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It’s not easy being green: lower-carbon travel and the future of Geography fieldtrips
Angharad Closs Stephens 
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Aled Singleton
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Aled Singleton
Geography Directions
Swansea University Authors:
Angharad Closs Stephens , Aled Singleton
Abstract
Swansea is one of many UK Geography Departments that have experimented with lower-carbon travel, following the return, after the Covid-19 pandemic, of undergraduate fieldtrips to destinations outside the UK. In late March 2023, twenty students and three staff from Swansea University Geography set of...
| Published in: | Geography Directions |
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| Published: |
Royal Geographical Society with IBG
2023
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| Online Access: |
https://blog.geographydirections.com/2023/04/11/its-not-easy-being-green-lower-carbon-travel-and-the-future-of-geography-fieldtrips/ |
| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa63258 |
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| Abstract: |
Swansea is one of many UK Geography Departments that have experimented with lower-carbon travel, following the return, after the Covid-19 pandemic, of undergraduate fieldtrips to destinations outside the UK. In late March 2023, twenty students and three staff from Swansea University Geography set off on the department’s first lower-carbon organised fieldtrip to the city of Berlin. Going by land reduced the transport element of our carbon emissions by 73%. Here we explore some of the opportunities and the challenges that came with travelling 3,000km by coach. |
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| Keywords: |
Low-carbon travel. Geography fieldtrips. Teaching. |
| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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None |