need to describe the outcomes of environmental projects
projects will involve the entire community
Historical:
- past repeats itself
- main points can be addressed through understanding history
- events are cyclic
Modenity: future will be different than the past
Post-modernity (Harvey): there will be many versions of the truth and multiple conflicting "authorities",
Second-modernity (Gross): the future is uncertain and it will be different in ways we can't even predict
Retro-modernity (me): only versions of the future that contain recognizable components of the present are feasible future trajectories
- slow turnover of physical assets
- people embrace the familiar, cling to it under stress