For longer time frames, Professor Coimbra's number crunching takes over.
Relief agencies also tend to work in longer time frames than corporate executives are used to.
Over longer time frames, for example from 1990 to 2012, average global surface temperatures have warmed as fast as climate scientists and their models expected.
Time is fundamental to all sustainability frames, with capitalism seen as myopic at a moment when key challenges demand much longer time frames.
Future progress will hinge on experimental evaluations of these linked frameworks and their subsequent refinement over longer time frames in an adaptive management context.
Generally, post-conventional worldviews can be described as the mental capacity to reframe problems with a deeper understanding of context, systems and consequences of actions over longer time frames.
However, these examples also show that emphasizing empowerment through participatory scenario-building requires longer time frames, access to the expertise necessary to organize such exercises, as well as mechanisms to motivate participation amongst marginalized groups.
Joeri Rogelj of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, also pointed out that the convention in UN climate negotiations was to refer to targets in terms of longer time frames of 20 or 30 years.
While numerous studies have documented short-term effects of prescribed burning on nutrient dynamics, few have evaluated the consequences of repeated fire on N availability and ecosystem productivity over longer time frames, such as a 3-year fire return interval.
Other habitat elements, such as large cypress trees which were reduced by logging and unaffected by thinning, require longer time frames to mature and therefore will be critical resources to maintain during future management activities in cypress forests.
For instantaneous latent heat flux (λE) estimates from thermal remote sensing data to be useful in the hydrologic sciences, they require integration over longer time frames (e.g., months to years).
