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Human Needs
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Surplus product - Human needs
The corollary of increasing wealth in society, with rising productivity, is that human needs and wants expand
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Fundamental human needs
Development and Human Needs, p
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Fundamental human needs
Human needs can be understood as a system - i.e
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Fundamental human needs
Manfred Max-Neef and his colleagues developed a taxonomy of human needs and a process by which communities can identify their wealths and poverties according to how their fundamental human needs are satisfied.
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Fundamental human needs
This school of Human Scale Development is described as focused and based on the satisfaction of fundamental human needs, on the generation of growing levels of self-reliance, and on the construction of organic articulations of people with nature and technology, of global processes with local activity, of the personal with the social, of planning with autonomy, and of civil society with the state.Manfred Max-Neef, Antonio Elizalde, Martin Hopenhayn Human Scale Development: An Option for the Future (in Spanish--Max-Neef, Manfred, Antonio Elizalde y Martin Hopenhayn (1986), Desarrollo a Escala Humana - una opción para el futuro, Development Dialogue, número especial (CEPAUR y Fundación Dag Hammarskjold).) p.12.Manfred Max-Neef, Antonio Elizalde, Martín Hopenhayn
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Fundamental human needs
One of the applications is within the field of Strategic Sustainable Development where the individual Fundamental Human Needs (not the marketed needs) and the mechanics of the collective social system need satisfying in a sustainable society. Together with other aspects of the Framework including the (socio-ecological) sustainability principles it helps to plan and design for sustainability.
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Fundamental human needs - Classification of needs
Needs are also defined according to the existential categories of being, having, doing and interacting, and from these dimensions, a 36 cell matrix is developed [ Human Needs and Human-scale Development]
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Fundamental human needs - Research
Recent research appears to validate the existence of universal human needs.The Atlantic, [ Maslow 2.0: A New and Improved Recipe for Happiness]
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U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
The 'United States Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs' was a Select or special committee (United States Congress)|select committee of the United States Senate between 1968 and It was sometimes referred to as the 'McGovern committee', after its only chairperson, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota.
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U.S. Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs - End
Intense politicking took place as to which select or special committees would survive, and McGovern and Dole fought hard to preserve the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
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