Crowdsourced backend of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
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Disinformation
Disinformation is to communications what a diversion is to a military manoeuvre. It is...
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Babesiosis
Babesiosis attacks cattle, causing high temperatures, constipation alternating with diarrhoea,...
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Ethnocide
A culture may be suppressed by the prohibition of the use of its language, and the destruction...
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Unsustainable development of forest lands
A rapidly expanding world population is making increasing inroads into forest lands. Yet every...
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Drug resistant bacteria
Bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics when the drugs are used too often or when patients...
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Underprivileged religious minorities
Religious minorities may be persecuted or discriminated against by the religious majority group...
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Cerebral paralysis
Cerebral palsy is the medical term covering a whole group of neurological conditions. These...
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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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Sarcocystosis
Infestation with or disease caused by sporozoan protozoans of the genus Sarcocystis....
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Nuclear weapons testing
Nuclear explosions used to test new types of nuclear weapons cause pollution of the environment...
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Rodents as pests
Rodents are of public health importance as reservoirs of numerous diseases of man, and of...
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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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Socialist colonialism
Under the guise of international socialist cooperation some states dominated others militarily....
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Maldistribution of agricultural land
The inequitable distribution of land for cultivation in many countries is a major factor in...
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Investment fraud
International investment frauds may be broadly divided into four categories: container...
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Vulnerability of world genetic resources
The availability of broadly based gene pools is an essential condition for adaptation to...
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Personal wealth
Those with more wealth are able to make more out of it, to extend their power through...
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Lycanthropy
Lycanthropy is used in two senses: (a) as a psychological disorder in which the patient imagines...
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Lymphadenitis
Lymphadenitis and lymphangitis are common complications of bacterial infections. The infection...
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Violent sports fans
Wherever team sports are played, violence among the spectators is increasing, resulting in...
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Urolithiasis
Urinary stones, technically called urinary calculi, can occur anywhere in the urinary tract, in...
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Discrimination against women in the legal profession
Women barristers have to contend with widespread sex discrimination at the Bar from the moment...
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Asthma
Asthma is a disease involving airway inflammation. It is characterised by airway...
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Abortion-related deaths of mothers
As a growing number of non-communist countries outlaw abortion, the services available for women...
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Flight-related illness
Air travel has become an increasing source of pain, discomfort and illness among passengers and...
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Imperialism
The concept of imperialism basically designates the existence of relatively concentrated...
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Corporal punishment in schools
Schools may condone or even encourage the physical punishment of students. Hitting a child,...
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Human-caused climate change
For more than 10,000 years, and the entire history of human civilization, the climate has been...
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Boycott
Boycotting is a method of social ostracism, applied by organized or unorganized public opinion...
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Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
People with ADD display inappropriate degrees of inattention, impulsiveness and hyperactivity....
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Discrimination
Discrimination means any distinction, exclusion or preference that has the effect of nullifying...
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Show trials
A show trial is a judicial travesty whose real purpose is to manufacture propaganda.
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Malnutrition
Malnutrition can be defined as the lack of sufficient quantity or quality of nutrients to...
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