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.
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 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…
Climate Policy in the Era of the Polycrisis: What can we expect in 2025?
Centre for Science and Environment
In this conversation, the Centre for Science and Environment features Tim Sahay to explore the prospects for global decarbonisation in 2025 in the context of a polycrisis marked by geopolitical…
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…
Ten Issues to Watch in 2025
Étienne Bassot
In its ninth edition, the European Parliamentary Research Service examines ten key issues likely to shape public debate and policy in the European Union throughout 2025. The issues analyzed include…
Collaborative Support Networking as a Systemic Design Practice for Approaching the Polycrisis
George Fedha, Laurence Habib, Dewi Hartkamp, Flavio Mesquita da Silva, Fred Steier, Abbie VanMeter and Sergej van Middendorp
In this paper, the authors present collaborative support networking as a practice in systemic design and as one approach to addressing the diverse manifestations of the polycrisis. This collaborative networking…
Tourism in the Polycrisis: a Horizon 2050 Paper
Stefan Gössling and Daniel Scott
This paper delves into the urgent need for the tourism sector to better understand and plan for the complex and interconnected global risks—collectively referred to as a polycrisis—that threaten its…
Ways Out of the Polycrisis
Jürgen Scheffran
In this article, Jürgen Scheffran explores the escalating global polycrisis arguing that current governance systems are failing to prevent catastrophic tipping points in the Earth system. He emphasizes the urgency…
Collaborative Problem-Solving for the ‘Polycrisis’
James Juniper
James Juniper examines how advances in applied category theory can support collaborative problem-solving in the context of Polycrisis. He highlights the potential of diagrammatic reasoning, particularly through tools like optics…
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.