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
Exploiting confusion G: Very Specific strategies
Encouraging ongoing localized assistance G: Very Specific strategies
Mobilizing opinion G: Very Specific strategies
Proscribing thinking and behaviour E: Emanations of other strategies
Disseminating common heritage D: Detailed strategies
Carrying A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Suspending-Bearing P: Strategy polarities
Facilitating collection of geophysical data F: Exceptional strategies
Sensitizing A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Meeting incremental project costs of environmental protection E: Emanations of other strategies
Developing design principles G: Very Specific strategies
Sustaining community morale C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Avoiding unlucky numbers J: Unconfirmed strategies
Studying language E: Emanations of other strategies
Ensuring right to a fair trial G: Very Specific strategies
Privatizing public assets D: Detailed strategies
Improving riot control D: Detailed strategies
Administering justice C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Engaging in biological warfare G: Very Specific strategies
Limiting rights to land G: Very Specific strategies
Including marine living resources in curricula at all education levels E: Emanations of other strategies
Supporting investment for diversification and national sustainable development G: Very Specific strategies
Abolishing unethical practices by employees G: Very Specific strategies
Ignoring quotas J: Unconfirmed strategies
Using import cartels G: Very Specific strategies
Providing services for women D: Detailed strategies
Appropriating human remains G: Very Specific strategies
Assessing costs and financing to improve urban health G: Very Specific strategies
Coping with inadequate practical education G: Very Specific strategies
Standardizing tax systems E: Emanations of other strategies
Harmonizing national laws relating to international transactions E: Emanations of other strategies
Providing residential care for juvenile criminal offenders G: Very Specific strategies
Ensuring government apologize for errors G: Very Specific strategies
Seeing-Blinding P: Strategy polarities
Producing environmentally sound computing equipment E: Emanations of other strategies
Sacrificing children E: Emanations of other strategies
Improving cooperation with indigenous peoples on local environmental planning and management E: Emanations of other strategies
Protecting reproductive health of refugees G: Very Specific strategies
Regulating industries D: Detailed strategies
Establishing base costs for goods G: Very Specific strategies
Enabling programme satisfaction F: Exceptional strategies
Directing economic planning process G: Very Specific strategies
Assessing urban energy production and consumption patterns G: Very Specific strategies
Regulating electronic commerce F: Exceptional strategies
Providing sufficient postal agents G: Very Specific strategies
Protesting against involuntary mass resettlement J: Unconfirmed strategies
Ensuring primary treatment of municipal sewage discharged to rivers and seas G: Very Specific strategies
Assigning authority for national environmental health action plans E: Emanations of other strategies
Correcting mistaken identification of government with people E: Emanations of other strategies
Closing social institutions J: Unconfirmed strategies

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