Polycrisis

This note is about polycrisis, a situation where multiple crises are interconnected and exacerbate each other.

Cf.

  • Converging, interconnected, compound, cascading crises
  • Systemic crisis
  • Crisis entanglement
  • Metacrisis
  • Permacrisis

References

Lawrence, Michael, Thomas Homer-Dixon, Scott Janzwood, Johan Rockstöm, Ortwin Renn, and Jonathan F. Donges. “Global Polycrisis: The Causal Mechanisms of Crisis Entanglement.” Global Sustainability 7 (2024): e6. https://doi.org/10/g8r3pb.