In the capability approach, there is a consideration about initial distribution ofwealth for assessing well-being, that permits to include individual’s own previousexperience in his income trajectories. Therefore, analysis of social costs or benefitsof different policies can be measured different from utilitarian way. In this paper, is analyzed the application of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum proposalsabout adaptive preferences and the capabilities approach.After six years of crisis in the international coffee market, real income of theproducers decreased drastically. Many proposals exist to made good policies forimprove the welfare of peruvian coffee producers in this context, like it is madein other producing countries. The contribution of this paper is the identificationof adaptive preferences for coffee producers from Peru and Colombia, andanalyzing the basis of information that...

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a tool applied ever more frequently in developed countries to take on board environmental impacts in a timely way so asto impact on decision making. lt is applied mainly to megaprojects, plans, programs and policies, even though there is as yet no consensus agreement as to its definition, its methodologies or the steps required to implement it. SEA is not just an Environmental lmpact Assessment (EIA) of plans, programs and policies, since this is an instrument for which there is considerable experience and consensus as to its use, with steps such as screening and scoping of projects performed by specialists worldwide. In Peru, the EIA is normally considered to be a document that is evaluated by the environmental authority where a project is to be undertaken to ensure that it does no significant harm to the environment. In developed countries, b...

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a tool applied ever more frequently in developed countries to take on board environmental impacts in a timely way so asto impact on decision making. lt is applied mainly to megaprojects, plans, programs and policies, even though there is as yet no consensus agreement as to its definition, its methodologies or the steps required to implement it. SEA is not just an Environmental lmpact Assessment (EIA) of plans, programs and policies, since this is an instrument for which there is considerable experience and consensus as to its use, with steps such as screening and scoping of projects performed by specialists worldwide. In Peru, the EIA is normally considered to be a document that is evaluated by the environmental authority where a project is to be undertaken to ensure that it does no significant harm to the environment. In developed countries, b...

In the capability approach, there is a consideration about initial distribution ofwealth for assessing well-being, that permits to include individual’s own previousexperience in his income trajectories. Therefore, analysis of social costs or benefitsof different policies can be measured different from utilitarian way. In this paper, is analyzed the application of Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum proposalsabout adaptive preferences and the capabilities approach. After six years of crisis in the international coffee market, real income of theproducers decreased drastically. Many proposals exist to made good policies forimprove the welfare of peruvian coffee producers in this context, like it is madein other producing countries. The contribution of this paper is the identificationof adaptive preferences for coffee producers from Peru and Colombia, andanalyzing the basis of information that...