for Italy.

Developing places for human capabilities

Governing capabilities, not places – how to understand social sustainability implementation in urban development

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