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Nanostructured Interfaces Integrated with Unsupervised Intelligence to Mitigate Global Polycrisis Complexities

This review argues that nanostructured sensors can play an important role in addressing the polycrisis, including climate instability, antimicrobial resistance, pandemics, and emerging technological disruptions, but that their effectiveness is limited by the complexity and scale of the data they generate. The authors propose unsupervised machine intelligence as a critical bridge between advanced sensing materials […]

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Addressing the Polycrisis through Multi-Stakeholder Landscape Partnerships and the Rise of a Landscape Support System

In this seminar, Dr. Sara Scherr examines integrated landscape management (ILM) as a response to the ongoing polycrisis, arguing that it integrates healthy nature, regenerative economies, human well-being, and social solidarity in ways that empower local actors. Dr.Scherr finds that multi-stakeholder landscape partnerships have proliferated over recent decades, supported by growing knowledge, planning tools, and

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Theorising the Impacts of Polycrisis on Employment Relations: Complexity and Diversity at a Global Scale

This article argues that the polycrisis concepts provides an important lens for understanding contemporary employment relations. The authors suggest that the employment relationship is both a key site where the impacts of overlapping crises are experienced and a central mechanism through which capitalist economies generate profit and reproduce systemic vulnerabilities. Examining employment relations across different

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Can We Eat Our Way Out of Polycrisis?

The author argues that food system transformation represents one of the most connected and pliable nexus interventions available for navigating today’s polycrisis, drawing on historical research into the Black Death era — a polycrisis-like period in which climate instability, food system disruptions, conflict, and disease formed a vicious spiral — to demonstrate that ostensibly localised

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Why this Age of Polycrisis Demands a New Kind of Peace

The author argues that the contemporary polycrisis, characterized by escalating geopolitical tensions, ecological breakdown, growing inequality, and democratic fragility, requires a fundamental rethinking of peace. Rather than defining peace solely as the absence of war, the article advances the concept of planetary peace, a holistic framework that links peace within individuals, among societies, and with

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Polycrisis, Energy, and Climate Change

In this webinar hosted by the European Banking Institute in collaboration with e-axes forum, Ortwin Renn, AJ Gambir, and Jo Paisley explore how systemic risks emerge from complex interdependencies, non-linear dynamics, and cascading effects that challenge established governance, regulatory, and analytical frameworks. The panel examines why traditional risk assessment tools struggle under deep uncertainty and

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The Polycrisis Needs a Sustainability- and Resilience-Oriented Paradigm Shift Through Innovation

This article examines the polycrisis as a framework for understanding and governing interconnected risks across social, ecological, economic, and political systems. Using a comparative analysis of the European Union and China, the authors explore how different approaches to transition governance can support sustainability under conditions of overlapping crises and systemic uncertainty. The article identifies four

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The Financial System is a Giant Polycrisis Waiting to Happen

The author argues that today’s financial system faces a polycrisis characterized by multiple vulnerabilities including highly leveraged Treasury basis trades, record sovereign debt levels, commercial real estate refinancing pressures, growing exposure within opaque non-bank financial institutions, dangerously concentrated AI-driven equity markets, and destabilizing geopolitical pressures from conflicts involving Iran and Russia. Unlike 2008, where stress

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Twenty-First Century European B/Orders and Transborder Living-Spaces in Times of Polycrisis

This introduction to the special issue on 21st century European b/orders and transborder living-spaces in times of crisis discusses contemporary dynamics of re-bordering in Europe in the course of the polycrisis. The authors argue that what was once a model of cross-border integration, in which border regions served as laboratories for multilevel governance and transborder

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The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises

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 parts of the Gaza Strip and Sudan. Conflict remained the primary driver, affecting over 147 million people, while humanitarian and development financing collapsed to decade-low

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