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Uncoordinated expression of needs


Experimental visualization of narrower problems
Broader Problems:
Weak organization of community action
Insufficient means for community initiative
Lack of relationship between social techniques and the needs they address
Narrower Problems:
Unclear youth needs
Disputed health needs
Unplanned family needs
Inadequate career advice
Unsurveyed consumer needs
Unassessed corporate needs
Unrecognized needs for growth
Unsatisfied recreational needs
Production serving false consumption needs
Overemphasis on immediate superficial needs
Failure to adapt general initiatives to specific needs
Gap between material and technological needs and demands
Related Problems:
Gender-insensitive buildings
Personal need for recognition
Unnecessary personal consumption
Escaping societal needs by floating
Denial of rights of medical patients
Disrelated needs and promotion in marketing
Irresponsibility towards future generations
Commercial disregard of social responsibility
Insensitivity of transnational corporations to consumer needs
Non-responsiveness of transnational corporations to pharmaceutical needs
Aggravates:
Inadequate social welfare services
Inadequate response to societal needs
Devaluation of education by survival needs
Incomplete implementation of community decisions
Values:
Self-expression
Uncoordinated
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems
Subject(s):
Living conditions
Communication
Date of last update
11.05.2000 – 00:00 CEST

About the Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential is a collaboration between UIA and Mankind 2000, started in 1972. It is the result of an ambitious effort to collect and present information on the problems with which humanity is confronted, as well as the challenges such problems pose to concept formation, values and development strategies.  Problems included are those identified in international periodicals but especially in the documents of some 60,000 international non-profit organizations, profiled in the Yearbook of International Organizations.

The Encyclopedia includes problems which such groups choose to perceive and act upon, whether or not their existence is denied by others claiming greater expertise. Indeed such claims and counter-claims figure in many of the problem descriptions in order to reflect the often paralyzing dynamics of international debate. In the light of the interdependence demonstrated among world problems in every sector, emphasis is placed on the need for approaches which are sufficiently complex to encompass the factions, conflicts and rival worldviews that undermine collective initiative towards a promising future.

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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.
 

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

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