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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 interconnectedness heightens the chances of widespread adverse outcomes or disasters, affecting various systems and triggering cascading effects. The article examines how traditional disaster studies concepts must be adapted for the polycrisis context and places historical events on a spectrum of such critical moments. It concludes with recommendations for communities to build resilience and respond democratically to these challenges.
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The term ‘polycrisis’ has entered the lexicon of a growing circle of academics, policymakers, and the public. Polycrisis is a state that encompasses a complex set of risks characterized by multiple, macroregional, and often ecologically embedded linkages between inexorably interconnected systems. The article reevaluates disaster studies concepts within this polycrisis framework, locates historical events along a spectrum of such moments, and offers recommendations for democratic resilience.
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Discover how the term ‘polycrisis’ redefines our understanding of interconnected risks and informs new disaster response methods.
Edited by
Richard Williams, University of South Wales,Verity Kemp, Independent Health Emergency Planning Consultant,Keith Porter, University of Birmingham,Tim Healing, Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London,John Drury, University of Sussex
Most disaster research, resources, and interventions for mental health have been based on the premise of a single incident or disaster occurring. This chapter presents the results of a scoping review on mental health in the aftermath of multiple disaster exposures. It draws on existing evidence from cases in which communities have experienced disasters in rapid succession or years apart. It focuses on groups of findings on cumulative effects, re-activation of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and links between mental and physical health. This chapter makes the case that multiple disaster exposures have different implications to exposure to a single disaster, and should be treated as a priority emerging public health issue, given the projected increases in the frequency and severity of disasters due to climate change.
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