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.

Ten Principles for Transforming Economics in a Time of Global Crises

May 22, 2025

Jasper O. Kenter, Simone Martino, Sam J. Buckton, Sandra Waddock, Bina Agarwal, Annela Anger-Kraavi, Robert Costanza, Adam P. Hejnowicz, Peter Jones, Jordan O. Lafayette, Jane Kabubo-Mariara, Nibedita Mukherjee, Kate E. Pickett, Chris Riedy and Steve Waddell

The authors present a qualitative analysis of 238 sources spanning 38 alternative economic approaches and identify ten shared principles for transforming economics in response to the global polycrisis. These principles…

Polycrisis Patterns: Applying System Archetypes to Crisis Interactions

May 20, 2025

David Collste, Cristina I. Apetrei, Linda Booth Sweeney, Jessica Lynch Boucher, Jenson Chong-Leng Goh, Olivier Hamant, Christoph E. Mandl, Gillian S. Martin Mehers, Riichiro Oda and Bert J. M. de Vries

This paper illustrates the potential of systems thinking by applying system archetypes to advance the conceptual understanding of the polycrisis. It explores three archetypes adapted to the study of polycrises:…

Towards the Governance of Global Systemic Risk: Reforming the Summit of the Future

May 13, 2025

Nicholas G. Studzinski, Randolph Kent and David Korowicz

This paper examines the United Nations’ 2024 Summit of the Future and its Pact for the Future, suggesting that while the Pact addresses key global challenges, it does not fully…

Polycrisis in the Anthropocene – A Global Sustainability Webinar

May 7, 2025

Michael Lawrence, Pia-Johanna Schweizer, Michael J. Albert, Ashwin Seshadri, Alexandre Giguère, Rachel Ainsworth and Johan Rockström.

One year after the call for papers for the Polycrisis in the Anthropocene special issue, 13 articles have been published, with more contributions forthcoming. This webinar features five authors from…

Public Administration in an Age of Polycrises: Multi-nodal Governance Approaches in Some South East Asian Countries

May 1, 2025

Alex Brillantes, Karl Emmanuel Villanueva Ruiz, Ainna Shariz Comia, Nelin Estocado Dulpina, Celine Grace Abella and Reiou Regie Manuel

In this chapter, the authors explore how public administration can effectively respond to the contemporary polycrisis. Using a multi-nodal governance framework, the chapter examines how selected Southeast Asian countries, including…

From Polycrisis to Metacrisis: a short introduction

April 24, 2025

Rufus Pollock and Rosie Bell

The authors explore the relationship between polycrisis and metacrisis, proposing a three-layer logic model to explain their connection. While polycrisis refers to the entanglement of interconnected global crises that intensify…

Artificial Intelligence in the Polycrisis: Fueling or Fighting Flames?

April 16, 2025

Louis Delannoy, Julie Sampieri, Raf E. V. Jansen, Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Magnus Nyström and Victor Galaz

The authors explore how artificial intelligence is increasingly entangled with the polycrisis. Using the Anthropocene Traps framework, they examine 14 self-reinforcing structural dynamics to reveal how artificial intelligence can both…

Interconnected Disaster Risks: Turning Over a New Leaf

April 9, 2025

Caitlyn Eberle, Liliana Narvaez, Melisa Mena Benavides, Irmak Karakislak and Zita Sebesvari

The 2025 Interconnected Disaster Risks report, Turning Over a New Leaf, calls for transformative societal changes to address escalating global crises. It outlines five essential shifts: rethinking waste, realigning with…

Collapse: What It Is — And What To Do

April 2, 2025

Rachel Donald and Sarah Wilson

In this episode, Sarah Wilson delves into the concept of societal collapse, exploring its roots and possible responses. She weaves together Western and Indigenous perspectives, discussing theories such as Moloch…

How Do Crises Spread? The Polycrisis and Crisis Transmission

March 31, 2025

Malte Brosig

Malte Brosig examines the conditions under which crises may transmit across systems, presenting a conceptual analysis that draws on a diverse set of theoretical frameworks, including neofunctionalism, rational choice, complexity…

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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