ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

Human values

Lack

Lack

Lacking

Broader

Presence-Absence

Perfection-Imperfection

Problem

Unproductive subsistence agriculture

Undervaluation of systematic biology

Uncoordinated international river basin development

Threatened species of Plantae

Stagnated development of agricultural production

Shortage of natural resources

Protein-energy malnutrition

Physical unfitness

Obstacles to aquaculture

Menstrual disadvantage of women

Lack of skilled manpower in rural areas

Lack of realism in intergovernmental organizations

Lack of programme methods

Lack of production for domestic consumers

Lack of male libido

Lack of job satisfaction

Lack of incentive to care for community property

Lack of appreciation of cultural differences

Lack of a religious centre

Inadequate social and demographic statistics

Inadequate management of refuse

Inadequate integrated freshwater management

Inadequate health services

Inadequate drought control

Inadequacy of foreign aid

Inadequacy of economic accounting systems

Inadequacies of the international monetary system

Human immunodeficiency virus infection

Denial of social rights

Denial of right to education

Dehumanization of death

Deficient business leadership

Decreasing diversity of biological species

Crop vulnerability

Addiction to sex

Young people's lack of context for the future

Vulnerability of women and children in emergencies

Vulnerability of telephone systems

Vulnerability of marriage as an institution

Urinary incontinence

Unstructured local government in small communities

Unstable supply of raw materials

Unsatisfied need for continuing education

Unreported births

Unperceived relevance of formal education in rural communities

Unformed pattern of cooperative action

Unethical practice of health professionals

Unequal opportunity for vocational training

Underutilized animal genetic resources

Underdevelopment of countries

Underdeveloped community leadership

Undemocratic social systems

Unbridled individualism

Technological underdevelopment

Student immobility

Structural rigidities in labour markets

Soil compaction

Social underdevelopment

Social fragmentation

Social disaffection of the young

Shortage of hardwood

Shortage of entrepreneurial ability

Short-range planning for long-term development

Sexual unfulfilment

Sexual discrimination

Sedentary city lifestyles

Scientific ignorance

Sacrifice of political ideals

Risk of capital investment

Retarded socialization

Restricted state support of the family

Restricted scope of local employment

Restricted delivery of essential services to rural communities

Religious schism

Reinforced parochialism of internal values and images

Proliferation and duplication of United Nations information systems

Polluted drinking water

Political fragmentation

Political apathy

Permissive child-rearing

Paralysis of elders faced with the future

Over-specialization

Official secrecy

Non-convertibility of currencies

Noise pollution

Neglect of the role of women in rural development

Meaninglessness

Maldistribution of agricultural land

Low self esteem

Loss of female libido

Limited farm mechanization

Limited available land

Limited agricultural advice

Limitations of allopathy

Lack of women in the advertising industry

Lack of wisdom system

Lack of vocational teachers

Lack of urgency in village operations

Lack of UN jurisdiction in administered territories

Lack of transparency in public finances

Lack of transparency in international organizations

Lack of training in construction techniques in mountainous conditions

Lack of technical infrastructure for maritime commerce in developing countries

Lack of symbolism in local relationships

Lack of support for local commercial services

Lack of social discipline

Lack of sharing of community skills

Lack of sanitation in rural areas

Lack of sanitation in cities

Lack of rural industrialization

Lack of response to monetary incentives

Lack of relevant education in rural communities

Lack of relationship between wealth generation and the public good

Lack of racial identity

Lack of quality

Lack of qualitative excellence

Lack of professional standards

Lack of processing industry for primary commodities

Lack of private sector involvement in biodiversity conservation

Lack of press freedom

Lack of political will

Lack of political neutrality of civil servants

Lack of physical education

Lack of payment for housework

Lack of participation in development

Lack of participation by local communities in democratic processes

Lack of parental fulfilment

Lack of opportunities for practical training in communities

Lack of medical records

Lack of meaningful personal and social paradigms

Lack of local services for community leadership training

Lack of local commercial services

Lack of legal aid facilities

Lack of international accord on water use

Lack of integration of transport systems between neighbouring developing countries

Lack of integrated pollution control

Lack of integrated management of biodiversity

Lack of individualism in capitalist systems

Lack of individualism

Lack of individual historical context

Lack of identity of international nongovernmental organization network

Lack of grassroots involvement in economic planning

Lack of funerals for dead foetuses

Lack of folic acid in diet

Lack of financial information systems for international nongovernmental organizations

