The possibilities of a socioecology in Amarthya Sen

Abstract

This paper discusses the notion of sustentability based on Amarthya Sen’s discussion about human development and quality of life, seeking to reorganize the role and the value of the human being among the challenges of development. The text tries to reflect about the contribution for a sociecology in Sen’s works, and of the presumed intelectual sense of being an antidote to the economic approaches that codified nature as “the kingdom of goods” and at the same time surrounded the human component with a profound lack of meaning and explicative value.

Keywords

• sustentability
• development
• socioecology