Psychological and behavioural approaches to understanding and governing sustainable mobility

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 949-967

  Higham, James ^a   Cohen, Scott A ^b   Peeters, Paul ^c   Gössling, Stefan ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c NHTV BREDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

behaviour; climate change; psychology; sustainable mobility; tourism; transportation

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; ECOTOURISM; MOBILITY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TOURIST BEHAVIOR; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84887991851     PISSN: 09669582     EISSN: 17477646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2013.828733     Document Type: Article

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