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
Treating drug abuse and alcohol dependency of the aged G: Very Specific strategies
Recognizing business opportunities J: Unconfirmed strategies
Integrating youth G: Very Specific strategies
Increasing employment in commercial law G: Very Specific strategies
Regulating historical research G: Very Specific strategies
Monitoring food production G: Very Specific strategies
Providing heating in cold countries K: Provisional strategies
Treating social diseases G: Very Specific strategies
Maintaining futures library D: Detailed strategies
Depending on education G: Very Specific strategies
Developing scientific standards D: Detailed strategies
Taking financial risk G: Very Specific strategies
Linking dentists G: Very Specific strategies
Increasing land vehicles D: Detailed strategies
Accounting for previous disease and overstrain E: Emanations of other strategies
Preemptive naming D: Detailed strategies
Equipping local repair facilities J: Unconfirmed strategies
Controlling urban development J: Unconfirmed strategies
Increasing combined use of surface and groundwater G: Very Specific strategies
Destroying alluvial forests J: Unconfirmed strategies
Protecting medical privacy F: Exceptional strategies
Supplying local teacher aides J: Unconfirmed strategies
Strengthening capacity to control communicable diseases G: Very Specific strategies
Improving existing marketing G: Very Specific strategies
Conserving low Arctic tundra ecoregion E: Emanations of other strategies
Researching khaki-collar crime G: Very Specific strategies
Distrusting oneself J: Unconfirmed strategies
Developing small-scale fisheries D: Detailed strategies
Supporting corrective penalties J: Unconfirmed strategies
Forming construction company G: Very Specific strategies
Withholding benefits F: Exceptional strategies
Decriminalizing drugs D: Detailed strategies
Publicizing airlines G: Very Specific strategies
Serving civil servants D: Detailed strategies
Labelling agrochemicals G: Very Specific strategies
Strengthening community interaction G: Very Specific strategies
Promoting public participation in environmental decision-making E: Emanations of other strategies
Fostering economic relationships G: Very Specific strategies
Making secret laws J: Unconfirmed strategies
Displacing natural light in buildings J: Unconfirmed strategies
Protesting use of inhumane and indiscriminate weapons E: Emanations of other strategies
Expanding public participation of women in water projects D: Detailed strategies
Controlling harmful levels of artificial discharge to coastal waters E: Emanations of other strategies
Creating business men's structure G: Very Specific strategies
Serving nutritional seniors' meals G: Very Specific strategies
Providing sea access for land-locked countries G: Very Specific strategies
Expanding profitable cottage industry G: Very Specific strategies
Vending A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Prosecuting employer misconduct G: Very Specific strategies
Reducing inequality in education C: Cross-sectoral strategies

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