Understanding polycrisis: definitions, applications, and responses
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DOI: 10.1017/sus.2025.10018
Abstract: Abstract Non-Technical Summary The term ‘polycrisis’ is gaining attention among academics, policymakers, and the public. Unlike a single crisis, a polycrisis involves complex, interconnected risks across multiple regions and systems, often including ecological factors. This… read more here.
Keywords: applications responses; understanding polycrisis; term polycrisis; definitions applications ... See more keywords
A systemic risk assessment methodological framework for the global polycrisis
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-62029-w
Abstract: Human societies and ecological systems face increasingly severe risks, stemming from crossing planetary boundaries, worsening inequality, rising geo-political tensions, and new technologies. In an interconnected world, these risks can exacerbate each-other, creating systemic risks, which… read more here.
Keywords: systemic risk; methodological framework; risk assessment; polycrisis ... See more keywords
Situated polycrises: Somali responses to COVID-19
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DOI: 10.1093/ia/iiae283
Abstract: This article interrogates the concept of polycrisis through a case-study of Somali perceptions of and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, introducing the notion of situated polycrises. Inspired by Heidegger's thinking on thrownness and Haraway's on… read more here.
Keywords: polycrises somali; somali responses; crisis; situated polycrises ... See more keywords
Economic Globalization's Polycrisis
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DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqae024
Abstract: In this article, I suggest that economic globalization is experiencing a particularly serious kind of crisis: a “polycrisis.” Use of this term has proliferated recently but with many meanings. I propose that it be defined… read more here.
Keywords: economic globalization; globalization polycrisis; polycrisis; term ... See more keywords
POLYCRISIS AND ‘UNNATURAL RAIN’ IN URBAN NEIGHBOURHOODS OF BENGAL: The Twin Cities and Issues of Peripheral Centrality
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DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.13295
Abstract: Emerging urban studies scholarship has shown how cities are not fraught with one single crisis but are in a state of polycrisis, with the global South's experience of polycrisis differing significantly in how the crises… read more here.
Keywords: peripheral centrality; twin cities; polycrisis unnatural; rain ... See more keywords
From neologism to promising research agenda? The global polycrisis and IR
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DOI: 10.1177/00471178251333294
Abstract: Over the past two decades, the frequency and intensity of global mega-shocks – such as the climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, record levels of forced migration, and the crisis of multilateralism – have increased markedly.… read more here.
Keywords: promising research; research agenda; global polycrisis; agenda global ... See more keywords
A crisis of crisis management: The polycrisis, the organization of pessimism, and the defensive turn
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DOI: 10.1177/13684310251336133
Abstract: In an attempt to systematize the widespread, though analytically vague diagnosis of a “polycrisis,” the article theorizes the current condition as the outflow of a “crisis of crisis management.” In this reading, the paradigm of… read more here.
Keywords: defensive turn; crisis; crisis crisis; polycrisis ... See more keywords
Sufficiency planning: A model of planning in an era of polycrisis
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DOI: 10.1177/14730952251359070
Abstract: The urgency of the current polycrisis calls for a renewal of planning theory. We propose sufficiency planning as an approach, within earth system boundaries as its fundamental premiss to embrace the ecological, interpersonal, social, and… read more here.
Keywords: planning model; planning era; sufficiency; sufficiency planning ... See more keywords
The Implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights in the Era of Polycrisis
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DOI: 10.17645/si.11203
Abstract: This thematic issue focuses on the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) amid a context of polycrisis. It examines how overlapping global disruptions such as the Covid‐19 pandemic or current geopolitical instability… read more here.
Keywords: implementation european; european pillar; social rights; polycrisis ... See more keywords