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  2. List of global issues - Wikipedia

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    Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero hunger, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Food Programme. Gender equality. Women's rights, global feminism. Commission on the Status of Women, Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Health. maternal health, extreme poverty. Millennium Development Goals.

  3. Problem solving - Wikipedia

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    Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities. Problems in need of solutions range from simple personal tasks (e.g. how to turn on an appliance) to complex issues in business and technical fields. The former is an example of simple problem solving (SPS) addressing one issue ...

  4. Collective action problem - Wikipedia

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    Collective action problem. A collective action problem or social dilemma is a situation in which all individuals would be better off cooperating but fail to do so because of conflicting interests between individuals that discourage joint action. [1][2][3] The collective action problem has been addressed in political philosophy for centuries ...

  5. Tragedy of the commons - Wikipedia

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    Articulating solutions to the tragedy of the commons is one of the main problems of political philosophy. [114] [115] In some situations, locals implement (often complex) social schemes that work well. [116] When these fail, there are many possible governmental solutions such as privatization, internalizing the externalities, and regulation. [116]

  6. Decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Decision-making can be regarded as a problem-solving activity yielding a solution deemed to be optimal, or at least satisfactory. It is therefore a process which can be more or less rational or irrational and can be based on explicit or tacit knowledge and beliefs. Tacit knowledge is often used to fill the gaps in complex decision-making ...

  7. Cynefin framework - Wikipedia

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    Cynefin framework. The Cynefin framework as revised. The Cynefin framework (/ kəˈnɛvɪn / kuh-NEV-in) [1] is a conceptual framework used to aid decision-making. [2] Created in 1999 by Dave Snowden when he worked for IBM Global Services, it has been described as a " sense-making device". [3][4] Cynefin is a Welsh word for 'habitat'. [5]

  8. Situational theory of problem solving - Wikipedia

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    The situational theory of problem solving attempts to explain why and how an individual communicates during a problematic situation. The situational theory of problem solving (STOPS) was proposed by Jeong-Nam Kim and James E. Grunig in 2011 though their article “problem solving and communicative action: A situational theory of problem solving

  9. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    Monty Hall problem. In search of a new car, the player chooses a door, say 1. The game host then opens one of the other doors, say 3, to reveal a goat and offers to let the player switch from door 1 to door 2. The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, based nominally on the American television game show Let ...