Crowdsourced backend of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the promiscuous bartering of sex favours for money or gifts. Most prostitutes...
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Open-angle glaucoma
Open-angle glaucoma is the most common type of glaucoma, accounting for at least 90% of all...
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Extinct species of Bufo periglenes
The Golden toad appears to have become extinct, along with 20 other species of toads and frogs...
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Neurofibromatosis
Neurofibromatosis is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized particularly by cafe-au-lait...
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Neonatal mortality
Infant mortality is a composite index which includes deaths of infants 0-1 weeks of age, namely...
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Geomagnetic storms
Solar flares produce bursts of ionizing radiation (sudden emission of electrons and protons)...
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National public debt
Public debt is the obligation on the part of the government, one of its agencies, or of local...
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Soliciting for prostitution
Male kerb-crawlers are the would-be clients of prostitutes, who prowl the streets in cars or on...
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Osteoarthritis
Sometimes called degenerative joint disease, osteoarthritis is a result of “wear-and-tear” or...
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Scrub typhus
Scrub typhus is a mite-borne disease. The causative organism is Rickettsia orientalis....
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Environmental hazards of exotic species introduction
Introduced species are plants and species which have been translocated by human agency into...
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Graffiti
The popular use of aerosol paint (among other tools of vandalism) as a means of defacing public...
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Adenovirus infections
Adenoviruses are respiratory pathogens, widespread in nature, infecting birds (aviadenoviruses)...
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Fragile X syndrome
An X-linked dominant inherited disease expressing in males with the females as carriers.
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Anti-communism
Zealous activity to halt or reverse the spread of communism, derived from profound fear and a...
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Narcissism
Narcissism, a psychoanalytical concept, is broadly defined as the inability to empathize with...
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Diseases of metabolism
In the healthy individual the many metabolic activities of the body are maintained in an optimum...
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Buerger's disease
This is a disease of blood vessels and results in poor circulation in the lower legs, causing...
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Tropical deforestation
As people seek land to cultivate, wood to burn and raw materials for their industries, they turn...
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Loss of agricultural biodiversity
The rapid expansion of industrial and "green revolution" agriculture over the last 100 years has...
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Overstocking
The pressure of a high animal population on limited grazing areas has led to progressive...
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Ethnic conflict
Conflict of a physical nature or in the form of overt discrimination on ethnic grounds (which...
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Anger
Anger is a common reaction to injury, mistreatment or opposition. If a person becomes angry at...
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Abuse of mescaline
Tolerance to mescaline develops rapidly with continued abuse, but it is not considered...
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Criminalization of prostitution
The making of prostitution a criminal offence does little or nothing to protect women from...
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Human exceptionalism
Many people regard humanity as so consummately superior to all other forms of life that...
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Environmental refugees
Although the immediate cause of of any mass movement of people may appear to be political...
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Youth unemployment
The human wastage caused by unemployment is intensified when those affected are young. Young...
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Acne
A chronic skin disease, acne is due to overproduction of sebum, an oily substance, by the...
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Inadequate testing of drugs
Manufactured drugs are not subject to the same quality controls as certain other commodities....
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Historical misrepresentation
The process of rewriting extremely horrible historical episodes so that those responsible are...
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Anaplasmosis
Anaplasmosis, sometimes called gallsickness, is a disease of domestic and wild animals, caused...
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Sexual discrimination
Sexual roles tend to be fixed by most societies, but in different ways. Most 'western'...
The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential was initiated in 1972 following a collaboration between two international non-profits, the Union of International Associations (UIA) and Mankind 2000. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems humanity is confronted with, as well as the challenges such problems pose to societies' values, development strategies and concept formation.
The online version of the resource is currently undergoing significant transformation, and the publishing model is changing in exciting new ways. The main points are:
- Whilst the above NGOs remain equal copyright holders of the data, it is becoming possible for partners to re-publish any content on presentation sites under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-SA)
- Content of the database is being made centrally editable at edit.ewphp.org — to allow content changes on this site to propagate to any and all presentation sites
Please feel free to get in touch if you want to know more about the project, the ongoing transformation, or if you aspire to join the volunteer team as a database editor, presentation site developer or any other skill you feel might benefit the project!
News
- March 2016: An initial version of an API that allows retrieval and licensed re-use of the data is ready at demo.ewphp.org. We are currently working with selected developers, and a first public implementation of the API is taking shape as well. News about launch of both will follow soon!
- June 2015: Read the paper and presentation "Loop Mining in the Encyclopedia of World Problems" prepared for the 17th International Futures Conference "Futures Studies Tackling Wicked Problems" in Turku, Finland, 11-12. June 2015 — www.futuresconference.fi/2015