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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Political Organizing and Global Catastrophic Risk
The author argues that achieving major policy wins on global catastrophic risk requires political organising: the process by which groups of citizens come together to build the capacity for sustained, sophisticated civic advocacy. Drawing on ...
The Global Justice Report: A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary
The Global Justice Report proposes a fully quantified plan for grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability, tracing an economically and ecologically consistent transition path from 2026 to 2100. The authors argue that reconciling ...
The Impact of Polycrisis on GPNs—a Focus on the EU’s Trade Policy Response to the Climate Crisis
This paper explores how policy responses to the polycrisis seek to reshape Global Production Networks, encouraging new forms of decoupling and recoupling. The author focuses on the EU’s trade policy responses to the climate crisis, ...
Anticipatory Skill and Structural Biases of a Major Global Risk Assessment
The authors evaluate the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Reports (GRRs) from 2006–2024 by comparing survey-based risk likelihoods with a multi-decadal database of national shocks, and by tracing how surveys are translated into the reports' ...
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 ...
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Anticipatory Skill and Structural Biases of a Major Global Risk Assessment
The authors evaluate the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Reports (GRRs) from 2006–2024 by comparing survey-based risk likelihoods with a multi-decadal database of national shocks, and by tracing how surveys are translated into the reports' ...
Can We Eat Our Way Out of Polycrisis?
The author argues that food system transformation represents one of the most connected and pliable nexus interventions available for navigating today's polycrisis, drawing on historical research into the Black Death era — a polycrisis-like period ...
Ten New Insights in Climate Science 2025
This paper presents ten recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, spanning Earth system processes, climate impacts, and mitigation action. The record-warm years of 2023–2024 are explained by a combination of long-term ...
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.
