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  2. List of global issues - Wikipedia

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    This list of global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread social issues, economic issues, and environmental issues. Organizations that maintain or have published an official list of global issues include the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.

  3. Social issue - Wikipedia

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    Personal issues are those that individuals deal with themselves and within a small range of their peers and relationships. [2] Personal issues can be any life-altering event. On the other hand, social issues involve values cherished by widespread society. [2] For example, a high unemployment rate that affects millions of people is a social issue.

  4. Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

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    The 1st edition, initiated in 1972 and published in 1976, has one volume entitled Yearbook of World Problems and Human Potential, comprising thirteen sections, several of which have not appeared in subsequent editions. [11] [18] The 2nd edition, initiated in 1983 and published in 1986, was titled Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential.

  5. Environmental issues - Wikipedia

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    Environmental issues are disruptions in the usual function of ecosystems. [1] Further, these issues can be caused by humans ( human impact on the environment ) [ 2 ] or they can be natural. These issues are considered serious when the ecosystem cannot recover in the present situation, and catastrophic if the ecosystem is projected to certainly ...

  6. Social Problems - Wikipedia

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    Social Problems are universal in nature, but their intensity and type change from society to society. Social problems are socially relative. It is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press since 2015 and formerly published by University of California Press .

  7. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - Wikipedia

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    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."

  8. The personal is political - Wikipedia

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    The essay was published under the title, "The Personal Is Political," in Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation in 1970. The essay's author believes that Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt, the book's editors, gave the essay its famous title. [11] The essay has since been reprinted in Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader. [12]

  9. List of public policy topics by country - Wikipedia

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