Michael Lawrence

Fellow, Cascade Institute and Instructor, University of Waterloo
Michael Lawrence

Dr. Michael Lawrence (he/his/him) is a Research Fellow on the Polycrisis program at the Cascade Institute (Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) where he examines the causal mechanisms of crisis interactions across such global systems as governance, energy, food, economy, climate, ecology, and international security. He also developed the website Polycrisis.org, leads the Cascade Institute’s production of pedagogical tools on complex systems thinking, and serves as Section Editor for the special edition “Polycrisis in the Anthropocene” of the journal Global Sustainability.