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.

Principles for Just and Effective Systemic Risk Governance

May 5, 2026

Ruth Richardson, Sarah Hendel-Blackford, Lorenzo Benini, Jonathan Donges, Beth Gibbons, David Jácome-Polit, Zora Kovacic, Jan Kwakkel, Igor Linkov, Lou Munden, Michael Quinn Patton, Ivana Ema Pavkova, Pia-Johanna Schweizer, Megan Shipman, Nick Silver, Maxime Stauffer, Benjamin D. Trump and Ajay Gambhir

This article argues that addressing the polycrisis requires stronger approaches to systemic risk governance. The authors propose that effective governance must move beyond sector-specific responses and be guided by shared…

Evolutionary Mismatch, Stress, and Competition: Making Sense of Psychosocial Problems in the Polycrisis Era

April 26, 2026

Jose C Yong, Amy J Lim, Edison Tan and Sarah Chan

The authors examine the psychosocial dimensions of the polycrisis through the concept of evolutionary mismatch, arguing that rapid technological, socioeconomic, and environmental changes expose humans to conditions that differ from…

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises

April 24, 2026

Global Report on Food Crises (GRFC)

The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises finds that 266 million people across 47 countries faced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025 — with famine confirmed simultaneously in…

Mental Health in the Time of Polycrisis: Geopolitical Determinants and Modern Psychiatry

April 23, 2026

Dinesh Bhugra, Michael Liebrenz and Alexander Smith

The authors advance geopsychiatry as a framework for understanding how the compounding pressures of today’s polycrisis are reshaping psychiatric vulnerabilities across communities and societies. Focusing on the emblematic and mutually…

Three Global Threats Stand Out in a More Uncertain and Insecure World

April 22, 2026

In this publication, GlobeScan presents the results of its latest global urgent problems survey. Results show that war and conflict, climate change, and extreme poverty form a distinct top tier…

Multi-hazard Risk Assessment and Management: Pathways for the Sendai Framework and Beyond

April 21, 2026

Timothy Tiggeloven, Colin Raymond, Marleen C. de Ruiter, Jana Sillmann, Annegret H. Thieken, Sophie L. Buijs, Roxana Ciurean, Emma Cordier, Julia M. Crummy, Lydia Cumiskey, Kelley De Polt, Melanie Duncan, Davide M. Ferrario, Wiebke S. Jäger, Elco E. Koks, Nicole van Maanen, Heather J. Murdock, Jaroslav Mysiak, Sadhana Nirandjan, Benjamin Poschlod, Peter Priesmeier, Nivedita Sairam, Pia-Johanna Schweizer, Tristian R. Stolte, Marie-Luise Zenker, James E. Daniell, Alexander Fekete, Christian M. Geiß, Marc J. C. van den Homberg, Sirkku K. Juhola, Christian Kuhlicke, Karen Lebek, Robert Šakić Trogrlić, Stefan Schneiderbauer, Silvia Torresan, Cees J. van Westen, Judith N. Claassen, Bijan Khazai, Virginia Murray, Julius Schlumberger and Philip J. Ward

The article synthesises findings from the 3rd International Conference on Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World, identifying key areas of attention for scientific research, policy, and practice to…

The Urgency of Building Systemic Risk Capacity in a Polycrisis World

April 17, 2026

Ajay Gambhir, Sarah Hendel-Blackford, Michael J. Albert, Hanna Asipovich, Lorenzo Benini, Sylvanus S.P. Doe, Haripriya Gundimeda, Christopher Hobson, David Korowicz, Michael Lawrence, Robert Lempert, Igor Linkov, Ayan Mahamoud, Rosemary Nantambi, Tom H. Oliver, Ivana E. Pavkova, Ruth Richardson, Ashwin Seshadri, Maxime Stauffer, Pablo Suarez, Lalitha Sundaram and Kasia Murphy

The authors argue that the world urgently needs to build systemic risk capacity to address an unprecedented polycrisis. They explain that modern crises are unprecedented in their scale, speed, and…

The Geopolitical Transformation of the EU in the Era of Polycrisis: Hybrid Adaptation of a Compound Polity After 2022

April 15, 2026

Radoslav Ivančík and Vladimír Andrassy

This article examines the geopolitical transformation of the European Union within the context of polycrisis, explaining how interconnected pressures are reshaping European governance, its adaptive capacity, and its patterns of…

The End of Easy Globalisation

April 14, 2026

Ninety One

This report provides an outlook of the current global context, arguing that the period of easy globalisation is over and that the 2020s constitute a fourth systemic crisis — a…

Fractured Reality

April 9, 2026

Mario Scharfbillig, Stephan Lewandowsky, Sacha Altay, Marshall Van Alstyne, Anastasia Kozyreva, Ralph Hertwig, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Renee DiResta, Sebastian Valenzuela, Stefanie Egidy, Walter Quattrociocchi and Amy Orben

This report examines the evolving impact of digital technologies on European democracy, arguing that platforms algorithmically privilege negative and conflictual content, fragmenting shared reality into what the authors term a…

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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