Leadership in Polycrisis: Essential Capabilities for Navigating Global Challenges
Jean Brittain Leslie and Kelly Simmons
This study explores leadership capabilities needed to effectively navigate the unprecedented challenges of polycrisis contexts.
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.
Research Study on Polycrisis, its Influence on Trust and Legitimacy of Policing and Border Security
Frontex
The report examines the effects of polycrisis on trust, legitimacy, human capital, and emerging technologies across the operational and organizational dimensions of policing and border security. It explores two key…
Polycrisis and Economic Development in the Global South
Hebatallah Adam and Ravinder Rena (eds.)
The book delves into the challenges and opportunities faced by the Global South in the context of Polycrisis. The book uses a multidisciplinary approach that combines theoretical studies with empirical…
“Planetary Phase Shift” as a New Systems Framework to Navigate the Evolutionary Transformation of Human Civilisation
Nafeez Ahmed
This paper addresses a gap in foresight studies by proposing a new framework, “collective forward intelligence,” to analyze trends across ecological, social, political, and economic systems. It develops planetary phase…
Understanding biodiversity – ecosystem service linkages in real landscapes
Jiangxiao Qiu and Matthew Mitchell
The article examines the impact of human-driven biodiversity loss and its consequences for ecosystem functions and services, emphasizing its role in the global polycrisis. It highlights the need for large-scale,…
Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival
Michael Kwet
Michael Kwet offers a critical perspective on the future of digital society, integrating concepts from degrowth and a global critique of the high-tech economy.
A Horizon Scan of Global Catastrophic Risks
Giuseppe Dal Prá, Christopher Chan, Timur Burkhanov, Constantin W. Arnscheidt, Roger Cremades, Carla Zoe Cremer, Victor Galaz, Ajay Gambhir, Katie Heikkinen, Michael Hinge, Daniel Hoyer, Florian U. Jehn, Paul Larcey, Luke Kemp, Patrick W. Keys, Emad Kiyaei, Steven J. Lade, David Manheim, David A. McKay, Divya Pandey, Tom Pegram, Viktoria Spaiser, Kolfinna Tómasdóttir, Peter Turchin, Saskia E. Werners, Mark Workman, Nico Wunderling, Hiromi Yamashita and William Sutherland.
The authors examine global catastrophic risks, prioritizing those with the highest cascade potential. Through a horizon scan, they identify 15 key risks, highlighting themes like cascading failures, threat interactions, flawed…
Report: 10 new insights in climate science 2024/2025
Future Earth, The Earth League and the World Climate Research Programme
The report provides an overview of recent advancements in climate change research, highlighting key issues such as rising methane emissions, and the interconnected risks posed by climate change. It emphasizes…
Polycrisis: A Framework for Understanding Multiple Crises in the Metacoupled World
Jia, Nan and Li, Yinshuai and Cheng, Jie and Jiang, Zhimeng and Ma, Tianwu and Zheng, Lilin and Xia, Zilong and Wang, Ru and Zhang, Zhan and Yin, Chenglong and chen, ruishan and Liu, Jack (Jianguo).
The authors propose a Polycrisis framework combined with the meta-coupling framework to understand and assess the interdependence of multiple global crises in an interactive world. They apply this framework to…
A Philanthropic Theory of Systems Transformation for Advancing Equity in the Polycrisis
Michael Quinn Patton and Ruth Richardson
This article argues “that intervening to mitigate and reverse the effects of the polycrisis challenges change agents, program designers, foundations, and evaluators to move beyond traditional project-level thinking and autonomous…
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.