Author: Alan A. Lew, Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Northern Arizona University, Arizona, USA
Published in: Tourism Geographies, Volume 12, Issue 3, August 2010, pages 481 - 483
There are many barriers to sustainable development, including
* just defining what sustainable development is;
* trying to making connections between sustainability issues that exist at different scales (from personal to community to global);
* trying to make connections between sustainability issues that exist in different industries and activities (total life-cycle costing issues); and
* deciding how to properly balance environmental, social and ecological issues.
Most of these issues are mentioned in the literature on sustainable development (including my study area of sustainable tourism) in some way or another. One major challenge, however, that seems to never come up is the limitation of the human perception of time. 'Be here now' is, unfortunately, how most of us behave too much of the time. ...
* just defining what sustainable development is;
* trying to making connections between sustainability issues that exist at different scales (from personal to community to global);
* trying to make connections between sustainability issues that exist in different industries and activities (total life-cycle costing issues); and
* deciding how to properly balance environmental, social and ecological issues.
Most of these issues are mentioned in the literature on sustainable development (including my study area of sustainable tourism) in some way or another. One major challenge, however, that seems to never come up is the limitation of the human perception of time. 'Be here now' is, unfortunately, how most of us behave too much of the time. ...
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To cite this Article: Lew, Alan A. (2010) 'Time as a Major Barrier to Sustainable Development', Tourism Geographies, 12:3, 481 - 483
