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
Providing emergency humanitarian aid C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Improving agricultural productivity D: Detailed strategies
Resolving environmental conflicts D: Detailed strategies
Developing system of information networks D: Detailed strategies
Improving information systems on intellectual property E: Emanations of other strategies
Building administrative structures for sustainable development C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Developing ecological networks E: Emanations of other strategies
Developing virtual diplomacy F: Exceptional strategies
Protecting traditional knowledge E: Emanations of other strategies
Promoting sustainable energy consumption E: Emanations of other strategies
Taxing currency speculation F: Exceptional strategies
Developing separation toilets G: Very Specific strategies
Implementing sustainable strategies through local planning D: Detailed strategies
Campaigning to save forests D: Detailed strategies
Reducing child mortality D: Detailed strategies
Managing natural resources C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Developing available community resources C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Reducing amount of electronic scrap G: Very Specific strategies
Registering potential toxic chemicals D: Detailed strategies
Producing state-of-environment reports F: Exceptional strategies
Developing international human rights law D: Detailed strategies
Networking biodiversity conservation initiatives E: Emanations of other strategies
Creating environmentally sound trading practices E: Emanations of other strategies
Protecting coral reefs D: Detailed strategies
Expanding international information on cleaner production E: Emanations of other strategies
Educating home-owners to use renewable energy G: Very Specific strategies
Preventing further incidence of AIDS D: Detailed strategies
Researching forests E: Emanations of other strategies
Farming with trees D: Detailed strategies
Coordinating disaster relief assistance D: Detailed strategies
Studying conceptual systems F: Exceptional strategies
Creating compliance regimes for multilateral environmental agreements E: Emanations of other strategies
Assessing development assistance F: Exceptional strategies
Ensuring sustainable personal consumption D: Detailed strategies
Developing international environmental law C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Making effective use of medicinal plants E: Emanations of other strategies
Operating community networks B: Basic universal strategies
Creating environmental monitoring and assessment systems E: Emanations of other strategies
Conserving the Arctic D: Detailed strategies
Using silvopasture agriculture D: Detailed strategies
Recognizing women's role in peacekeeping D: Detailed strategies
Integrating biodiversity conservation and landscape management F: Exceptional strategies
Promoting safe motherhood E: Emanations of other strategies
Modelling C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Restoring environmental damage C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Developing cognitive science E: Emanations of other strategies
Contacting extraterrestrials E: Emanations of other strategies
Creating community land trust G: Very Specific strategies
Reducing amount of plastic waste G: Very Specific strategies
Undertaking pre-disaster planning F: Exceptional strategies

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