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  1. Latin American Network: Introduction

    Download the latest bibliography of Spanish-language publications on human development and the Capability Approach (as of Dec. 14, 2021) If you would like to add a new reference to the bibliography, please click here The Human Development and Capability Association Latin American Network (HDCA-LA) is a multidisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners with two main broad objectives. First, to produce high-quality and policy-relevant academ…

  2. Webinar Discussion: Democratising Measurement: A Case Study from Well-Being Public Policy.

    …ed for applying coproduction in value-laden policy domains. Our results indicate that ‘off the shelf’ theories and measures of value-laden concepts developed by experts often require substantial translation and tailoring to be suitable to applied policy. This underscores the need to develop more ‘bottom up’ approaches to measurement. Speakers: Anna Alexandrova is a Reader in Philosophy of Science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Scie…

  3. WEBINAR: From Human Development to Sustainable Human Development

    …jumpstart that transformation. Furthermore, the Report introduces a new indicator which aims to reflect the interconnectedness of the environment and human development, namely the Planetary pressures-adjusted Human Development Index. This session will take as its starting point the Report and ask what role the human development approach can play in framing future debates and policy; but also, looking forward, ask where the approach needs to streng…

  4. JUST PUBLISHED! The Cambridge Handbook of the Capability Approach

    …as new research from leading scholars in this increasingly influential multi-disciplinary field, including the pioneers of capability research, Martha C. Nussbaum and Amartya Sen. Incorporating both approachable introductory chapters and more in-depth analysis relating to the central philosophical, conceptual and theoretical issues of capability research, this handbook also includes analytical and measurement tools, as well as policy approaches wh…

  5. ESPAnet 2022 conference – Stream: Citizen Social Science and Social Innovation: New Practices for the Local Evidence-Based Social Policies

    …Social Policies” Timeline: Deadline for abstracts submission: 4 April Notification of acceptance: 13 May Deadline for papers submission: 15 August Conference: 14-16 September Available Presentation Forms: in-person or online; posters and papers. Abstract Submission (max 500 words): https://www.espanet-vienna2022.org/call-for-abstracts Stream Convenors: – Andrzej Klimczuk, Ph.D. (SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland) – Egle Butkeviciene,…

  6. The right to science | UN general comment | Ideas for collaboration

    …o the World Congress for the Freedom of Scientific Research and to the publication of the respective Index (here: https://www.freedomofresearch.org/research-and-self-determination-index/ ). The current pandemic is giving us additional impulse to promote a more visible and prominent debate on the ‘right to science’ as human right: a right that, we feel, matters today possibly more than it did so far. The link between this right and human developmen…

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