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Lack of systems for achieving grassroots agreement

Visualization of narrower problems

Name(s):

Unclear community consensus

Nature

The processes of engaging in society as a part of a group of people is ineffective in the modern urban world.

There is a widespread sense that individuals do not have enough power to occasion change and that local public officials do not have a clear sense of the will of the whole community. Misunderstandings and anxiety about decisions being made results in the circulation of conflicting stories, frustrates residents, and inhibits constructive input, all of which makes it difficult to build a cohesive image of the extended community.

Claim

Until effective structures are built to create and determine the local consensus, serious development of rural areas will be unable to move beyond inertia to creative action.

Broader

Unclarity

Inadequate grass-roots initiative

Insufficient means for community initiative

Narrower

Political immaturity

Deficient communal mandate

Unwanted telephone referendum

Insufficient agency cooperation

Ineffective techniques for achieving consensus

Inadequacy of the committee system of decision making

Aggravates

Unprepared leadership ^{[in 10 loops]}

Unfair local tax increase

Undemocratic policy-making ^{[in 17 loops]}

Fragmented decision-making ^{[in 12 loops]}

Uncoordinated policy-making ^{[in 35 loops]}

Regional imbalance of power ^{[in 3 loops]}

Inadequate building standards ^{[in 2 loops]}

Undermined citizen confidence ^{[in 10 loops]}

Ineffective pricing participation

Disconnected community initiatives ^{[in 2 loops]}

Uninformed community decision making ^{[in 1 loop]}

Victimization of grassroots knowledge ^{[in 4 loops]}

Unformed pattern of cooperative action ^{[in 3 loops]}

Inadequate environmental impact assessment ^{[in 1 loop]}

Ineffective utilization of public environment

Disengagement of citizens from community activities ^{[in 18 loops]}

Aggravated by

Inadequate meeting methods

Restrictive patterns of tradition-bound lifestyle

Unstructured local government in small communities

Strategy(ies)

Creating local community consensus

Increasing effectiveness of systems for achieving grassroots agreement

Abstaining from community consensus

Value(s)

Type

(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems

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