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Doing Development in the Polycrisis

The author explores the concept of polycrisis, arguing that multiple crises expose the limits of industrial and colonial worldviews, which oversimplify complex systems into controllable models. The author proposes an adaptive political economy that embraces complexity, values local knowledge, and fosters decentralized innovation, advocating for dynamic, bottom-up processes driven by experimentation and collaboration.

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Articulating Crisis and Creating Radical Alternatives

This report presents the outcomes of a participatory and co-created process facilitated by the Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA), a global initiative that weaves together networks of grassroots movements, helping initiate interactions among alternatives to the dominant hegemonic system. Drawing from in-depth reflections by GTA facilitation teams and regional participants in India, Mexico, Colombia, and

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“Planetary Phase Shift” as a New Systems Framework to Navigate the Evolutionary Transformation of Human Civilisation

This paper addresses a gap in foresight studies by proposing a new framework, “collective forward intelligence,” to analyze trends across ecological, social, political, and economic systems. It develops planetary phase shift theory, suggesting that humanity is at a critical turning point, with global crises signalling industrial civilization’s potential collapse or transformation.

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Polycrisis: A Framework for Understanding Multiple Crises in the Metacoupled World

The authors propose a Polycrisis framework combined with the meta-coupling framework to understand and assess the interdependence of multiple global crises in an interactive world. They apply this framework to Germany and China and discuss the policy implications for managing these crises, offering insights for future management strategies at both national and global levels.

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The Spectrum of (Poly)Crisis: Exploring Polycrises of the Past to Better Understand our Current and Future Risks

The authors explore the concept of polycrises by examining historical examples from late 1st-millennium CE Mesoamerica, Late Medieval Eurasia, and the Early Modern Northern Hemisphere to illustrate how these periods exhibited key characteristics of a polycrisis. They argue that studying historical polycrises can enhance our understanding of contemporary challenges and inform the development of strategies

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Risk Management: Charting the Course for a Sustainable Future of the Fashion Industry

In this article, Laura Macchion examines how corporate social responsibility (CSR) and risk management intersect in the fashion industry. The study emphasizes the importance of integrating responsible practices into business strategies to mitigate risks and support long-term profitability. Focusing on a multinational fashion supply chain, it draws on real-world examples to illustrate the challenges and

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