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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Lost knowledge

Lost knowledge

Broader

Ignorance
Excellent
Loss of cultural diversity
Presentable

Narrower

Loss of cultural heritage
Yet to rate
Evidence decay
Yet to rate

Aggravates

Ignorance of traditional herbal remedies
Presentable
Lack of knowledge
Unpresentable
Inadequate application of available knowledge to solve problems
Yet to rate
Inaccessibility of knowledge
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Unmeaningful relationships to place
Presentable
Elimination of traditional skills
Presentable
Uncommunicative technical documentation
Unpresentable
Unretrievable documents
Yet to rate
Unrecorded knowledge
Yet to rate
Unexplored energy alternatives
Yet to rate
Incomplete skills information
Yet to rate
Hegemony of visual information
Yet to rate
Fragmentation of knowledge
Yet to rate

Related

Obsolete vocational skills
Presentable
Inaccessible religious records
Presentable

Strategy

Conserving vulnerable vegetable germplasm
Presentable
Preserving knowledge
Yet to rate

Value

Loss
Yet to rate
Knowledge
Yet to rate

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Content quality
Unpresentable
 Unpresentable
Language
English
1A4N
F5420
DOCID
11654200
D7NID
137480
Last update
Oct 4, 2020