What Future Contributions Can or Offer to Improve the World Understanding of Global Problems

Raw Materials

Developing Countries

Energy

Food Shortage

Population Explosion

The process of studying global problems and building models to analyze them is an OR exercise. In this paper we conceptualize the OR approach to this type of problem and characterize some specific approaches which are available and are in operation. We also give the details of one of these approaches with which we have been directly involved.