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

Aled Singleton, Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo

Geography Directions

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

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DOI (Published version): 10.55203/kemp8612

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...

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Published in: Geography Directions
Published: Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) 2023
Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.55203/kemp8612
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.
Keywords: Low-carbon travel. Geography fieldtrips. Teaching.
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: None