pemInequality in a Context of Climate Crisis after COVIDem uses a complex realist approach to examine the crisis of three interconnected problems economic inequality, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.ppWidely acknowledged as the key driver of political discontent and social instability, economic inequality across high and middle-income countries is profoundly interconnected with climate change. Both of these issues are now set within the particularly acute context of COVID-19 and its aftermath. Confronting the crisis of these inherently interwoven issues is now the major problem for all political and governance systems. This book uses a complex realist frame of reference to understand the icharacteri of social-cultural-economic-political-ecological systems. It gives us a vocabulary and modes of thinking to confront these societal challenges and inform future action.ppContributing to our thinking about dynamic social systems, this text deploys complex realism to understand our