Crowdsourced backend of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
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Discrimination against men
Discrimination against men arises in certain circumstances in employment, education, public...
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Human sacrifice
The murder of human beings as part of a religious ritual has been most widely adopted by...
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Sepsis
Sepsis is the body’s often deadly response to infection or injury. Sepsis kills and disables...
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Medical quackery
Quackery is the use of primitive methods of medical treatment and healing by those who only...
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Shortage of fresh-water
The securing of an adequate water supply has become one of the most critical problems facing...
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Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis is one of the most common organic diseases affecting the nervous system. It...
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Ovarian cysts
Ovarian cysts are fluid-filled pockets or sacs within or on the surface of an ovary. They are...
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Escape from official detention
Escape is a person leaving official detention without authorization whether on his own or with...
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Thyroid disorders
The function of the thyroid gland is to regulate the body's metabolism. The thyroid gland is...
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Avarice
Avarice is the state of being in which an individual attaches such value to wealth and...
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Inappropriate tree plantations
A forest as an entity is a complex integrated, self-regulated system, very different from stands...
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Smallpox
Smallpox was an acute infectious disease, now eradicated globally. It was characterized by...
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Unethical practices in politics
Corrupt practices include tax evasion, nepotism, looting the national treasury, political...
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Misuse of agricultural chemicals
Modern agriculture is almost entirely reliant on agricultural chemicals for its levels of...
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Abandonment
Desertion of the aged, the sick, the deformed or crippled, the helpless, or of infants and...
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Myosistis
Myositis, also referred to as inflammatory myopathy, means inflammation of the muscles. There...
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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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Anthrax
An infectious bacterial disease, characterized by a high fever, enlarged spleen, swelling of the...
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Salmonellosis
The term salmonellosis covers a complex group of foodborne infections, caused by bacteria of the...
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Haemolytic disease of the newborn
Haemolytic disease can be fatal to a newborn child. It is caused by the incompatibility of the...
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Proliferation of lawyers
The number of lawyers is increasing in capitalist societies due to the promise of very high...
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Bronchial asthma
Bronchial asthma, named after the Greek word for breathlessness and panting, is an inflammatory...
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Scandal
Scandal arises when a member of a community, by actions or opinions goes against the commonly...
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Atheism
Atheism is the denial of a god or gods, in theory or in practice. As such it has frequently been...
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Disaster unpreparedness
The rescue and relief of the trapped, injured and homeless requires a great deal of coordination...
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Inadequate domestic refuse disposal
Existing houses and apartments do not usually provide satisfactory storage for the volume and...
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Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons are becoming smaller, deadlier and more precise. Information on their...
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Premature birth
Premature birth is the result of the precipitous ending of pregnancy before 37 weeks. The causes...
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Limited farm mechanization
Farming mechanization is generally regarded as one of the critical input variables for...
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Inappropriate irrigation schemes
Irrigation is as much a problem as a solution to improved agriculture. The majority of the world...
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Competitive acquisition of arms
The arms race has two characteristic features: One is the multiplication and proliferation of...
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Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is the fear of losing one's safe environment or the horror of being unable to escape...
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Cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) is a group of diseases in which protein deposits in blood...
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