TY - JOUR
T1 - Human flourishing
T2 - An integrated systems approach to development post 2030
AU - Zwitter, Andrej
AU - Bloch, Carole
AU - Ellis, George
AU - Hecht, Richard
AU - Hernandez, Ariel
AU - Hoffman, Wakanyi
AU - Rickles, Dean
AU - Sukhomlinova, Victoria
AU - Ura, Karma
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 The Authors
PY - 2025/1
Y1 - 2025/1
N2 - This perspective article explores foundational shifts required for the conceptualization of future principles and goals to inform the starting re-negotiation process of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) post-2030. Based on a multi-stakeholder consultation and workshop-based focus groups, this article emphasizes integrating non-material aspects of human flourishing, such as cultural, psycho-social, and community-based aspects, in addition to the current focus on material conditions (as represented in the SDGs). Given regional, cultural, religious and other specificities, these non-material aspects need to be based on localized goals and indicators that follow global principles. This in turn, we argue, requires the development of a multi-level governance framework to capture the full spectrum of societal health and human experience allowing for both top-down principle-based governance as well as bottom-up goal and indicator development. Key recommendations include: localized implementation by leveraging local and indigenous knowledge, and fostering adaptable development models rooted in local realities and global principles. This flourishing-based development approach aims to harmonize material conditions with non-material aspects of human flourishing as a process oriented integrated systems approach.
AB - This perspective article explores foundational shifts required for the conceptualization of future principles and goals to inform the starting re-negotiation process of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) post-2030. Based on a multi-stakeholder consultation and workshop-based focus groups, this article emphasizes integrating non-material aspects of human flourishing, such as cultural, psycho-social, and community-based aspects, in addition to the current focus on material conditions (as represented in the SDGs). Given regional, cultural, religious and other specificities, these non-material aspects need to be based on localized goals and indicators that follow global principles. This in turn, we argue, requires the development of a multi-level governance framework to capture the full spectrum of societal health and human experience allowing for both top-down principle-based governance as well as bottom-up goal and indicator development. Key recommendations include: localized implementation by leveraging local and indigenous knowledge, and fostering adaptable development models rooted in local realities and global principles. This flourishing-based development approach aims to harmonize material conditions with non-material aspects of human flourishing as a process oriented integrated systems approach.
KW - Human flourishing
KW - Integrated systems approach
KW - Multi-level governance
KW - Non-material conditions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85215839637&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100236
DO - 10.1016/j.esg.2025.100236
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85215839637
SN - 2589-8116
VL - 23
JO - Earth System Governance
JF - Earth System Governance
M1 - 100236
ER -