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Showing 1 to 20 of 131 for “"capability approach"”.
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Wellbeing impacts of sustainably designed community gardens: A capability approach
… framework for evaluating wellbeing - the Capability Approach - this research reports on the multiple impacts that the design of such spaces may have on the subjective wellbeing of site users. Qualitative research methods of data collection and analysis in five community garden sites in the …
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Transnational Migration -Development Nexus and the Capability Approach: Reframing the Linkages
… chapter develops a framework for applying the capability approach in migration-development research and identifies relevant capability gaps and the fourth chapter summarizes the study and discusses the theoretical implications of its findings.
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Exploring the importance of financial literacy within the Capability Approach framework
… the importance of financial literacy within the capability approach framework in the context of microfinance institutions’ clients in Indonesia, by raising four main issues. The first touches on financial capability and specifically focuses on its conceptualisation, predictors, and relationship …
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Living Together: A Capability Approach to Spatially Segregated Areas of Bogota
… quality of life among young adults. Based on a capability place-based approach to well-being, this research will attempt to conceptualise urban quality of life, look at how patterns of urban segregation affect urban functionings, and quantify to what extent microsegregation explains …
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Chinese private education reform through the lens of the capability approach
… and implemented at the school level. Using the capability approach as a conceptual framework, this research first argues that Chinese private education reform policies can be conceived of as capability-enhancing with the aim to promote four types of education capabilities: practical …
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Understanding drivers of deforestation using socio‐psychological behavioural theory and the capability approach
… social‐psychological behavioural theory with the Capability Approach to understand and structure drivers of deforestation and forest degradation (DD). Using a case study in Guatemala, I developed a proof of concept by analysing questionnaire responses from land users using a statistical data …
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Amartya Sen's capability approach to equality : is it capable of accommodating human diversity?
The development of Amartya Sen's capability approach to equality was motivated (at least in part) by the shortcomings which he perceived in the egalitarian models presented by his predecessors; namely, John Rawls and utilitarians. Sen's greatest criticism of these theories was that they failed to …
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Exploring Performance Ethnography to illuminate mobile banking Capabilities in Western Kenya: Capability Approach Study
… Bukhalalire sub-location in western Kenya. Using Capability Approach as the guiding theoretical framework, this research project answers Denzin’s (2003) call to performance, a performance which contributes to a more “enlightened and involved citizenship”. It is “revolutionary” in that it …
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Using Sen's Capability Approach to Understand Students' Vocational Education and Training Experience in China
… study adopts a bottom-up, human development approach to foreground issues of agency, identity, and well-being within the VET system. Informed by Sen’s Capability Approach, this study examines the trajectories of Chinese VET students to reveal the disconnect between policy intent and lived …
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Injustice and discrimination through assimilationist policies and education against Native American students: a capability approach
… Theory and may be addressed through Nussbaum’s Capability Approach to allow Indigenous students the opportunity to avail of an educational experience in parity with non-Native peers. This study will examine the factors that have led to the discrimination experienced by Indigenous students within …
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GOVERNING SHARING PLATFORMS COOPERATIVELY: ESSAYS IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY AND THE CAPABILITY APPROACH
Il presente elaborato intende contribuire, sotto forma di una collezione di quattro articoli tematici, ad una delle principali questioni che caratterizzano l’attuale discorso sulla sostenibilità: come porre rimedio agli aspetti più negativi del cosiddetto “capitalismo di piattaforma” al fine di …
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Catholic Social Teaching and The Capability Approach to Human Development: A Critical Analysis and Constructive Proposal
… Nations Development Programme, which adopts the Capability Approach as its evaluative framework for measuring individual well being. I propose that Catholic Social Teaching can protect the Capability Approach from its potential to lean towards individualism through the inclusion of the principles …
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Who will guard the guardians themselves? : contributions of the capability approach to capacity development evaluation frameworks
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-118)
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Energy Justice from the Bottom Up: A Capability Approach to Community Acceptance of Wind Energy in Southern Mexico
… three lenses: the energy justice framework, the capability approach, and power analysis. These lenses help examine how shifting actions and power relations maintain or transform conflicts around RETs in developing contexts. This study looks at the case of wind energy siting in three Indigenous …
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A capability approach to examining the experiences and perceptions of Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) among homeless women in Cape Town
… women in Cape Town (South Africa) using the capability approach. As a result, the study was guided by a qualitative research design. Nonprobability sampling was used in recruiting participants. In-depth interviews were conducted with 16 homeless women who experienced period poverty and …
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