Polycrisis Resource Library

The Polycrisis Resource Library is a growing collection of media that help to understand polycrisis, develop strategies to address polycrisis, and build a field of polycrisis analysis.

Nonprofit Resilience in Polycrisis: Evidence from Czech NGOs Responding to the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Monica Lea, Tara Kolar Bryan and Vladimir Hyánek

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…

Temporal Turbulence in the Polycrisis: Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section

Erin Fitz-Henry and Christine Winter

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…

Nanostructured Interfaces Integrated with Unsupervised Intelligence to Mitigate Global Polycrisis Complexities

Vishal Chaudhary, Somphoach Saichaemchan, Pradeep Bhadola and Ajeet Kaushik

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…

From Crisology to Polycrisis: A Genealogy of the Concept of Polycrisis

Mikael Mesnil Duprat

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…

Addressing the Polycrisis through Multi-Stakeholder Landscape Partnerships and the Rise of a Landscape Support System

Sara Scherr

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…

Theorising the Impacts of Polycrisis on Employment Relations: Complexity and Diversity at a Global Scale

Tony Dobbins, Fang Lee Cooke, Rea Prouska, Steve Williams and Sean O'Brady

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…

Why this Age of Polycrisis Demands a New Kind of Peace

Paul Shrivastava

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…

Global Nutrition Report (GNR)

Shibani Ghosh, Giacomo Zanello, Costanza Conti, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Cecilia Fabrizio, Eileen Kennedy, Shuhei Nomura and Marco Springmann

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…

Polycrisis, Energy, and Climate Change

Ortwin Renn, Ajay Gambhir and Jo Paisley

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…

The Polycrisis Needs a Sustainability- and Resilience-Oriented Paradigm Shift Through Innovation

Andrea Gatto and Cosimo Magazzino

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…

About the Resource Library

The Polycrisis Resource Library includes resources that:

  • Comment on the polycrisis as a concept and as a present global reality
  • Undertake similar analysis using different—but related—concepts
  • Analyze crisis interactions among multiple global systems

Though not exhaustive, the Library strives to present a diverse representation of views on different aspects of the polycrisis discussion, and will be updated as that discussion evolves. Search for resources with the keyword search bar, or by using the drop-down menus to filter for type of resource, global systems addressed, and key themes.

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