Aus dem Vorwort: Absicht dieser Beiträge ist es, einer Sozialplanung den Weg zu weisen, deren Ziel es ist, soziale Gerechtigkeit für die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung in Entwicklungsländern zu verwirklichen.

Energy poverty, long considered a problem limited to developing countries only, is now widely acknowledged as a challenge for advanced OECD countries as well. How energy poverty is perceived depends on the conceptualization and assessment of the underlying phenomena: inappropriately high costs...

Notions such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice are integral to evaluating social progress and developing policies. One increasingly influential way to think about these concepts is the capability approach, a theoretical framework which was pioneered by the philosopher and economist...