Beyond Sustainable Development: Civilizational Justice as a Post-Growth Global Framework
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- Hamdy Ahmed
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Despite decades of global commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ecological degradation and socioeconomic inequalities continue to intensify, revealing structural limitations within the dominant development paradigm. This paper introduces, to the best of our knowledge, the concept of Civilizational Justice as a novel integrative framework that reconfigures the relationship between humans, nature, and power through four interconnected pillars: post-growth economics, rights of nature, participatory democracy, and a culture of sufficiency and solidarity. Drawing on a critical synthesis of interdisciplinary literature and global case studies, the paper identifies three central paradoxes within sustainable development: green growth, carbon markets, and well-intentioned sustainability interventions that generate unintended injustices. It argues that these paradoxes are not anomalies but systemic outcomes of a growth-oriented model. Moving beyond critique, the paper proposes Civilizational Justice as a comprehensive alternative paradigm and outlines a forward-looking research agenda. The framework offers actionable pathways for advancing equitable, ecological, and democratic transformations across diverse global contexts.
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Hamdy Ahmed. Beyond Sustainable Development: Civilizational Justice as a Post-Growth Global Framework. 2026. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6548178
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