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
Equalizing education access C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Funding research on social problems E: Emanations of other strategies
Funding youth participation D: Detailed strategies
Increasing land vehicles D: Detailed strategies
Fragmenting institutions G: Very Specific strategies
Planning mining industry F: Exceptional strategies
Offering specialized training opportunities G: Very Specific strategies
Countering sexual exploitation of men G: Very Specific strategies
Designating major industrial buildings G: Very Specific strategies
Delaying delivery of books and publications G: Very Specific strategies
Maximizing resources for implementing Agenda 21 E: Emanations of other strategies
Developing special refugee counselling services G: Very Specific strategies
Researching effects of abandoning the poor to their fate E: Emanations of other strategies
Depending on theory G: Very Specific strategies
Involving NGOs in national programmes to implement Agenda 21 E: Emanations of other strategies
Absolute properties T: Strategy types or complexes
Training in industrial development E: Emanations of other strategies
Reducing incidence of protein-energy malnutrition D: Detailed strategies
Rehabilitating degraded ecosystems E: Emanations of other strategies
Facilitating local movements G: Very Specific strategies
Organizing comprehensive community care C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Providing grassroots health care E: Emanations of other strategies
Expanding broadcasting media D: Detailed strategies
Improving water system infrastructure C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Expanding contribution of scientific and technological community to international negotiations on the environment G: Very Specific strategies
Funding agricultural biodiversty conservation programmes F: Exceptional strategies
Enabling data interchange channels G: Very Specific strategies
Using learning circles G: Very Specific strategies
Seeking favourable bulk-rate prices G: Very Specific strategies
Ministering to unbelievers F: Exceptional strategies
Building community support D: Detailed strategies
Pricing energy rationally E: Emanations of other strategies
Establishing national standards E: Emanations of other strategies
Extending logic G: Very Specific strategies
Requiring social order C: Cross-sectoral strategies
Supporting new highly sophisticated technologies G: Very Specific strategies
Commenting A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Reuniting families E: Emanations of other strategies
Preventing transgression of natural thresholds F: Exceptional strategies
Providing artistic criticism F: Exceptional strategies
Stalling A: Abstract fundamental strategies
Expanding profitable cottage industry G: Very Specific strategies
Processing agricultural products E: Emanations of other strategies
Localizing regulatory participation G: Very Specific strategies
Developing long range models G: Very Specific strategies
Propagating plant genetic resources E: Emanations of other strategies
Producing low-cost food supplements G: Very Specific strategies
Developing whaling industry G: Very Specific strategies
Regulating freight rates G: Very Specific strategies
Creating practical services centre G: Very Specific strategies

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