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.

The Global Tipping Points Report 2025

October 10, 2025

Timothy M. Lenton, Manjana Milkoreit, Simon Willcock, Jesse F. Abrams, David I. Armstrong McKay, Joshua E. Buxton, Jonathan F. Donges, Sina Loriani, Nico Wunderling, Floor Alkemade, Mike Barrett, Sara Constantino, Tom Powell, Steven R. Smith, Chris A. Boulton, Donovan Dennis, Henk Dijkstra, Paul Pearce-Kelly, Patricia Pinho and Rosa M. Roman-Cuesta

The Global Tipping Points Report 2025 presents a comprehensive assessment of the escalating risks posed by irreversible changes in Earth’s systems due to human-driven climate and ecological pressures. With contributions…

What are the Risks of a Fragmented World?

October 9, 2025

Jay Sapsford, Gita Gopinath and Ania Coffey

In this episode of The Call, economist Gita Gopinath joins host Jay Sapsford to explore the growing challenges posed by global fragmentation. As geopolitical tensions escalate, trade disputes intensify, and…

Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C

October 3, 2025

Laurie Laybourn

In this four-part documentary series, Laurie Laybourn explores the significant challenges associated with exceeding the 1.5°C global warming threshold. Through interviews with a diverse range of contributors, including climate negotiators,…

Spatial Mobility Under Crisis: Policy Responses and Migration Dynamics in Five Countries

October 3, 2025

Lidan Lyu, Mengyao Cheng, Yu Chen and Xinwei Min

The authors examine how public health crises have reshaped migration governance and spatial mobility. Focusing on the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, China, Brazil, and Ghana, the study analyzes policy responses…

Updating Mental Models of Risk

October 1, 2025

Rod Schoonover, Daniel P. Aldrich and Daniel Hoyer

The authors argue that disasters are no longer isolated events but manifestations of an interconnected complex risk landscape in which cascading and compounding hazards interact across systems. Drawing on recent…

The Perfect Storm: How Intertwined Crises are Reshaping Global Food Security and Commodity Markets

October 1, 2025

Market Minute

The article examines how cascading crises during 2024 and 2025, including climate extremes, geopolitical conflicts, and economic pressures, have disrupted global agricultural supply chains. These disruptions have led to rising…

The WorldRiskReport

October 1, 2025

Bündnis Entwicklung Hilft

The WorldRiskReport 2025 presents the WorldRiskIndex, which assesses disaster risk across 193 countries by combining exposure to natural hazards with societal vulnerability. The report identifies Asia, Africa, and the Americas…

Nature and Biodiversity Loss: A Research Agenda for Financial Economics

September 30, 2025

Stefano Giglio, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel and Olivier Wang

The authors outline a research agenda to deepen understanding of the economic and financial consequences of nature and biodiversity loss, emphasizing that ecosystem degradation and climate change are intertwined through…

Food Trade Disruption After Global Catastrophes

September 30, 2025

Florian Ulrich Jehn, Łukasz G. Gajewski, Johanna Hedlund, Constantin W. Arnscheidt, Lili Xia, Nico Wunderling and David Denkenberger

The authors examine how the global food trade system is vulnerable to major shocks such as abrupt sunlight reduction (from nuclear war or volcanic activity) or global infrastructure loss (from…

Global Systemic Stresses: Understanding the Drivers of Polycrisis

September 30, 2025

Michael Lawrence, Megan Shipman and Chris Collins

This report introduces the Cascade Institute’s Stress-Trigger-Crisis model, a systemic framework that distinguishes between slow-moving stresses that erode the resilience of global systems and fast-moving trigger events that precipitate crises….

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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