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Polycrises: A New International Reality?

In this special issue of Recherche et politique appliquée, an initiative led by the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on Risks and Crises (LIRIC), the concept of polycrisis is explored through practical applications. Featuring contributions from graduate students, the issue offers critical reflections on the meaning, emergence, and operationalization of polycrisis across academic and francophone contexts.

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Principles for Guiding Future Research on Resilience and Tipping Points

This paper presents an integrated systems approach to resilience and tipping points by bridging heuristic models with mathematical frameworks from dynamical systems theory. Using the ball-and-cup model alongside the S-shaped bifurcation curve, the authors demonstrate how concepts such as stability, adaptive capacity, and vulnerability can be formally defined and applied to complex ecological, climate, and

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The polycrisis is here, and system dynamics can help: a call to action

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 key features of the SD approach and community that uniquely position it to contribute to polycrisis analysis: endogenous point of view, scenario analysis, interdisciplinary collaboration,

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Chartbook 343 : Polycrisis & the Critique of Capitalocentrism

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 theories from the 20th century, arguing that they often underestimate the unprecedented scale and speed of contemporary issues. Tooze emphasizes the value of the concept

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Global Polycrisis can be Tackled by Institutional Innovation Towards Democratic Efficacy

Hanno Scholtz argues that the world’s polycrisis is caused by an outdated democratic model of “partitioning representation,” where citizens vote periodically and are represented by governments in global affairs. He proposes “Civil Democracy,” a new model that gives citizens and civil society more responsibility in decision-making, offering a path to solving global crises.

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Achieving Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Ecohealth: Insights from a Rodent-Borne Disease Project in a Polycrisis Era

The authors explore the challenges of addressing “wicked problems,” such as emerging zoonotic diseases, and the potential of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research (ITDR) to tackle them. Using a case study on rodent-borne diseases (RBDs) in Europe, they examine the factors influencing ITDR’s success. The article highlights the limited adoption of ITDR in RBD research and

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Exploring the interdependence of climate, finance, energy, and geopolitics: A conceptual framework for systemic risks amidst multiple crises

This study proposes a framework to analyze the dynamics and risk channels between the climate crisis, financial stability, the geopolitical energy crisis, and the energy transitions. The framework is presented in a step-by-step guide and applied in a study case in Germany.

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