How to Influence Tourists Visiting Protected Areas to Make Choices that Make a Difference for Climate Change
Year: 2009
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Despite scientists attributing much of climate change to human behaviour, and that influencing human behaviour is clearly a key strategy for slowing climate change, surprisingly little research effort is being expended on how to foster appropriate human behaviour in the global endeavour to secure a sustainable future.This is evident in both protected area management and tourism management, which are fields that are rightly concerned with managing the impacts of climate change, but so far have put few resources toward using persuasive communication (as opposed to more restrictive direct management measures) to influence visitor behaviour.In particular, the use of research underpinned by theories of behaviour change and communication has been very limited (Ballantyne & Hughes, 2006;
Source: Griffith Research Online
Authors: Betty Weiler, Terence James Brown, Jim Curtis
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDGs: Climate action, Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W8730198