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
Reading A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Condemning wrongful acts J: Unconfirmed strategies
Prompting A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Providing doctors G: Very Specific strategies
Coordinating local recreation plan D: Detailed strategies
Symbolizing rites of passage G: Very Specific strategies
Establishing educational data G: Very Specific strategies
Broadening systematic purchasing power G: Very Specific strategies
Demonstrating basic preventive measures G: Very Specific strategies
Abstaining from patient participation in medical decision-making G: Very Specific strategies
Regionalizing activities G: Very Specific strategies
Respecting sacred traditions D: Detailed strategies
Repressing sexual desires F: Exceptional strategies
Romanticizing women E: Emanations of other strategies
Applying precautionary principle D: Detailed strategies
Growing crops D: Detailed strategies
Using integrated approaches to environmental infrastructure in informal settlements E: Emanations of other strategies
Reducing discrimination in public services D: Detailed strategies
Studying birds as pests G: Very Specific strategies
Establishing fixed market rates G: Very Specific strategies
Exposing development scandals E: Emanations of other strategies
Nurturing A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Exploring career opportunity possibilities E: Emanations of other strategies
Expanding local industrial base G: Very Specific strategies
Fleeing religious persecution G: Very Specific strategies
Popularizing crafts J: Unconfirmed strategies
Restricting sale of prescription drugs via the internet F: Exceptional strategies
Denying rights of children and youth G: Very Specific strategies
Abducting children G: Very Specific strategies
Questioning superiority of expensive drugs J: Unconfirmed strategies
Strengthening national centres for information exchange on toxic chemicals E: Emanations of other strategies
Sentencing offenders E: Emanations of other strategies
Prosecuting civil crimes committed during war G: Very Specific strategies
Hiding extent of control of national economies by limited number of individuals G: Very Specific strategies
Localizing advanced medical knowledge G: Very Specific strategies
Exorcizing buildings G: Very Specific strategies
Monitoring illegal activity F: Exceptional strategies
Monitoring chemical pollution F: Exceptional strategies
Disrupting animal breeding grounds G: Very Specific strategies
Developing shared service G: Very Specific strategies
Leasing geosynchronous satellites G: Very Specific strategies
Securing international assistance for urban environmental improvement programmes E: Emanations of other strategies
Building community support D: Detailed strategies
Training voluntary helpers G: Very Specific strategies
Distributing fresh citrus fruits J: Unconfirmed strategies
Reducing discharges of dangerous synthetic organic compounds to the marine environment E: Emanations of other strategies
Using ethnicity as identity D: Detailed strategies
Providing training for urban environmental health workers G: Very Specific strategies
Providing future insurances of payment G: Very Specific strategies
Justifying "business as usual" projections G: Very Specific strategies

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