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.

Planetary Solvency – finding our balance with nature

Sandy Trust, Lucy Saye, Oliver Bettis, Georgina Bedenham, Oliver Hampshire, Timothy M. Lenton and Jesse F. Abrams

The report presents a global risk management framework to address climate-related challenges and introduces the Planetary Solvency risk dashboard, providing policymakers with actionable insights to guide human activity within the…

The Global Risks Report 2025

World Economic Forum

The Global Risks Report 2025 presents insights from the Global Risks Perception Survey 2024-2025, which gathered input from over 900 experts worldwide. The report analyzes global risks across three timeframes—immediate…

Why Governments Should Offer Hope for the Future

Greta Groß

Greta Groß explores how the ongoing polycrisis fuels public anxiety and drives governments into short-term responses. She argues that democratic resilience requires positive, future-oriented narratives to counter populist nostalgia and…

Tracking SDG Achievements in the Age of Polycrisis

Theresa Beltramo, Giacomo de Giorgi and Ibrahima Sarr

The authors examine the impact of the polycrisis on the global SDG Index by assessing the progress of countries worldwide in achieving SDG targets before and after the COVID period….

How the Syrian Revolution Started Over 14 Years Ago – and Why It isn’t Really Over Yet

Rachel Ainsworth and Daniel Hoyer

The authors explore the complexities of the Syrian revolution within the broader context of the global polycrisis, emphasizing the interconnected social, political, and environmental factors that fueled its trajectory.

The Los Angeles Fires, Polycrisis, & How to Live in Collapse | Urgent Futures Rapid Response #2

Jesse Damiani

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…

Top 10 2025 Global Disaster Risks

Andrew Busch

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

Vinicius Picanço Rodrigues, Michael Lawrence and Scott Janzwood

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…

Top Risks 2025

Ian Bremmer and Cliff Kupchan

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

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…

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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