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
Increasing capacity to meet water needs of unserved urban populations E: Emanations of other strategies
Restricting passage through straits and interoceanic canals G: Very Specific strategies
Selecting appropriate behaviour in the young E: Emanations of other strategies
Prohibiting drink driving F: Exceptional strategies
Correcting bias in policy making F: Exceptional strategies
Organizing enthusiastic town supporters G: Very Specific strategies
Promoting regional economic development E: Emanations of other strategies
Dissolving monarchy G: Very Specific strategies
Increasing youth linguistic proficiency J: Unconfirmed strategies
Frustrating role of opposition G: Very Specific strategies
Recognizing women's role as environmental managers G: Very Specific strategies
Negotiating conflicting claims over shared inland water resources G: Very Specific strategies
Fortifying rights to personal convictions G: Very Specific strategies
Ensuring equal rights of women on family planning decisions E: Emanations of other strategies
Exposing linguistic elitism E: Emanations of other strategies
Controlling freedom in the transfer of property G: Very Specific strategies
Protecting against vulnerability of holy places during conflict E: Emanations of other strategies
Committing transgression J: Unconfirmed strategies
Reducing predisposition to illness J: Unconfirmed strategies
Using ethnocide G: Very Specific strategies
Assisting weapons destruction G: Very Specific strategies
Regulating accountability bodies G: Very Specific strategies
Conducting environmental workshops J: Unconfirmed strategies
Assuring residents primary occupancy G: Very Specific strategies
Supporting national sustainable growth and development E: Emanations of other strategies
Formulating domestic macroeconomic policies G: Very Specific strategies
Growing kenaf G: Very Specific strategies
Promoting cooperation among religions G: Very Specific strategies
Improving organization of knowledge G: Very Specific strategies
Protecting international trade C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Raising farming priority G: Very Specific strategies
Reviewing subsidies E: Emanations of other strategies
Engaging in multinational commerce G: Very Specific strategies
Providing capital G: Very Specific strategies
Reformulating notions of mobility F: Exceptional strategies
Increasing contribution of engineering sciences to research programmes on the Earth system E: Emanations of other strategies
Quieting political unrest G: Very Specific strategies
Globalizing development strategies E: Emanations of other strategies
Ensuring lasting energy services G: Very Specific strategies
Improving national waste management and control policies G: Very Specific strategies
Ministering to prisoners F: Exceptional strategies
Using cogeneration of electricity and heat G: Very Specific strategies
Avoiding work G: Very Specific strategies
Researching armament - petroleum coalition G: Very Specific strategies
Reducing atmospheric methane concentrations C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Doom-mongering D: Detailed strategies
Releasing social motivity J: Unconfirmed strategies
Transmitting disease E: Emanations of other strategies
Offering online encyclopedia F: Exceptional strategies
Rehabilitating degraded aquatic environments D: Detailed strategies

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