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  3. Balancing consumption against social necessity

Balancing consumption against social necessity

  • Supporting inclusive equilibriums

Description

Balancing consumption against social necessity involves aligning resource use and consumer behavior with the genuine needs of society, rather than excess or waste. This strategy prioritizes essential goods and services, curbs overconsumption, and redirects resources to address critical shortages or inequities. Practical actions include setting consumption limits, promoting sustainable alternatives, and implementing policies that ensure equitable distribution, thereby remedying problems of resource depletion, environmental degradation, and social disparity.This information has been generated by artificial intelligence.

Broader

Working for the common good
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Controlling consumption plans
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Supporting-Opposing
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Narrower

Transmitting operative philosophies
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Facilitating social uses
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Ensuring decent living standards
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Constrains

Revealing imbalances in priorities for resource consumption
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Demanding application of market theory
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Challenging reductionisms in assessing consumption needs
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Constrained by

Setting appropriate fashion for consumption of goods and services
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Exposing differences in theoretical systems of economic development
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Facilitates

Rehearsing necessary economic planning context
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Establishing priority needs for consumption of goods and services
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Encouraging intentionality in consumption of resources
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Directing economic planning process
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Clarifying priority context for consumption of goods and services
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Articulating perspective on consumption of economic goods and services
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Balancing-Deranging
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Facilitated by

Setting priorities for consumption
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Providing incentives to economic development
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Maintaining minimal consumption requirements
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Creating futures markets
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Value

Unsociable
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Overconsumption
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Noninclusive
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Necessity
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Imbalance
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Consumption
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SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #3: Good Health and Well-beingSustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
Global strategies
Type
(C) Cross-sectoral strategies
Subject
Content quality
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Language
English
1A4N
Q8471
DOCID
12784710
D7NID
196989
Editing link
Official link
https://encyclopedia.uia.org/strategy/balancing-consumption-against-social-necessity
Last update
May 20, 2022