ABSTRACT
This paper presents the rationale and findings of an international survey that has been devised to provide evidence of different persons’ attitudes to some key questions of sustainability. In fact, it can be argued that the visualization of the passing of time (in a line or circle, going necessarily forward or possibly backwards), the level of anthropocentrism and faith in progress all imply spatial macro-paradigms. Thus they underpin all the descriptive and prescriptive representations of a given culture, and concern both the traditional and the latest interests of geography. The same can be said about other broad taxonomic and teleological coordinates that have also been addressed, and that will be discussed below.
