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The Cascade Institute is a Canadian research center located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The institute seeks to address the full range of humanity's converging and intersecting crises by identifying and facilitating high-leverage intervention points and using advanced complex global systems mapping and modeling methods in the interest of shifting humanity toward fair and sustainable prosperity.[1]The Cascade Institute is a registered charity under Canadian tax law.[2]
Founded in 2020 by Thomas Homer-Dixon at Royal Roads University, the institute is named after both the Cascadia bioregion and the institute's use of complexity science in its work, particularly as it pertains to "cascades" of virtuous (high-leverage interventions) or pernicious (risks and crises) changes across complex global systems. Its research programs investigate how global issues such as climate change, political instability, and economic disruption interact with each other to bring about these "cascades".[3]
The institute claims to take a non-partisan and ideologically non-aligned approach in its core research areas.[4]
Research Areas and Programs
editAccording to its website, the Cascade Institute's research is divided into five program areas: polycrisis, anti-polarization, ultradeep geothermal energy, scale-up and acceleration of the transition to sustainable energy sources, and permafrost carbon feedback.
Polycrisis
editThe Cascade Institute is part of a global research community working on global systemic interconnections. Its Polycrisis Program engages a community of researchers and practitioners dedicated to understanding the polycrisis and turning knowledge into action.[5] According to the Cascade Institute, a global polycrisis occurs when crises in multiple global systems interconnect and react with one another in ways that cause widespread harm to humanity. The interactions between these crises are significant enough to produce harmful effects distinct from- and greater in scale than the sum of the harm these crises would produce independently.[6]
Examples of the institute's recent Polycrisis Program research include Impact 2024: How Donald Trump's Reelection Could Amplify Global Inter-systemic Risk; Polycrisis Research and Action Roadmap; Positive Pathways Report; and Introduction to Polycrisis Analysis.[7][8][9][10]
With the support of the V.Kann Rasmussen Foundation and in collaboration with members of the polycrisis scientific community, the Cascade Institute hosts and maintains Polycrisis.org, a website dedicated to the collection and aggregation of polycrisis research resources.[11]
Ultradeep Geothermal Energy
editA focus of the institute's research is ultradeep geothermal energy, which they posit has the potential to provide an unlimited, renewable supply of net-zero power, nearly anywhere on earth.[12] In 2023, the institute released a paper titled Ultradeep Geothermal Research and Action Roadmap in which they propose a Canadian geothermal innovation ecosystem which leverages both public and private leadership.[13]
References
edit- ^ Omega (2020-04-16). "Cascade Institute - Omega". Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "Cascade Institute". Canadian Revenue Agency. 2024-05-24. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "Royal Roads launches research institute to study global crises, such as pandemic". Victoria News. 2020-04-27. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "Overview". Cascade Institute. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Peering into polycrisis: researchers look at interconnected challenges". Royal Roads University. 2024-09-16. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "Global polycrisis: The causal mechanisms of crisis entanglement". Cascade Institute. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Impact 2024: How Donald Trump's Reelection Could Amplify Global Inter-systemic Risk". Global Risk Institute. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
- ^ "Polycrisis Research and Action Roadmap". www.cser.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Positive Pathways through Polycrisis". Cascade Institute. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Introduction to Polycrisis Analysis". Cascade Institute. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ "Polycrisis.org". Polycrisis. Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ GeoEnergy, Think (2024-04-24). "Research for ultradeep geothermal in Canada receives major funding". Retrieved 2024-11-29.
- ^ GeoEnergy, Think (2024-08-21). "Cascade Institute publishes roadmap for ultradeep geothermal power in Canada". Retrieved 2024-11-29.