Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

The "Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential" has been published since 1972 by the Union of International Associations (UIA), under the direction of Anthony Judge. It can be found in [http://www.uia.org/encyclopedia/volall.php three book volumes] , on [http://www.uia.org/encyclopedia/encd.php CD-ROM] , and [http://www.diversitas.org/db/x.php online] .

The Encyclopedia includes the following databases:
* World Problems - Issues
* Global Strategies - Solutions
* Human Values
* Human Development
* Patterns and Metaphors
* Bibliography (issues)
* Integrative Concepts

The work includes not only thousands of interrelated information items, but also extensive commentaries sections that offer profound essays on how to deal with this information. Richard A. Slaughter wrote in the journal "Futures", May 1992:

The significance of this work is not its size or the scope of its references, impressive though these are. It is rather in the nature of what has been attempted. To this extent the term 'encyclopedia' is misleading. Readers will not find an easily digested selection of material on 'problems' or 'potentials' such as they might expect from a more commercial publication. (...) To begin with, there are about 60 pages of closely printed introduction wherein lie the keys to this work. They contain some of the most cogent observations about the dimensions and representations of the global problematique that I have ever seen. Indeed, they are good enough to be published separately.

ee also

*Yearbook of International Organizations
*International Congress Calendar
*List of online encyclopedias

External links

* [http://www.uia.org/encyclopedia/ Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential]
* [http://www.diversitas.org/db/x.php Online edition of the Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.uia.be/en/node/146 Selected reviews of the Encyclopedia]


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