GAR Special Report 2023: Mapping resilience for the Sustainable Development Goals Increasing demand on water resources Map 6 shows how population and economic growth, combined with the impacts of climate change, are rapidly increasing demand on water resources. That means that by 2050, the total population in countries with critical water stress is expected to … Continue reading Resilience deficit 4. Increasing water stress and population growth
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Resilience deficit 2. Increasing drought risk and food insecurity
As the increasingly severe global consequences of environmental devastation crash through social, economic, and political systems, more attention is being paid to their interrelationships, the multiple polycrises. This continues the global systemic risk and polycrisis series documented in the Global Assessment Special Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2023 (GAR). The report discusses the risks that … Continue reading Resilience deficit 2. Increasing drought risk and food insecurity
Understanding Risk to People, the Planet and Prosperity
This is a continuation of the series related to the Global Assessment Special Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2023. We are in a time of accelerating, interconnected disasters, i.e., polycrisis. A category four hurricane just made landfall in Florida; heat records are broken nearly daily around the world. Glaciers are melting, huge wildfires are burning … Continue reading Understanding Risk to People, the Planet and Prosperity
GAR Special Report 2023
Recent articles on the website have focused on global disaster risk reduction. In particular, about the work of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). UNDRR periodically publishes Global Assessment Reports on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR). Previous writings on this site have been related to GAR 2022. https://www.undrr.org/gar/gar2022-our-world-risk-gar Mapping Resilience for the Sustainable … Continue reading GAR Special Report 2023
UNDRR Strategic Framework
I created this Polycrisis Center website as a repository for and as a way to share what I'm learning about polycrisis. One of the most hopeful things I've been learning about is the extensive work of the United Nations. So much work that it is kind of overwhelming. Hence my wandering through the information. The … Continue reading UNDRR Strategic Framework
Why focus on polycrisis?
You might wonder why I've invested a lot of time studying and writing about the concept of polycrisis, a term I first heard very recently. I built a new blog website (Polycrisis Center) and Facebook group (Polycrisis Center), began gathering sources and studying, created a OneNote notebook about polycrisis, and have written several blog posts. … Continue reading Why focus on polycrisis?
The Need for Civilizational Alternatives
As Zack Walsh puts it, "The future of civilization rests on its capacity to transition to a sustainable model before depleting the energy and resources needed for a recovery within a healthy Earth system." The collapse of today’s civilization would be catastrophic, if there are not viable alternatives in place, given that most people critically … Continue reading The Need for Civilizational Alternatives
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