Vegter, Daan (2020) Mixed Climate Change Experiences and Travel Behaviour: About Diversity, Ambivalence, and Complexity. Master thesis.
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Abstract
The anthropogenic nature of climate change is widely acknowledged. In particular, travel behaviour plays a prominent role in contributing to climate change due to an increasing emission of greenhouse gases. This study aims to obtain an in-depth understanding of how personal climate change experiences relate to travel behaviour. In doing so, various elements of the theory of planned behaviour have been examined in a qualitative way through eleven semi-structured interviews. The outcomes of this study show that climate change experiences are diverse, ambivalent and imbued with different emotions. Climate concerned participants express a strong intention to consider climate change in their travel behaviour but a gap often remains between intentions and actual behaviour. Furthermore, the evidence demonstrates that travel behaviour is highly complex comprising multiple factors such as climate change, costs, travel time, comfort, distance, and ease, influenced by changing circumstances such as size of travel group, travel purpose, and length of stay at arrival destination. Finally, applying conjoint analyses qualitatively appears to be fruitful in eliciting rich in-depth understandings of travel behaviour intentions compared to more unstructured interviewing methods.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Spatial Sciences (Research) |
| Supervisor: | Horlings, L.G. |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Jul 2020 13:08 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jul 2020 13:08 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3266 |
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