Conserving biodiversity in the face of rapid climate change requires a shift in priorities

MA Schlaepfer, JJ Lawler - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The field of conservation aims to protect biodiversity—the diversity of life on earth in all its
forms. Traditional conservation objectives and measures have already been expanded and …

The environmental footprint of academic and student mobility in a large research-oriented university

J Arsenault, J Talbot, L Boustani… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Academic mobility for field work, research dissemination and global outreach is increasingly
recognized as an important contributor to the overall environmental footprint of research …

Moving academic conferences online: Aids and barriers to delegate participation

CL Raby, JR Madden - Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In‐person academic conferences are important to disseminate research and provide
networking opportunities. Whether academics attend in‐person conferences is based on the …

[HTML][HTML] The fear of not flying: Achieving sustainable academic plane travel in higher education based on insights from South Australia

M Nursey-Bray, R Palmer, B Meyer-Mclean, T Wanner… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Universities are both disseminators and producers of the climate knowledge needed to
institute the social and cultural change required for climate adaptation and mitigation to …

An open-source tool to assess the carbon footprint of research

J Mariette, O Blanchard, O Berné… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The scrutiny over the carbon footprint of research and higher education has increased
rapidly in the last few years. This has resulted in a series of publications providing various …

Carbon footprint of science: More than flying

WMJ Achten, J Almeida, B Muys - Ecological indicators, 2013 - Elsevier
Previous efforts to evaluate the climate change impact of researchers have focused mainly
on transport related impact of conference attendance, and infrastructure. Because these …

[HTML][HTML] “An island on the edge of Europe”: A study on academic air travel in Finland through a combined model of practice

V Ahonen, M Rask - Environmental Science & Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
Although evidence about the environmental harm of air travel is growing, the goal of
internationalization remains firmly built into academia. The aim of this article is to study this …

Cognitive dissonance in sustainability scientists regarding air travel for academic purposes: a qualitative study

I Schrems, P Upham - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study is to investigate in depth the perspectives of sustainability
scientists regarding academic air travel, with an emphasis on cognitive dissonance and …

Meet & fly: Sustainable transport academics and the elephant in the room

F Caset, K Boussauw, T Storme - Journal of transport geography, 2018 - Elsevier
This viewpoint addresses the discrepancy between our 'normal'academic travel behaviour
(flying to meetings all over the planet) and today's hot-topic research agendas in transport …