CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Edited by the Union of International Associations, Published by K.G. Saur Munchen.

Volume 3: Actions - Strategies - Solutions

4th edition, 1994-95, 1 vol., 928 pages, hardcover. ISBN 3-598-11227-0. (Individual volume price : DM 548; US$ 245; £280).

Volume 2: Human Potential: Transformation and Values

4th edition, 1994-95, 1 vol., 928 pages, hardcover. ISBN 3-598-11226-2. (Individual volume price : DM 548; US$ 245; £280).

Volume 1: World Problems

4th edition, 1994-95, 1 vol., 1,258 pages, hardcover. ISBN 3-598-11225-4. (Individual volume price : DM 548; US$ 245; £280).

The profiles and associated networks and relationships outlined in the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential are usually created from publicly available sources of information. Through a participative process, this information is continuously revised, taking into account insights from new and emergent bodies of opinion, and from perspectives commonly articulated in public debate.

Most encyclopedias focus only on positive, sanitized aspects of society, presenting an idealized worldview that denies the shadow of humanity. The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential attempts to present the world as people experience it, whether negatively or positively. The phenomena described are those which inspire both hopes and fears, whether real or imaginary, about the world's future. They constitute a challenge to creative remedial action, functioning as a powerful stimulus to the development of society.

Figure 1. Tentative set of strategy "action qualifiers" organized in the light of strategy clusters (see also equivalent table for "problems")

Nature (being)

This section provides tables and typologies of strategies related to the Global Strategies and Solutions area of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Related Sections

• Strategy "action qualifiers" organized in the light of strategy clusters

Use the links in the Table of Contents to navigate through the content.

1. Challenge to consensus: opposition to answers

1. Interaction between opposites

William Irwin Thompson, a cultural historian, has sharpened considerably the ecology-sensitive intuition concerning the psycho-social lessons to be learned from cooperation between co-evolving systems (1982). He stresses the importance of an appropriate understanding of the interaction between opposites by citing E F Schumacher: