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

Aled Singleton Orcid Logo, Angharad Closs Stephens Orcid Logo

Geography Directions

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

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DOI (Published version): 10.55203/kemp8612

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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: http://dx.doi.org/10.55203/kemp8612
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