Beyond 2030: Rethinking the SDGs through Systems, Power, and Responsibility

The SDGs are often read as seventeen separate goals. But human life is not separate.

Beyond 2030 offers a systems reading of sustainable development—showing how poverty, inequality, ecological decline, institutional weakness, and responsibility are connected.
Rather than asking only whether indicators are improving, this book asks what systems are producing harm, who has the power to change them, and what responsibility must follow.
Organized through five interconnected systems—Human Security, Human Capability and Equality, Economic and Infrastructural Systems, Planetary Life-Support Systems, and Public Power and Collective Action—this book invites readers to move beyond fragmented problem-solving toward systemic understanding, differentiated responsibility, and just transition.

For scholars, students, policymakers, development practitioners, organizational leaders, and readers concerned with the future of sustainability, Beyond 2030 provides both a conceptual map and a practical method for thinking beyond targets and indicators.

The future is not waiting beyond 2030. It is being produced now.