Leadership in Polycrisis: Essential Capabilities for Navigating Global Challenges
Jean Brittain Leslie and Kelly Simmons
This study explores leadership capabilities needed to effectively navigate the unprecedented challenges of polycrisis contexts.
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.
Polycrisis and Economic Development in the Global South
Hebatallah Adam and Ravinder Rena (eds.)
The book delves into the challenges and opportunities faced by the Global South in the context of Polycrisis. The book uses a multidisciplinary approach that combines theoretical studies with empirical…
“Planetary Phase Shift” as a New Systems Framework to Navigate the Evolutionary Transformation of Human Civilisation
Nafeez Ahmed
This paper addresses a gap in foresight studies by proposing a new framework, “collective forward intelligence,” to analyze trends across ecological, social, political, and economic systems. It develops planetary phase…
Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival
Michael Kwet
Michael Kwet offers a critical perspective on the future of digital society, integrating concepts from degrowth and a global critique of the high-tech economy.
Polycrisis: A Framework for Understanding Multiple Crises in the Metacoupled World
Jia, Nan and Li, Yinshuai and Cheng, Jie and Jiang, Zhimeng and Ma, Tianwu and Zheng, Lilin and Xia, Zilong and Wang, Ru and Zhang, Zhan and Yin, Chenglong and chen, ruishan and Liu, Jack (Jianguo).
The authors propose a Polycrisis framework combined with the meta-coupling framework to understand and assess the interdependence of multiple global crises in an interactive world. They apply this framework to…
A Philanthropic Theory of Systems Transformation for Advancing Equity in the Polycrisis
Michael Quinn Patton and Ruth Richardson
This article argues “that intervening to mitigate and reverse the effects of the polycrisis challenges change agents, program designers, foundations, and evaluators to move beyond traditional project-level thinking and autonomous…
Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet Report: Pathways Out of the Polycrisis
World Bank
“This report offers the first post-pandemic assessment of global progress toward” the “interlinked goals” of “ending extreme poverty and boosting shared prosperity on a livable planet.” It “explores potential pathways…
AXA Future Risks Report 2024
AXA
The Future Risks Report explores the emerging risks we may face in the future. The report highlights the growing complexity of managing risks, making decisions, and tackling challenges in a…
Navigating the Polycrisis: Assessing the Adequacy of Adaptive and Transformative Capacities for Addressing Anthropocene Traps
Peter Søgaard Jørgensen, Louis Delannoy, Sofia Maniatakou, Carl Folke, Michele-Lee Moore and Per Olsson
The authors examine the adequacy of adaptive and transformative capacities for navigating the polycrisis and propose five unifying processes as an organizing framework for considering other sustainability and crisis capacities.
Scenarios 2075: The Cascading Risks Study
Trond Arne Undheim
In the Cascading Risks Study, author Trond Undheim seeks to create five scenarios (Climate cataclysm by 2075; World war by 2075; Growth and collapse by 2075; Runaway AI by 2075;…
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.