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  1. May 12 CfP Deadline: “Environmental Citizenship and Individual Responsibility for Global Environmental Problems (EC.IRGEP)”

    …ligations. In C. Heyward & D. Roser (Eds.), Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World. Oxford University Press. Maltais, A. (2013). Radically non-ideal climate politics and the obligation to at least vote green. Environmental Values, 22(5), 589–608. Raterman, T. (2012). Bearing the Weight of the World: On the Extent of an Individual’s Environmental Responsibility, Environmental Values, 21(4), 417–436. Schinkel, A. (2011). Causal and Moral Responsibilit…

  2. HDCA-SPONSORED WEBINAR: Capabilities and Covid-19

    …ng the ethical issues relating to justice and global ageing. Recently, the World Health Organisation relied on Sridhar’s conception of health in defining health ageing for their World Report on Ageing and Health. Sophie Mitra is Professor in the Department of Economics, co-director of the Disability Studies Program and founding director of the Research Consortium on Disability at Fordham University. Her research interests relate to disability, hea…

  3. In Memoriam – Stephan Klasen

    …Stephan will be missed inconsolably by his wife Christine, four children, Lukas, Nicolas, Sophia, and Jeremias, and by innumerable friends, students and colleagues, the world over. But the greatest loss is for the better world that he sought unrelentingly. – Sanjay G. Reddy        …

  4. COVID-19 Reflections: A Global Capability Crisis

    …ould last for many years. It may and should also be an opportunity for the world to reassess the freedoms we should value and the steps we need to make development truly sustainable and inclusive but in either case, the themes of the capability approach (Nussbaum and Sen (1993), Anand and Piketty (2011)) provide a rich source of ideas on which researchers and policy-makers can draw. What consumers and workers can do has been subject to a tremendou…

  5. HDCA WEBINAR: The State of the Union: Reflections on Democracy and Division in and beyond the United States of America

    …niversity of the Andes (Colombia). He has been a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank, USAID, the World Bank, and the International Center for Transitional Justice. David was the founder and former president of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA). Among his numerous publications are “Toward Development Ethics,” The Ethics of Global Development: Agency, Capability, and Deliberative Democracy, “Reckoning with Past…

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