Community Essay: Challenges for sustainability in cultures where regard for the future may not be present
A concept of time depends upon both culture and linguistics, and one person’s future may be another person’s present. Temporal and spatial concepts are crucial to sustainability issues and a concept of “the future” may depend upon ethnicity, linguistic background, lifestyle, and life expectancy. Man...
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| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2006-08-01
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| Series: | Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy |
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| Online Access: | http://ejournal.nbii.org/archives/vol2iss2/communityessay.crabbe.html |