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
Using torture E: Emanations of other strategies
Taking occupational risk to health G: Very Specific strategies
Attracting growing outside interest G: Very Specific strategies
Warning A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Exposing public subsidization of environmental pollution G: Very Specific strategies
Exchanging therapists G: Very Specific strategies
Inflating prices E: Emanations of other strategies
Broadening job specifications G: Very Specific strategies
Using subliminal message techniques G: Very Specific strategies
Speeding up results from economic restructuring D: Detailed strategies
Mark R: Strategy roles
Holding supervised informal activities G: Very Specific strategies
Promoting information exchange G: Very Specific strategies
Applying charges E: Emanations of other strategies
Extorting F: Exceptional strategies
Rehearsing social patterns J: Unconfirmed strategies
Implementing international law of the sea on straddling and highly migratory fish stocks G: Very Specific strategies
Identifying areas where sustainability is threatened by demographic factors E: Emanations of other strategies
Harvesting water G: Very Specific strategies
Deciding emerging particular questions G: Very Specific strategies
Clairvoyant R: Strategy roles
Coping with soil deficiency E: Emanations of other strategies
Supplying objectivity to executive decision-making J: Unconfirmed strategies
Improving housing loan recovery methods G: Very Specific strategies
Reducing delays in research G: Very Specific strategies
Religious attendance G: Very Specific strategies
Using water C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Limiting approaches to economic planning J: Unconfirmed strategies
Moralizing A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Sharing household tasks equally among men and women G: Very Specific strategies
Addressing inability to resolve problems realistically K: Provisional strategies
Producing toxic mixtures of substances G: Very Specific strategies
Risking being kidnapped J: Unconfirmed strategies
Assessing potential community benefits G: Very Specific strategies
Studying causes of extreme poverty G: Very Specific strategies
Conducting amateur sports competitions G: Very Specific strategies
Signalling local creative possibilities G: Very Specific strategies
Mediating transboundary air pollution disputes G: Very Specific strategies
Dumping hazardous wastes G: Very Specific strategies
Interfering with free production G: Very Specific strategies
Circumventing duties and assessments E: Emanations of other strategies
Providing meteorological data E: Emanations of other strategies
Exhibiting art forms G: Very Specific strategies
Limiting availability of public facilities D: Detailed strategies
Evaluating effects of world trade agreements on tariffs affecting manufactured goods F: Exceptional strategies
Introducing new products E: Emanations of other strategies
Developing national action plans for biodiversity conservation F: Exceptional strategies
Curbing abuses G: Very Specific strategies
Suffocating A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Controlling growth of debt G: Very Specific strategies

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