Over-emphasis on immediate solutions in resource development research

Research in resource development and cooperation is carried out as a response to the immediate situation, and fails to anticipate sufficiently the needs and problems of the future in relation to accessory improvements. Such research tends to be limited by national and corporate interests, to the exclusion of those in greatest need.

1. When the government's remedies do not match the problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy.

1. Unimplemented environmental models
2. Nationalistically determined development of natural resources
3. Limited social context in developing technology
4. Inadequate research on proposed solutions to problems

1. Shift to short-term research funding
2. Irrelevant scientific activity
3. Inadequate research and development on problems of development
4. Exaggeration of merits of particular solutions

1. Domination of government policy-making by short-term considerations

1. Emphasis on economic priorities in research

1. Researching economic development
2. Altering immediacy syndrome