Buchs, M (2017) The role of values for voluntary reductions of holiday air travel. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 25 (2). pp. 234-250. ISSN 0966-9582
Abstract
Recent research has shown that holiday air travel constitutes a typical value-action gap as many people continue to fly despite their concerns about climate change. However, some people do voluntarily reduce their holiday flights. Little is known so far about the role that values play in this decision. This paper examines this question based on semi-structured interviews with participants in local climate change and energy-saving projects. It finds that people who voluntarily reduce their holiday air travel are more ready than those who continue to fly to accept that their behaviour makes a contribution to climate change; that they feel a moral imperative to act regardless of its effectiveness in mitigating climate change; and that they distance themselves from socially dominant norms related to holiday air travel. This paper argues that these characteristics are connected to values of self-transcendence and self-direction, and that in this way values remain important for understanding and supporting low carbon behaviour.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Air travel; Behavioural studies; Climate Change; Sustainable Tourism; Tourist Motivation; Values |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 12 Oct 2016 12:30 |
Last Modified: | 19 Oct 2017 08:15 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2016.1195838 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/09669582.2016.1195838 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:105840 |