Lack of systems for achieving grassroots agreement

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.

1. 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.

1. Unclarity
2. Insufficient means for community initiative
3. Inadequate grass-roots initiative

1. Unwanted telephone referendum
2. Political immaturity
3. Insufficient agency cooperation
4. Ineffective techniques for achieving consensus
5. Inadequacy of the committee system of decision making
6. Deficient communal mandate

1. Victimization of grassroots knowledge
2. Unprepared leadership
3. Uninformed community decision making
4. Unformed pattern of cooperative action
5. Unfair local tax increase
6. Undeveloped recreation space
7. Undermined citizen confidence
8. Undemocratic policy-making
9. Uncoordinated policy-making
10. Regional imbalance of power
11. Ineffective pricing participation
12. Inadequate environmental impact assessment
13. Inadequate building standards
14. Fragmented decision-making
15. Disengagement of citizens from community activities
16. Disconnected community initiatives

1. Unstructured local government in small communities
2. Restrictive patterns of tradition-bound lifestyle
3. Inadequate meeting methods

1. Unadapted community structures
2. Structural failure of citizen participation

1. Increasing effectiveness of systems for achieving grassroots agreement
2. Creating local community consensus
3. Abstaining from community consensus

1. Unclear
2. Lack
3. Disagreement
4. Community
5. Anticommunity
6. Agreement
7. Ineffectiveness