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
Exploring appropriate methodologies G: Very Specific strategies
Enriching corporate activity G: Very Specific strategies
Promoting planting of urban trees G: Very Specific strategies
Compiling socio-economic statistics C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Training ecological involvement E: Emanations of other strategies
Combining labour flexibility with economic security G: Very Specific strategies
Destroying the countryside D: Detailed strategies
Transforming administrative structures J: Unconfirmed strategies
Spraying weeds G: Very Specific strategies
Alcoholic R: Strategy roles
Promoting local business visibility G: Very Specific strategies
Assessing influence of vulnerable groups on sustainable development F: Exceptional strategies
Augmenting present water supply C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Providing loans for national institutional change D: Detailed strategies
Treating rheumatic diseases G: Very Specific strategies
Using agricultural materials G: Very Specific strategies
Undermining societal knowledge resistance J: Unconfirmed strategies
Improving animal feed products D: Detailed strategies
Resettling people D: Detailed strategies
Evaluating effects of world trade agreements on trade defence instruments F: Exceptional strategies
Sustaining cultural resilience J: Unconfirmed strategies
Discrimination by social neglect D: Detailed strategies
Protecting against road hazards E: Emanations of other strategies
Reusing A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Making inventories of operating machinery G: Very Specific strategies
Providing symbolic head for governing body G: Very Specific strategies
Advancing missionary church F: Exceptional strategies
Coping A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Publicizing airlines G: Very Specific strategies
Reducing stiffness G: Very Specific strategies
Increasing scientific capability in coastal zones E: Emanations of other strategies
Strengthening ties between manufacturers K: Provisional strategies
Preventing pollution of aquifers by toxic substances E: Emanations of other strategies
Improving data on aid flows D: Detailed strategies
Determining cause of death E: Emanations of other strategies
Limiting availability of education G: Very Specific strategies
Acting disorderly J: Unconfirmed strategies
Evening out concentrations of power G: Very Specific strategies
Oppressing women J: Unconfirmed strategies
Perpetuating flow of communal lifestyle G: Very Specific strategies
Facilitating low or no-cost use of mass media for education E: Emanations of other strategies
Providing leverage finance E: Emanations of other strategies
Serving two masters F: Exceptional strategies
Resisting external influence E: Emanations of other strategies
Avoiding insect damage G: Very Specific strategies
Conserving vegetables G: Very Specific strategies
Reducing cost of land F: Exceptional strategies
Mimicking nature D: Detailed strategies
Fostering involvement of international nongovernmental organizations in regional development E: Emanations of other strategies
Assessing high seas resources potential F: Exceptional strategies

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