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
Coordinating beautified downtown area K: Provisional strategies
Networking programmes E: Emanations of other strategies
Refusing adoption G: Very Specific strategies
Increasing success experience F: Exceptional strategies
Venerating A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Using scavenger wells for removing saline drainage water G: Very Specific strategies
Regulating surgical profession G: Very Specific strategies
Developing emergency response procedures for nongovernmental organizations engaged on hazardous duties E: Emanations of other strategies
Overcoming health care dependency G: Very Specific strategies
Incurring national debt G: Very Specific strategies
Using meteorological information D: Detailed strategies
Charging appropriately for water E: Emanations of other strategies
Reducing imperialism F: Exceptional strategies
Studying social reform F: Exceptional strategies
Developing personal contacts among botanists G: Very Specific strategies
Releasing new mythology K: Provisional strategies
Expanding agriculture market methods F: Exceptional strategies
Risking disease J: Unconfirmed strategies
Shipping arms illegally G: Very Specific strategies
Increasing level of domestic resource mobilization J: Unconfirmed strategies
Illuminating-Obscuring P: Strategy polarities
Rehabilitating defective water systems D: Detailed strategies
Acknowledging internationally imposed economic sanctions G: Very Specific strategies
Classifying information C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Strengthening role of women in local government E: Emanations of other strategies
Advancing photogrammetry F: Exceptional strategies
Seeking spiritual insight F: Exceptional strategies
Living sustainable lifestyles C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Showing leadership in international politics E: Emanations of other strategies
Reforesting C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Defending academic freedom G: Very Specific strategies
Refusing patenting of gene matter J: Unconfirmed strategies
Exchanging wealth G: Very Specific strategies
Increasing non-Eurocentric history education G: Very Specific strategies
Authorizing association rights G: Very Specific strategies
Combining faith with science E: Emanations of other strategies
Defining health risks J: Unconfirmed strategies
Using environmental knowledge G: Very Specific strategies
Analysing total water system G: Very Specific strategies
Denying right to liberty G: Very Specific strategies
Defining distribution policy G: Very Specific strategies
Reducing bourgeois attitudes J: Unconfirmed strategies
Reviewing progress on training for sustainable development G: Very Specific strategies
Reducing illiteracy amongst children G: Very Specific strategies
Establishing business equipment prices G: Very Specific strategies
Abolishing unethical practices B: Basic universal strategies
Holding society accountable to the past and future E: Emanations of other strategies
Creating attractive business district G: Very Specific strategies
Allowing restructuring of social relations G: Very Specific strategies
Disapproving of vulgarization of concepts F: Exceptional strategies

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