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'A holiday is a holiday': practicing sustainability, home and away

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In this article, the authors argue that a holistic understanding of sustainable lifestyles is needed if effective behavioural change strategies for climate change are to be developed, revealing the complexities of contemporary environmental practices using data from a recent British Academy research project.
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This article is published in Journal of Transport Geography.The article was published on 2010-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 347 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sustainable tourism & Sustainability.

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Comfort, cleanliness and conveniencethe social organization ofnormality

TL;DR: Shove as discussed by the authors investigated the evolution of these changes, as well as the social meaning of the practices themselves, concluding that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces, and that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption.
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Positive and negative spillover of pro-environmental behavior: An integrative review and theoretical framework

TL;DR: This article provided a unifying theoretical framework and used the framework to review the existing research on pro-environmental behavior spillover, identifying different decision modes as competing mechanisms that drive adoption of initial environmental behaviors with different consequences for subsequent environmental behaviors, leading to positive, negative or no spillover.
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Climate change and the air travel decisions of UK tourists

TL;DR: This article explored tourists' awareness of the impacts of travel on climate change, examines the extent to which climate change features in holiday travel decisions and identifies some of the barriers to the adoption of less carbon-intensive tourism practices.
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Understanding the normalisation of recycling behaviour and its implications for other pro-environmental behaviours: A review of social norms and recycling

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine recycling behaviour in the context of its increasing normalisation in the UK and consider what lessons the evidence offers for using the normalisation of recycling behavior in influencing more people to recycle and to adopt other sustainable behaviours.
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Slow travel: issues for tourism and climate change

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyse the evolution of slow travel, examine key features and interpretations, and develop a slow travel framework as an alternative way of conceptualizing holidays in the future.
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Barriers perceived to engaging with climate change among the UK public and their policy implications

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the barriers that members of the UK public perceive to engaging with climate change and argue that targeted and tailored information provision should be supported by wider structural change to enable citizens and communities to reduce carbon dependency.

Comfort, cleanliness and conveniencethe social organization ofnormality

TL;DR: Shove as discussed by the authors investigated the evolution of these changes, as well as the social meaning of the practices themselves, concluding that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces, and that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption.
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Transport and climate change: a review

TL;DR: In this article, an assessment of new technologies including alternative transport fuels to break the dependence on petroleum is presented, although it appears that technological innovation is unlikely to be the sole answer to the climate change problem.
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Value Orientations to Explain Beliefs Related to Environmental Significant Behavior How to Measure Egoistic, Altruistic, and Biospheric Value Orientations

TL;DR: In this paper, three studies were reported aimed to examine whether an egoistic, altruistic, and biospheric value orientation can indeed be distinguished empirically by using an adapted value instrument.
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'Complacent Car Addicts' or 'Aspiring Environmentalists'? Identifying travel behaviour segments using attitude theory

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the theory of planned behaviour to segment a population of day trip travellers into potential mode switchers using cluster analysis, and extracted six distinct psychographic groups with varying degrees of mode switching potential.
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Q1. What are the contributions in this paper?

The work in this paper explores the growing role of individual citizens in debates and potential solutions for global environmental challenges, of which climate change is now the most pressing. 

This further develops the work of social psychologists such as De Young ( 2000 ), Thogersen ( 1999 ) and Thogersen and Olander ( 2003 ) who have argued that the notion of ‘ spill-over ’ or catalyst behaviours ( DEFRA, 2008 ) is important to document and track. The evidence in this paper suggests that spill-over is a complex, lifestyle-specific process and that studying leisure and tourism contexts is particularly important for tracking behavioural change. Second, the research provides further evidence that tourism practices based on lowcost air travel have become embedded into lifestyle aspirations and this will be a hard habit to break ( Becken, 2007 ). Third, the research suggested that for some individuals, being environmentally conscious at home could be used to justify, or ‘ trade-off ’, their lack of commitments whilst on holiday. 

The research will also feed into a current study on promoting sustainable travel, which is exploring attitudes towards travel in a range of contexts. 

The evidence in this paper suggests that spill-over is a complex, lifestyle-specific process and that studyingleisure and tourism contexts is particularly important for tracking behavioural change. 

Foreach group, a discussion guide explored home-based environmental activities, attitudes towards sustainable holidays and low cost air travel. 

This survey was primarily designed to recruit participants to upcoming focus group discussions and so a limited sample size was selected based on a non-probabilistic method of selection. 

this group also stated that whilst they would use off-setting schemes and would support fair and ‘ring fenced’ taxes, they would also be willing to pay these, rather than reducing their flights.