In an interview with CIVIS (Europe's Civic University Alliance), University of the Witwatersrand International Relations Professor Malte Brosig shares his definition of polycrisis ("multiple interlinked crises, which condition each other creating a system in their ...

Nick King argues that industrial civilization has created many persistent and severe hazards (such as nuclear waste, methane leaking hydrocarbon infrastructure, contaminated sites, landfills, and deforested land), polycrises in the near future may significantly constrict ...

The authors examine domestic policymaking processes amidst polycrisis by tracing the Canadian government's development of its Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) during the Covid-19 pandemic. They argue that the process embodied three key best practices ...

This commentary introduces “Polycrisis in the Anthropocene,” a special issue of Global Sustainability journal. It elaborates upon three major contributions of the issue's lead article, “Global Polycrisis: The Causal Mechanisms of Crisis Entanglement,” and it ...

The authors translate polycrisis from a loose concept into a research agenda by providing the concept with a substantive definition, highlighting its value-added in comparison to related concepts, and developing a theoretical framework to explain ...

This 19th edition of the World Economic Forum's annual Global Risk Report is based on a risk perception survey conducted with nearly 1500 experts from academia, government, business, and civil society. Chapter 1 focuses on ...

Tim Sahay surveys the many crises covered in The Polycrisis newsletter over the last year and identifies four key shifts: northern countries are increasingly concerned with their own economic resilience but have not reformed the ...

Kyle Chayka considers different possible labels for "our chaotic historical moment, a term that we can use when we want to evoke the panicky incoherence of our lives of late." Contenders include artist and author ...

James Gustave Speth argues that the polycrisis has undermined earlier hopes for steady, gradual, progressive change, but is also stimulating new and unconventional visions for transformative change that should not be quickly dismissed.