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Displacement of ethics by aesthetics

Broader Problems:
Haphazard forms of social ethics
Related Problems:
Mis-oriented facilities
Dissatisfaction with personal image
Environmental impacts of the use of wind power
Aggravates:
Prettification of nature
Unjustified urban conservation
Unstructured beautification plans
Fashion-motivated use of animals and plants
Fashion-motivated use of animals and plants
Ill-considered pressure to eliminate nakedness in indigenous cultures
Misappropriation of resources for high cost civil engineering projects
Reduces:
Landscape disfigurement
Monotonous and unaesthetic architecture and design
Unaesthetic location of advertising billboards
Strategies:
Displacing ethics by aesthetics
Advocating ethics above aesthetics
Subject(s):
Innovative change → Change
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a unique, experimental research work of the Union of International Associations. It is currently published as a searchable online platform with profiles of world problems, action strategies, and human values that are interlinked in novel and innovative ways. These connections are based on a range of relationships such as broader and narrower scope, aggravation, relatedness and more. By concentrating on these links and relationships, the Encyclopedia is uniquely positioned to bring focus to the complex and expansive sphere of global issues and their interconnected nature.

The initial content for the Encyclopedia was seeded from UIA’s Yearbook of International Organizations. UIA’s decades of collected data on the enormous variety of association life provided a broad initial perspective on the myriad problems of humanity. Recognizing that international associations are generally confronting world problems and developing action strategies based on particular values, the initial content was based on the descriptions, aims, titles and profiles of international associations.

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The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was established in 1907, by Henri la Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.
 

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