Multiple global crises are worsening one another to produce what many policymakers, scholars, and commentators call a “polycrisis.” This website is a hub that helps this emerging community better understand and address the intersecting crises affecting humanity.
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Nonprofit Resilience in Polycrisis: Evidence from Czech NGOs Responding to the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis
This article examines how NGOs contribute to resilience in a polycrisis context, focusing on the response of Czech NGOs to the Ukrainian refugee crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a two-year mixed-methods study combining ...
Temporal Turbulence in the Polycrisis: Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section
This introduction to the special issue "Temporal Turbulence in the Polycrisis" examines how the contemporary polycrisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ongoing colonial legacies challenges conventional understandings of time and temporality. The authors argue ...
Nanostructured Interfaces Integrated with Unsupervised Intelligence to Mitigate Global Polycrisis Complexities
This review argues that nanostructured sensors can play an important role in addressing the polycrisis, including climate instability, antimicrobial resistance, pandemics, and emerging technological disruptions, but that their effectiveness is limited by the complexity and ...
From Crisology to Polycrisis: A Genealogy of the Concept of Polycrisis
The author traces the intellectual history of the concept of “polycrisis” from Edgar Morin’s original theory of crisology in the 1970s to its widespread contemporary use after 2022. Drawing on Morin’s primary texts, a systematic ...
Addressing the Polycrisis through Multi-Stakeholder Landscape Partnerships and the Rise of a Landscape Support System
In this seminar, Dr. Sara Scherr examines integrated landscape management (ILM) as a response to the ongoing polycrisis, arguing that it integrates healthy nature, regenerative economies, human well-being, and social solidarity in ways that empower ...
Theorising the Impacts of Polycrisis on Employment Relations: Complexity and Diversity at a Global Scale
This article argues that the polycrisis concepts provides an important lens for understanding contemporary employment relations. The authors suggest that the employment relationship is both a key site where the impacts of overlapping crises are ...
Why this Age of Polycrisis Demands a New Kind of Peace
The author argues that the contemporary polycrisis, characterized by escalating geopolitical tensions, ecological breakdown, growing inequality, and democratic fragility, requires a fundamental rethinking of peace. Rather than defining peace solely as the absence of war, ...
Global Nutrition Report (GNR)
The 2026 Global Nutrition Report examines how climate change, health challenges, economic pressures, conflict, and declining development financing are converging to threaten progress on global nutrition. Framing these interacting pressures as a polycrisis, the report ...
Polycrisis, Energy, and Climate Change
In this webinar hosted by the European Banking Institute in collaboration with e-axes forum, Ortwin Renn, AJ Gambir, and Jo Paisley explore how systemic risks emerge from complex interdependencies, non-linear dynamics, and cascading effects that ...
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Global Nutrition Report (GNR)
The 2026 Global Nutrition Report examines how climate change, health challenges, economic pressures, conflict, and declining development financing are converging to threaten progress on global nutrition. Framing these interacting pressures as a polycrisis, the report ...
The Polycrisis Needs a Sustainability- and Resilience-Oriented Paradigm Shift Through Innovation
This article examines the polycrisis as a framework for understanding and governing interconnected risks across social, ecological, economic, and political systems. Using a comparative analysis of the European Union and China, the authors explore how ...
Principles for Just and Effective Systemic Risk Governance
This article argues that addressing the polycrisis requires stronger approaches to systemic risk governance. The authors propose that effective governance must move beyond sector-specific responses and be guided by shared principles capable of addressing complex, ...
Try our guided tour of essential themes in the polycrisis discussion and key texts in the Polycrisis Resource Library.
This map charts the emerging community of scholars and practitioners working on polycrisis and closely related topics.