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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The Los Angeles Fires, Polycrisis, & How to Live in Collapse | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #2
Jesse Damiani analyzes the Los Angeles fires, emphasizing their devastating impact on the city's infrastructure and communities. He argues that these types of unprecedented weather events are symptoms of a broader "ecological overshoot," which he ...
Top 10 2025 Global Disaster Risks
Andrew Busch examines the top global disaster risks for 2025, highlighting their interconnected nature, the compounding effects they may have, and potential strategies for effective risk management.
The polycrisis is here, and system dynamics can help: a call to action
The authors call for action from the System Dynamics (SD) community to address global polycrisis and leverage SD's strengths in modelling complexity, feedback loops, and nonlinear dynamics. They emphasize five key features of the SD ...
Top Risks 2025
The report presents Eurasia Group's annual forecast of the political risks that are most likely to emerge in 2025.
Chartbook 343 : Polycrisis & the Critique of Capitalocentrism
Adam Tooze explores the concept of polycrisis as a framework for understanding the complex and interconnected challenges we face in the modern era. He critiques the reliance on traditional social theories from the 20th century, ...
How Local Organizations Build Dynamic Decision-Making Capacities During a Global Polycrisis
The authors examine how decision-making evolves against the background of the transgressing and overlapping nature of today’s crisis phenomena, using crisis management and dynamic decision-making approaches.
Chartbook 330: Africa & Absolute Poverty in an Era of Polycrisis.
Adam Tooze examines the stagnation in global poverty reduction, emphasizing the challenges of a polycrisis context. He highlights that, after significant declines, progress in reducing absolute poverty has stalled, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where the ...
Global Polycrisis can be Tackled by Institutional Innovation Towards Democratic Efficacy
Hanno Scholtz argues that the world's polycrisis is caused by an outdated democratic model of "partitioning representation," where citizens vote periodically and are represented by governments in global affairs. He proposes "Civil Democracy," a new ...
Achieving Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Ecohealth: Insights from a Rodent-Borne Disease Project in a Polycrisis Era
The authors explore the challenges of addressing "wicked problems," such as emerging zoonotic diseases, and the potential of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research (ITDR) to tackle them. Using a case study on rodent-borne diseases (RBDs) in ...
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The Thematic Assessment Report on Interlinkages Among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health
This report explores the interconnected crises and challenges of biodiversity loss, water availability and quality, food insecurity, health risks, and climate change, focusing on their interlinkages. It assesses current and future trends, emphasizing biodiversity and ...
Tipping Points, Cascading Impacts, and Interacting Risks in the Earth System: Proceedings of a Workshop
This book summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop convened by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on January 17–19, 2024. The workshop focused on understanding, predicting, and preparing for climate tipping ...
The Changing Economic Geography of Companies and Regions in Times of Risk, Uncertainty, and Crisis
This book examines how uncertainties, crises, and risks transform the spatial arrangements of companies and regions. It explores key concepts such as global value chains, production networks, and regional resilience, illustrated through case studies from ...
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.