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The Impact of Polycrisis on GPNs—a Focus on the EU’s Trade Policy Response to the Climate Crisis

This paper explores how policy responses to the polycrisis seek to reshape Global Production Networks, encouraging new forms of decoupling and recoupling. The author focuses on the EU’s trade policy responses to the climate crisis, especially carbon tariffs and the deforestation regulation. These new measures represent a shift from traditional trade policy and a conscious

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Anticipatory Skill and Structural Biases of a Major Global Risk Assessment

The authors evaluate the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Reports (GRRs) from 2006–2024 by comparing survey-based risk likelihoods with a multi-decadal database of national shocks, and by tracing how surveys are translated into the reports’ narratives. Across eight shock categories, they find limited and uneven prospective alignment with observed shock frequency — with only geopolitical

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Nonprofit Resilience in Polycrisis: Evidence from Czech NGOs Responding to the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

This article examines how NGOs contribute to resilience in a polycrisis context, focusing on the response of Czech NGOs to the Ukrainian refugee crisis following the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a two-year mixed-methods study combining interviews with NGO leaders and a survey of 235 organisations, the authors identify three key resilience strategies: cross-organisational collaboration, mobilisation

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Temporal Turbulence in the Polycrisis: Editors’ Introduction to the Special Section

This introduction to the special issue “Temporal Turbulence in the Polycrisis” examines how the contemporary polycrisis of climate change, biodiversity loss, and ongoing colonial legacies challenges conventional understandings of time and temporality. The authors argue that environmental crises cannot be fully understood as technical or future-oriented problems but must be situated within the long historical

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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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From Crisology to Polycrisis: A Genealogy of the Concept of Polycrisis

The author traces the intellectual history of the concept of “polycrisis” from Edgar Morin’s original theory of crisology in the 1970s to its widespread contemporary use after 2022. Drawing on Morin’s primary texts, a systematic review of 257 publications, and a multilingual bibliometric analysis covering fifteen languages, the study identifies several transmission pathways through which

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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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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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