Problem
Inadequate grass-roots initiative
Other Names:
Nonexistent community development groupsInadequate local initiative
Lack of conscious initiatives
Unproductive grass-roots planning
Nature:
Small, grass-roots movements, which are often unpopular at their inception, play a vital role in society. They provide a critical opposition to established ideas. They encourage free speech. A lively process of community self-government depends on a series of ad hoc political and service groups, functioning freely, each with a proper chance to test its ideas before the townspeople. But such movements need a place to manifest themselves in a way which puts their ideas directly into the public domain. As a rule these groups are small and have very little money; and communities on the whole do not provide them with space to voice and propagate their ideas or to hold meetings.
Narrower Problems:
Lack of systems for achieving grassroots agreement Related Problems:
Political apathy Aggravates:
Insufficient nuclear weapon free zonesUnderemphasis on local economic developmentLack of grassroots involvement in economic planningLack of participation from local communities in democratic processes Strategies:
Educating home-owners to use renewable energyEstablishing community development corporationImproving grass-roots initiativeImproving grass-roots initiative Subject(s):
Society → PeopleSociety → Communities
Society → Local
Societal Problems → Inadequacy
Societal Problems → Scarcity
Management → Planning
Economics → Productivity
Development → Development
Consciousness → Consciousness
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
11.10.2017 – 16:31 CEST