Lack of finance in coastal communities

Lack of farming information

Lack of family planning information

Lack of family life education

Lack of facilities for educating older people

Lack of facilities for disturbed children

Lack of emphasis on basic education

Lack of education

Lack of economic adaptation of indigenous systems

Lack of demolition planning

Lack of comparability of international statistics

Lack of community responsibility

Lack of community plan

Lack of coastal development

Lack of child care for working parents

Lack of channels for obtaining available local funding

Lack of capital development

Lack of appropriate education for children of immigrants

Lack of appreciation for nuclear weapons

Lack of adherence to international transit conventions

Lack of access to public archives

Lack of a world food security system

Iron deficiency anaemias

International insecurity

International economic fragmentation

Intellectual inefficiency

Intellectual disability

Insufficient technical aids for disabled persons

Insufficient primary education

Insecurity of mobile telephone communication

Inequality of employment opportunity

Inefficiency of state-controlled enterprises

Ineffective systems of practical education

Inadequate watershed management

Inadequate water system infrastructure

Inadequate waste incineration

Inadequate transport systems for isolated islands

Inadequate training in decision-making

Inadequate research on proposed solutions to problems

Inadequate recreational facilities

Inadequate prison capacity

Inadequate maternal and child health care

Inadequate maintenance equipment

Inadequate industrial retraining programmes

Inadequate human resources development

Inadequate grass-roots initiative

Inadequate firearm regulation

Inadequate family planning education

Inadequate facilities for children's play

Inadequate existing symbols for marriage

Inadequate evaluation of surgical procedures

Inadequate energy supply infrastructure

Inadequate educational facilities for gifted children

Inadequate control over government administrative process

Inadequate child day-care facilities

Inadequate budgetary coordination within the United Nations systems

Inadequate army discipline

Inadequate administration of aid

Inadequacy of psychiatry

Inadequacy of contraceptive methods

Inadequacy and insensitivity of intelligence testing

Inaccessibility of justice

Ignored social needs of developing countries

Human wisdom considered unrelated to daily life

Habitual overemphasis on national self-determination

Governmental barriers to a global ethic

Fragmentation of religious belief

Felt community powerlessness

Excessive dependence of local communities on outside services

Environmental hazards of decommissioned nuclear power plants

Education vocationally irrelevant

Economic inefficiency

Dominance of economic motives

Discrimination against women in education

Deterioration of development process

Deteriorating rural community cooperation

Dependence of communities on external planning

Denial of rights of medical patients

Denial of right of complaint

Defective land use planning

Decreasing consumer choice

Declining economic productivity

Decline of handicrafts and cottage industries

Decline in employer-provided pensions

Cultural fragmentation

Corporation financial secrecy

Community demoralization

Communication breakdown

Cold as an occupational hazard

After-school unsupervised children

Absence of agreed minimum wage

Worktime limits to education

Unregulated outdoor work

Unproven relationships among problems

Unprofessional personal appearance

Unorganized community recreation

Unknown conservation systems

Unimplemented decisions

Unhygienic conditions

Unfair contests

Unemployed skilled labour

Undomesticated men

Undiversified national economies

Undesignated garden space

Underutilization of biocontrol

Underdevelopment of forestry industry

Undemocratic policy-making

Uncoordinated agency referral

Unchallenging world vision

Unavailable road machinery

Unavailability of appropriate expertise

Terminological ambiguities

Substandard abattoirs

Shortage of women instructors

Shortage of skilled transport workers

Shifting site of employment

Secrecy about pharmaceutical products

Scarce local cash

Restriction of abortion

Reduced stock of low-income housing

Psychological inertia

Poor managerial communications

Political immaturity

Pernicious anaemia

Overemphasis on economic progress in society

Overcrowded public clinics

Non-inclusive management decisions

Non-cooperation

Neglect of worker health

Mistrust of police

Military unreadiness

Mediocrity of government leaders

Loss of faith in religion

Loss of cultural heritage

Limited opportunities for significant work

Limited funding expertise

Limited functional abilities

Lack of worker participation in business decision-making

Lack of war relief

Lack of variety of social life forms

Lack of vaccines

Lack of university summer programme

Lack of unity among Christians

Lack of understanding

Lack of tuberculosis materials

Lack of transport vehicles

Lack of trans-frontier cooperation

Lack of trained firefighters

Lack of traffic information

Lack of trade union recognition

Lack of terminological equivalents among languages

Lack of telephone system

Lack of technological progress

Lack of systems for achieving grassroots agreement

Lack of specifically designed software

Lack of specialized technology

Lack of solidarity with the poor

Lack of social identity

Lack of social contact

Lack of social conscience

Lack of social commitment

Lack of shared machinery

Lack of sexual liberty

Lack of semantic equivalents among languages

Lack of self-confidence

Lack of secondary schools in the countryside

Lack of school transportation

Lack of savings structures

Lack of satisfaction

Lack of returnee jobs

Lack of retraining incentives

Lack of representation

Lack of religious discipline

Lack of relationship between social techniques and the needs they address

Lack of relationship between education and available jobs

Lack of regular habit

Lack of refuse bins

Lack of refrigeration facilities

Lack of qualifications

Lack of progress in establishing a New International Economic Order

