"A global polycrisis occurs when crises in multiple global systems become causally entangled in ways that cause major human harm. The interactions between constituent crises are significant enough to produce emergent harms that are different from, and usually greater than, the sum of the harms those crises would produce separately”
(Lawrence et al., 2024).
The Cascade Institute’s Polycrisis program examines how today’s multiple crises are linked and how the polycrisis could create possibilities for positive outcomes.
The resource and collaboration hub for the polycrisis research community
Cascade Institute is a proud member of the Accelerator for Systemic Risk Assessment Network
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