eprintid: 3266
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2020-07-29 13:08:52
lastmod: 2020-07-29 13:08:52
status_changed: 2020-07-29 13:08:52
type: thesis
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sword_depositor: 1
creators_name: Vegter, Daan
creators_id: S2640783
creators_email: dvegter@live.nl
title: Mixed Climate Change Experiences and Travel Behaviour: About Diversity, Ambivalence, and Complexity
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
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.
date: 2020
pages: 32
thesis_type: master
degree_programme: RS
tutors_name: Horlings, L.G.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Planologie
tutors_email: L.G.Horlings@rug.nl
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keywords_local: Climate change experiences
keywords_local: Travel Behaviour
keywords_local: Climate Change
keywords_local: Conjoint Analysis
keywords_local: Qualitative Research
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2020-07-27
citation:   Vegter, Daan  (2020) Mixed Climate Change Experiences and Travel Behaviour: About Diversity, Ambivalence, and Complexity.  Master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3266/1/Master%20Thesis%20Daan%20Vegter%202.0.pdf