Ahmed, N.M. (2025). “‘Planetary phase shift’ as a new systems framework to navigate the evolutionary transformation of human civilization.” Foresight, 27(2), 240-266. DOI: 10.1108/FS-02-2024-0025.
Peer-reviewed synthesis integrating Holling’s adaptive cycle with phase transition theory across the five foundational sectors of civilization’s production system (energy, transport, food, information, materials). Demonstrates that multiple global crises are symptoms of the final stages of industrial civilization’s life-cycle, and that all five sectors are simultaneously entering phase transition. The framework corrects Arbib and Seba’s technology disruption analysis for its colonial blind spots. For the Emancipation Architecture, Ahmed’s paper is the peer-reviewed empirical grounding for the Termination trajectory in the Three Futures framework.