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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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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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Principles for Just and Effective Systemic Risk Governance

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 principles capable of addressing complex, interconnected challenges. They present ten principles to guide the development of systemic risk assessment and response across multiple domains: universal

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

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 those in which many psychological and behavioural adaptations evolved. They propose that interacting crises intensify these mismatches and associated stress, while modern conditions such as

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

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 reinforcing domains of wars, climate breakdown, and mass forced displacement, the authors show how geopolitical instability generates direct mental health burdens through proximal mechanisms such

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

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 develop a more resilient and better prepared society. The authors find that most Sendai Framework targets remain unlikely to be met by 2030, with persistent

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The Urgency of Building Systemic Risk Capacity in a Polycrisis World

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 global interconnectedness, amplified by inequality, environmental degradation, and advanced technologies. Because cascading and compounding risks now routinely overwhelm existing institutions, the authors call for a

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

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 legitimation. The analysis demonstrates that the EU has not evolved into a coherent, sovereign geopolitical actor, but rather into a more strategically adaptive and selectively

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