School of Science, Technology & Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast, Building H1, Sippy Downs, Maroochydore, QLD, Australia.
College of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Centenary Building, Hobart, Australia.
Ambio. 2022 Apr;51(4):914-925. doi: 10.1007/s13280-021-01581-3. Epub 2021 Jul 4.
Sen's Capability Approach is one of the most significant theoretical contributions to welfare analysis across a range of disciplines. A part of the literature argues that its conceptual linear flow-from resources to 'functionings', which result in well-being-potentially ignores more complex relations with the feedback loops where a single item could be viewed as having a different role by different people, in different contexts. We explore perceptions of existing feedback relationships in interviews with 74 women from nine seaweed farming villages in Indonesia, engaged in two distinct activities: seaweed farming and artisanal seaweed processing. We find that capability sets required for farming and for processing are distinct and in both cases we observe feedback loops. Several factors, notably social networks and transportation (motorbikes), were mentioned in almost all contexts indicating that not all resources are of equal 'value' and might yield different levels of well-being.
森的能力方法是福利分析跨学科领域的最重要理论贡献之一。有一部分文献认为，它的概念线性流程——从资源到“功能”，进而产生幸福感——可能忽略了与反馈回路更复杂的关系，在反馈回路中，同一个项目可能被不同的人在不同的背景下视为具有不同的角色。我们通过对印度尼西亚九个海藻养殖村的 74 名妇女进行访谈，探讨了对现有反馈关系的看法，这些妇女从事着两种截然不同的活动：海藻养殖和海藻加工。我们发现，养殖和加工所需的能力集是不同的，在这两种情况下我们都观察到了反馈回路。在几乎所有情况下，都提到了一些因素，特别是社会网络和交通工具（摩托车），这表明并非所有资源都具有同等的“价值”，并且可能产生不同水平的幸福感。
