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Setting appropriate fashion for consumption of goods and services

Synonyms:
Defining acceptable lifestyle standards
Broader:
Establishing standards
Narrower:
Living simply
Promoting desirability of universal lifestyle
Constrains:
Balancing consumption against social necessity
Providing flexible patterns of family lifestyle
Constrained by:
Registering current demands
Facilitates:
Operating a fashion house
Designing products that serve real needs
Reducing lifestyle overdemand on resources
Facilitated by:
Studying lifestyles
Studying lifestyle diseases
Protesting lifestyle disparity
Assessing environmental consequences of human attitudes
Restricting through patterns of tradition-bound lifestyle
Problems:
Obsession with novelty
Values:
Consumption
Overconsumption
Inappropriateness
Subjects:
Amenities → Consumption
Commerce → Merchandise
Design → Fashion
Experiential Activity → Experiential activity
Research, Standards → Standards
Social Activity → Services
Type Classification:
F: Exceptional strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
GOAL 1: No PovertyGOAL 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

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.

About UIA

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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