Lack of programmes for dropouts

Lack of processing facilities

Lack of practical examples

Lack of political integrity

Lack of political independence

Lack of places in urban environments encouraging unstructured public access

Lack of pioneer spirit

Lack of perspective

Lack of personal transport in rural areas

Lack of patriotism

Lack of participation in local welfare programmes

Lack of NGO access to official documents of the United Nations

Lack of nearby wells

Lack of national unity

Lack of national legal provision for international nongovernmental organizations

Lack of national identity

Lack of motivating collegial relationships

Lack of modernization

Lack of models of equality

Lack of method in training

Lack of medical information

Lack of meaningful educational context for ethical decisions

Lack of lumber tools

Lack of long-term development assistance

Lack of local tractors

Lack of local industries

Lack of livelihood standards

Lack of leadership initiative

Lack of knowledge of eligibility for benefits

Lack of irrigation equipment

Lack of intimate relationships

Lack of intersocietal resource channels

Lack of international understanding

Lack of international policy on specific issues

Lack of international legal provision for nongovernmental organizations

Lack of international coordination of interest rates

Lack of international cooperation

Lack of international communication

Lack of internal political independence

Lack of integration of regulatory programmes into other socio-economic programmes

Lack of integrated medicine

Lack of integrated energy resource management

Lack of insurance against infertility

Lack of influential backers

Lack of individual rights to political asylum

Lack of individual initiative

Lack of individual development

Lack of incentives for tourism

Lack of housing for teachers in rural communities

Lack of historical record

Lack of hiring money

Lack of health-aide backup

Lack of health insurances

Lack of governmental support

Lack of government initiative

Lack of genetic counselling

Lack of gene banks

Lack of funds for veterinary research

Lack of funds for medical research

Lack of funds for education

Lack of funding structures

Lack of funding for infrastructure

Lack of full cost accounting of consumer products

Lack of footware

Lack of firefighting water

Lack of fire insurance

Lack of financial control

Lack of family restaurants

Lack of enforcement power

Lack of education on human rights

Lack of education for women immigrants

Lack of dairy markets

Lack of corporate achievements

Lack of coordination

Lack of cooperation with officialdom

Lack of control

Lack of contract power

Lack of continuity among personnel of international organizations

Lack of consensus in regional disputes

Lack of confidence of parents

Lack of confidence in the international monetary system

Lack of community voice

Lack of commitment to common symbols

Lack of collective housing schemes

Lack of co-worker attunement

Lack of child welfare institutions

Lack of cesspool fencing

Lack of celibacy

Lack of car pools

Lack of business opposition to the arms race

Lack of biocoenosis

Lack of assimilation

Lack of assertiveness

Lack of arbitrating in the commodity markets

Lack of appropriate language to describe female experience

Lack of anti-discrimination legislation

Lack of an acceptable universal language

Lack of agro-urban training

Lack of adequate clothing supply for little people and large people

Lack of a world religion

Lack of a world government

Lack of a system for ethical decision-making

Lack of a governing body

Intellectual vacuum

Intellectual arrogance

Insufficient personnel

Insufficient maritime rescue services

Insufficient information on plants

Insufficient educational incentives

Insufficient apprenticeship opportunities

Infrequent honour singing

Infrequent achievement of honours

Influencelessness

Inefficient public administration

Ineffective monitoring

Ineffective legal system

Inadequate vocational training

Inadequate toilet facilities

Inadequate sports equipment

Inadequate social reform

Inadequate power of intergovernmental organizations

Inadequate personal hygiene

Inadequate manpower planning

Inadequate legislation against environmental pollution

Inadequate fiscal policies

Inadequate facilities for youth

Inadequate environmental education

Inadequate emergency services

Inadequate dissemination of local information

Inadequate development of international criminal law

Inadequate credit policies

Inadequate bridge plan

Inadequate agricultural capital

Inadequacy of postal services

Inadequacy of agricultural education

Ignoring implications of biblical scholarship

Ignorance of health and hygiene

Ignorance of ecoregions

Ideological confusion

Ideological conflict

Fragmented social care at the neighbourhood level

Fragmentation of knowledge

Excessive dispersion of community facilities

Educational gap between generations

Economic dependence

Drained social urgency

Disruptive behaviour in schools

Disengagement of citizens from community activities

Difficulty finding marriage partner

Denial of legal representation

Denial of freedom of thought

Decline of psychic healing

Copper deficiency in the diet

Contempt for authority

Constrained representation of global interests

Conflicting interpretations of universal human rights

Conflicting international priorities

Collapse of common values

Collapse in the meaning of participating in society

Bureaucratic resistance to self-review

Absence of organization training

Strategy

Studying causes of lack of solidarity with the poor

Providing sufficient daily physical activity in urban environments

Protesting lack of integration of environmental and economic issues

Campaigning for environmental protection laws

Banning hazardous waste exports to countries lacking safe handling capability

Addressing governmental resistance in response to problems

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #10: Reduced Inequality

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(D) Destructive values

Subject

Societal problems » Scarcity

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

Last update

Dec 2, 2024