Do a Literature Review
There is hardly a ~roblem without some academic discipline or professional
association doing research on its causes and solutions. It is easy to find journals
and various professional publications disseminating research results, theories, case
studies, the musings of experienced practitioners, and so on. The Internet brings
much of this to your desktop, bur some of the best vehicles are better accessed
by browsing the periodical shelves of university or government libraries.
Advocacy organizations often publish a great deal of interesting work and
may take special pains to disseminate their work on the Internet. However, there
is a danger of relying too much on such sources just because they are readily
available.