A fenntarthatósági kritériumok térbeli diszkontálása
Spatial discounting of sustainability criteria

Summary/Abstract: As a result of their „consumption here and now”logic, consumer societies are characterised bysteep temporal and spatial discounting. Itprofoundly and negatively affects life prospectsof future generations. Researching thephenomenon of spatial discounting can help tounderstand why sustainability efforts of the pastdecades have been unsuccesful and thisknowledge may be the basis of more effectiveaction. Sustainability priorities of local leaders andspatial discounting of these priorities do not onlyaffect local conditions, but because of spillovereffects along spatial scales also the country and inaggregate the future of the whole planet. Fromglobal scale towards local, importance ofenvironmental protection and change of attitudeis spatially discounted by local leaders. In the caseof environmental protection the discounting issteep while for the change of attitude it ismoderate. The present study makes a uniquecontribution to the discounting literature asspatial discounting of sustainability priorities bylocal leaders has not been the subject of researcheither in Hungary or abroad.

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