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Human values

Reduction

Reduction

Reduced
Reductionistic

Broader

Increase-Decrease

Elevation-Depression

Bigness-Littleness

Problem

Unsustainable exploitation of fish resources

Social hardships of economic reform

Reduction of soil fertility downstream due to impoundment

Physical unfitness

Monopolization of agricultural genetic resources

Vulnerability of marriage as an institution

Unprepared leadership

Technological monoculture

Self-image unrelated to the external world

Restricted state support of the family

Restricted growth in export markets

Refusal of family possibilities

Reductionistic decision making criteria in the construction industry

Reduction of glacier size

Reduction in demand for primary commodities due to technological change

Reduction in building of nuclear power stations

Reduced investment in small inner-city enterprises

Reduced interior structure of families

Reduced dimension of the marriage covenant

Reduced activity of malnourished children

Lost family role in society

Loss of river silt

Legal contract system reduced to individual needs

Lack of quality

Lack of family life education

Inefficient public spending to alleviate poverty

Indecisive multilateralism

Inadequate income in old age

Falling rate of carbon sequestration

Extinction of rainforest species

Excessive leniency in sentencing of offenders

Decrease in ice cover

Declining economic productivity

Congenital limb reduction defects

Breakdown of local community cohesion

Reduction of working time

Reduction of workforce in enterprises

Reduction of ocean shipping services

Reduction of fallow periods on agricultural land

Reduced information distribution

Neglect of the aged

Monopolization of seed industry

Limited irrigation water

Inadequate military capability

Inadequate groundwater recharge

Habituation to unpleasant news

Economic loss through reduced productivity of diseased animals

Declining community population

Decline in genetic diversity of seed stocks

Subsistence life style

Reduction of diversity through policy

Reduction in symbolic celebrations

Reduced stock of low-income housing

Reduced images of humanness

Reduced images of environmental protection

Reduced agricultural reliance

Progressive reduction in government action commitment

Overemphasis on individual rights

Obstacles to redeployment of military resources for peaceful applications

Insufficient birth spacing in families

Infrequent achievement of honours

Increased reflection of solar radiation

Inadequate rainfall

Inadequate funding of international programmes

Government failure to prosecute offenders

Decreasing participation in collective religious worship

Decline in civic participation

Collapse in the meaning of participating in society

Brain shrinkage

Strategy

Strengthening United Nations coordination on poverty reduction programmes and pilot projects

Setting targets for reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases

Reducing waste at source

Establishing chemical risk reduction programmes

Adopting community right-to-know for environmental risk reduction

Supporting technical cooperation among developing countries on poverty reduction

Supporting adoption of chemical risk reduction procedures by enterprises

Setting priorities for chemicals risk reduction programmes

Revealing hidden transport component of consumer products

Reducing demand for drugs

Preparing waste minimization guidelines

Facilitating transfer of waste reduction technology

Evaluating poverty reduction programmes

Ensuring debt reduction packages support the evolving international debt strategy

Encouraging substantial bilateral debt reduction by creditor countries

Coordinating chemical risk reduction programmes

Considering medium-term debt reduction of debtor countries

Adopting community right-to-know programmes on chemical risk based on international guidelines

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(D) Destructive values

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

1A4N

D5357

DOCID

11453570

D7NID

193042

Editing link

Official link

https://encyclopedia.uia.org/value/reduction

Last update

Dec 2, 2024