Anthropic Super Crises - A disturbing future (Crisis del Siglo XXI) / Crisis del Siglo XXI (ePub)

Anthropic crises present contingent results of human action. Super crises enhance these impacts on society. We seek to develop contributions so that, faced with similar situations, the administrators of large contemporary social systems can act in a better way than in the past in the face of pandemics, economic challenges, energy demand, corporate technological changes and terrorist threats with their war escalations, knowing that perhaps individually each process does not generate significant changes.

The authors systematically described and evaluated for several years the development of global economic crises and crises derived from pandemics, as a call for attention to certain systemic effects of more general crises. We agree that it is possibly pertinent to review the concept of crisis originally proposed. Now in this new instance of studying crises, we will face the exploratory study of other different crises that we will generically call "Super crisis".

What are Super Crises? They are crises that operate in long cycles in which large changes are processed in very complex social systems. They are more "vague" and "general" crises. They will require a different form of approach, although keeping in mind the original systemic approaches. Long cycles of political, economic or social transformations establish increasingly longer intervals between possible causes and effects in the development of certain processes of change. This makes the administration of this type of system difficult and a challenge to managers.