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BOOK REVIEWS MacGregor, Sherilyn, ed. 2017. Routledge Handbook of Gender and Environment.New York: Routledge. Merchant, Carolyn. 1980. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. San Francisco: Harper and Row. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). 2012. Powerful Synergies: Gender Equality, Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability.New York:United Nations Development Programme. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 2016. Global Gender and Environment Outlook. Nairobi: United Nations Environment Programme. Women’s Major Group. 2012. “Rio + 20: From the Future We Want to the Future We Need. Final Statement on the Outcome Document.” UN Conference on Sustainable Development, June 24. Wellbeing, Freedom, and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined,by Ingrid Robeyns. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2017. 256 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-78374-421-3 (pbk.). US$19.95. ISBN-13: 978-1-78374-422-0 (hbk.). US$35.95. PDF and HTML versions available gratis. Amartya Sen initially introduced a focus on capabilities in the context of debates about how to interpret a normative commitment to distributive equality (Sen 1982). Not long thereafter, he began arguing that what people are really able to do and to be – their “capability set” or “capabilities” – can be taken, more generally, to capture an important form of freedom (Sen 1982, 1995, 1999a). As such, he argued,