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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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Three Global Threats Stand Out in a More Uncertain and Insecure World

In this publication, GlobeScan presents the results of its latest global urgent problems survey. Results show that war and conflict, climate change, and extreme poverty form a distinct top tier of perceived urgency. Together, these concerns capture a broader sense of insecurity spanning safety, environmental stability, and basic economic well-being, reflecting a world where multiple

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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 End of Easy Globalisation

This report provides an outlook of the current global context, arguing that the period of easy globalisation is over and that the 2020s constitute a fourth systemic crisis — a “crisis of global integration” — driven by three mutually reinforcing forces: the return of multipolarity under nuclear constraint, a structural shift from commodity abundance to

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Digital Resilience Within a Hypermediated Polycrisis

This article explores digital resilience within a hypermediated polycrisis, arguing that overlapping crises are increasingly experienced through deeply interconnected digital environments that shape how people understand and respond to disruption. It highlights digital resilience as a dynamic, socially embedded process involving digital literacy, social networks, and adaptive capacities across multiple levels, and notes that marginalized

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Beyond Survival: Sustaining Human Agency in Challenging Times – Graham Leicester

In this podcast, Katherine Fulton, Graham Leicester, and Commonweal’s executive director Oren Slozberg explore how individuals, communities, and institutions can cultivate a fully human response to the polycrisis. The conversation reflects on why framing the polycrisis in abstract or intellectual terms tends to produce resignation rather than agency, and argues instead for approaching it as

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What to Do as The World Falls Apart: A Framework for Action

In this episode, Nate Hagens moves beyond diagnosis of the global polycrisis to propose a practical framework for action organised around six interdependent fronts: infrastructure and physical stock redesign, poverty and dignity infrastructure, ecological intervention, civic resilience and governance, culture and meaning, and economic transition toward post-growth models. Arguing that the window for building the

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Is Polycrisis a Global Phenomenon? Perspectives from Comparative Politics

This debate article examines whether polycrisis constitutes a genuinely global phenomenon by bringing together comparative political science perspectives on Africa, Latin America, East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Global North. Through regional analyses, the authors find that the polycrisis narrative is a Global North construct, while many regions of the

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Both Adaptive and Transformative Capacities are Necessary to Navigate Global Polycrisis

The authors assess the adequacy of adaptive and transformative capacities for navigating the global polycrisis. Through a rapid assessment of their potential for addressing the 14 Anthropocene traps, they find that while 10 of 14 traps challenge 17 of 23 resilience capacities, 10 capacities hold general potential to prevent trap formation and progress, with transformative

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