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It’s not easy being green: lower-carbon travel and the future of Geography fieldtrips

Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo, Aled Singleton Orcid Logo

Geography Directions

Swansea University Authors: Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo, Aled Singleton Orcid Logo

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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...

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Published in: Geography Directions
Published: Royal Geographical Society with IBG 2023
Online Access: https://blog.geographydirections.com/2023/04/11/its-not-easy-being-green-lower-carbon-travel-and-the-future-of-geography-fieldtrips/
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