0. Overview / Summary

1. Significance of World Problems Project

• Acknowledgement of the universe of problems
• Constraints on a problem-focused approach
• Framework for interrelating incompatible perspectives
• Unique features
• Precedents and parallels
• Precedents in history and tradition

• Assumptions
• Problem disguises and problem evasion
• Definitions
• Problem inclusion
• Problem exclusion
• Problem importance

• Identification procedure
• Problem naming
• Document control and problem description
• Inter-problem relationships
• Conceptual processes summarized

4. Patterning problems

• Concept refinement process
• Classification and section attribution
• Language games
• Patterning the problematique
• Computer representation of problem networks

5. Comments

• General
• Approaches to problems
• Beyond the problem-lobby mindset
• Problem metaphors
• Future possibilities
• Problem perception and levels of awareness
• Integration of perceived problems
• Phases of human development through challenging problems
• Future possibilities

• 1976-1995 : modification to problems (1994)
• 1998: world problems and strategies
• 1996-2000
• 2000: loops (Feedback Loops Linking World Problems).