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 willingness to resolve problems J: Unconfirmed strategies
Allocating television frequency bands for satellite transmission G: Very Specific strategies
Imparting intellectual methodologies C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Rehearsing use of abilities D: Detailed strategies
Learning practical budgeting approaches J: Unconfirmed strategies
Reducing violent play in sports E: Emanations of other strategies
Trivializing social values G: Very Specific strategies
Attracting outside commercial enterprise J: Unconfirmed strategies
Evaluating effectiveness of land resource conservation programmes F: Exceptional strategies
Maintaining database on current awareness E: Emanations of other strategies
Ensuring governments respect human rights E: Emanations of other strategies
Developing early warning systems for human rights violations D: Detailed strategies
Stabilizing world monetary conditions G: Very Specific strategies
Stabilizing existing watertable G: Very Specific strategies
Recognizing business opportunities J: Unconfirmed strategies
Freeing up cultural context J: Unconfirmed strategies
Using life-cycle analysis D: Detailed strategies
Limiting availability of commercial sites G: Very Specific strategies
Niche marketing G: Very Specific strategies
Catalyzing teamwork demonstration C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Maintaining supply of goods and services E: Emanations of other strategies
Fasting D: Detailed strategies
Offering contextual information K: Provisional strategies
Explaining away the unexplained G: Very Specific strategies
Improving safeguards against computer crimes J: Unconfirmed strategies
Celebrating the mysteries D: Detailed strategies
Using patriarchal role of the man G: Very Specific strategies
Having gender abortion J: Unconfirmed strategies
Strengthening developing country capacity to manage waste from nuclear programmes E: Emanations of other strategies
Increasing available water volume G: Very Specific strategies
Feuding D: Detailed strategies
Hunting for sport D: Detailed strategies
Influencing government policy K: Provisional strategies
Increasing effectiveness of international emergency relief G: Very Specific strategies
Abolishing unethical industrial practices G: Very Specific strategies
Eliminating excessive handling costs G: Very Specific strategies
Re-aligning grassroots pressure C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Improving structures E: Emanations of other strategies
Supplying capital goods for production D: Detailed strategies
Encouraging use of computer data E: Emanations of other strategies
Using monoculture E: Emanations of other strategies
Enriching community global awareness G: Very Specific strategies
Twinning wetlands, marshlands and peatlands J: Unconfirmed strategies
Identifying critical areas for water resource research E: Emanations of other strategies
Lifting restrictions on private schooling G: Very Specific strategies
Researching crop hazards E: Emanations of other strategies
Assuring safe efficient bridges D: Detailed strategies
Building social cohesion F: Exceptional strategies
Degenerating F: Exceptional strategies
Providing humanitarian aid to refugees C: Cross-sectoral strategies

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