Problem
Prejudicial community self-reliance
Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Other Names:
Obsolete self-sufficiency patternsUnexercised responsibility for external relations
Nature:
Although consolidation of services at a regional level provides more effective delivery to all communities, it does require that communities open channels of access for receiving available resources and services. Incidence:
Although a wide range of services and funds are accessible, communities are hampered from developing these external relationships by several factors. The complexity of the legal procedures for obtaining some grants deters residents from requesting available funds. Land use issues involve baffling relationships with government and neighbours. Access to distant municipal and district services may be limited and awkward. Often police and fire detachments are located at a distance and crisis calls are hindered when shared telephone lines are busy. Medical care for the children may be provided from another district. Yet the heart of this problem lies neither in the distance from services nor in the complexity of procedures. Rather, it has to do with the a determination not to allow government dependency to inhibit self-reliance which is exaggerated into a near rejection of these benefits which others receive as a matter of right. Broader Problems:
Economic isolationismOveremphasis on self-sufficiency with respect to interdependenceRestrictive effects of tradition-bound community decision-making Narrower Problems:
Unexplored programme dataCross jurisdictional interestsDelays in planning authorizationReduced information distributionUnimagined fund-raising opportunitiesReluctant claims on external resourcesIncomplete understanding of new societal service systemsUnsystematic use of powerful relationships by rural communities Related Problems:
Unbridled individualism Aggravates:
Limited railroad usageInadequate external liaisonLimited access to society's resourcesUnpublicized educational possibilitiesUnequal access to education among countriesIncomplete utilization of external relationsLimitations on capital development in rural areasParalyzing patterns between villages and administrative structures Reduces:
Overdependence on governmentInadequate local government financingOver-acceptance of socio-economic dependency Strategies:
Updating self-sufficiency patternsRelying on community resourcesAccepting community dependencyExercising responsibility for external relations Subject(s):
Society → CommunitiesSocietal Problems → Obsolescence
Design → Patterns
Value Redistribution → Cooperative
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
01.05.2000 – 00:00 CEST