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  • Psychological intimidation

    The use of irrational fear or uncertainty to exploit others may be on an individual, group,...


  • Ethnic cleansing

    The implementation of procedures, usually by government, to ensure the physical resettlement or...


  • Unhealthy cities

    By the turn of the century, half the 6.2 billion population of the planet will be urban. The...


  • Sepsis

    Sepsis is the body’s often deadly response to infection or injury. Sepsis kills and disables...


  • Non-violent political revolution

    Political revolution may be achieved by peaceful means without recourse to arms, and may be...


  • Flash floods

    Flash floods, which have taken many lives and caused great property damage, are local floods of...


  • Constipation

    The failure to have regular and satisfactory bowel motions causes a mild poisoning of the system...


  • Ethnic discrimination

    Ethnic discrimination, legal or unofficial, against culturally distinguishable groups, on the...


  • Occupational burnout

    People, especially professionals engaged in work demanding extensive personal commitment, are...


  • Fainting

    With fainting, the subject changes from a normal to an unconscious state within seconds....


  • Political assassination

    A person may be assassinated for what he represents politically, when a government or any...


  • Infant mortality

    Children under 5 years of age are the population group at most risk from adverse environmental...


  • Mustard gas

    Mustard gas (HD) can cause itching and a painful inflammation similar to sunburn, large water-...


  • Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome

    The features of Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome are large cutaneous hemangiomata with...


  • Pulmonary oedema

    Pulmonary oedema gives symptoms of its onset in constant rattling noises proceeding from the...


  • Sexual abuse

    Sexual abuse is the involvement of dependent, developmentally immature children and adolescents...


  • Follicular cystic ovary disease

    Normally the egg develops within a cyst-like follicle on the ovary. This follicle bursts,...


  • Flight-related illness

    Air travel has become an increasing source of pain, discomfort and illness among passengers and...


  • Inadequate safeguards against fire

    Many features of building construction are closely related to fire safety. Although the modern...


  • Urban slums

    Urban slums

    The population of the world's cities has doubled in the last thirty years and will double again...


  • Dementia

    The term "dementia" is used by the medical community to describe people with impaired...


  • Poliomyelitis

    Polio is a very dangerous disease caused by a virus that attacks the intestinal tract and in a...


  • Misrepresentation of information to consumers

    Consumer fraud is a false or misleading representation of a material fact, whether by words or...


  • Lightning

    A large discontinuous discharge is produced through the air, generally under turbulent...


  • Undeveloped recreation space

    Despite the necessity for aesthetic and functional design of public areas in order to...


  • Inflammatory bowel disease

    Inflammatory bowel disease takes two forms: ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, both of...


  • Megatsunamis

    Whereas common tsunamis reach a maximum height of 10m, megatsunamis can reach 100 to 150m, a...


  • Crimes by the state

    International unlawful actions engaging the responsibility of a State towards other States or...


  • Inadequate road maintenance

    Sub-surface water may, by erosion or freezing and melting, cause cracks and breaks in roadways....


  • Sarcocystosis

    Infestation with or disease caused by sporozoan protozoans of the genus Sarcocystis....


  • Inadequate testing of drugs

    Manufactured drugs are not subject to the same quality controls as certain other commodities....


  • Cultural fragmentation

    Lack of cultural integration is the disharmony between cultural heritage and national identity....


  • Corrosion

    Most materials, particularly metals and alloys, when exposed to most environments, are affected...

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

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