A preliminary investigation into the variety of time concepts in sustainability : Mixture of past,present and future

Climate Change and Sustainability Issues have become one of the major scientific and political concerns among the global communities. A look at the various usages of time, especially, of future in IPCC’s reports and other related documents, shows that there are several kinds of time concepts regarding future. In this paper, I venture to investigate into a question of what sort of time concepts are employed in the scientific discussions concerning climate changes and sustainability studies by taking a few cases...