Global Strategies & Solutions

Over the ages humans have recognised problems they face, and have devised and implemented solutions and strategies to overcome them. But what was the problem and logic behind these strategies, how were they implemented, and what were their outcomes - positive or negative, deliberate or unintended? The Global Strategies and Solutions section of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is an ongoing attempt to record and map the relationships between any strategies and solutions that humanity actually or potentially uses, in the hopes that a better overall understanding of which would greatly enhance our ability to formulate effective strategies to global problems.

The Global Strategies and Solutions section details this problem and over 32,000 others and the 280,000 relationships between them - from Awarding prizes, Breaking down cultural isolation and Campaigning, to Wishing and Using witchcraft. The strategies presented are those recognized by over 69,000 international organizations including IGOs, NGOs and other bodies (profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations). Some strategies may be recognized by many organizations, others may only be recognized by loose networks, movements or isolated groups of experts.

Strategy Strategy Type
Assuring freedom of the press G: Very Specific strategies
Weighing A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Imaging man G: Very Specific strategies
Developing national health policy for climate change E: Emanations of other strategies
Monitoring birth defects G: Very Specific strategies
Communicating links G: Very Specific strategies
Abolishing unethical practices of health services E: Emanations of other strategies
Promoting multi-cultural societies E: Emanations of other strategies
Disseminating modern productivity knowledge techniques G: Very Specific strategies
Developing environmental risk assessment for genetically modified crops E: Emanations of other strategies
Preserving inequality between North and South E: Emanations of other strategies
Providing auspicious conditions F: Exceptional strategies
Appropriating cultural symbols G: Very Specific strategies
Stabilizing availability of work G: Very Specific strategies
Adapting indigenous pest control knowledge G: Very Specific strategies
Restricting grass-roots acquisition of technical knowledge F: Exceptional strategies
Grounding A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Informing through an independent press G: Very Specific strategies
Utilizing inevitable annual floods G: Very Specific strategies
Reducing homelessness J: Unconfirmed strategies
Raising public awareness of agrobiodiversity F: Exceptional strategies
Preserving land rights of the poor G: Very Specific strategies
Locating outside news sources K: Provisional strategies
Adapting procedures in overseas affiliates to local ecological conditions E: Emanations of other strategies
Researching addiction to drugs G: Very Specific strategies
Treating fear of communism G: Very Specific strategies
Assuring effective information flow G: Very Specific strategies
Combatting forces of irreligion J: Unconfirmed strategies
Exhibiting varied community skills D: Detailed strategies
Encouraging widened reading exposure G: Very Specific strategies
Studying art G: Very Specific strategies
Secularizing politics G: Very Specific strategies
Increasing access to new biotechnology within developing countries E: Emanations of other strategies
Assuring top product prices F: Exceptional strategies
Spreading charity G: Very Specific strategies
Using individual property G: Very Specific strategies
Gridding local power structures G: Very Specific strategies
Chaperon R: Strategy roles
Enhancing status of artists G: Very Specific strategies
Managing biogeographic units E: Emanations of other strategies
Making public announcements J: Unconfirmed strategies
Relating to animals F: Exceptional strategies
Freeing up export expansion E: Emanations of other strategies
Promoting local marketing ventures G: Very Specific strategies
Disappearing A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Campaigning to raise legal age of marriage E: Emanations of other strategies
Protecting biological niches D: Detailed strategies
Controlling domestically prohibited goods E: Emanations of other strategies
Limiting monopoly consumer services G: Very Specific strategies
Improving economic development among Islamic countries E: Emanations of other strategies

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