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The limited influence of climate norms on leisure air travel

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This paper adds to our understanding of how people's climate change concern and norms influence their leisure air travel. It does so by examining the roles of Norwegians' beliefs about climate change and emissions from air travel, their felt responsibility to limit emissions (personal norm), and expectations and behaviors of friends and family (social norms) in such travel. A representative sample of Norwegians was surveyed in 2019 and 2020 (N = 2842), based on a framework combining institutional and social-psychological perspectives. Structural equation modeling of the data reveals that leisure air travel is habituated and part of a lifestyle, supported by social norms, self-enhancement values and urban residency. Personal norms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from flying are beginning to emerge in Norway, but their effect on leisure air travel is small and only indirect. Our findings suggest the need for interventions to complement and potentially amplify the emerging moralization process and support an evolution of new habits and travel lifestyle to limit the emissions from leisure air travel substantially. The disruption of travel habits by the COVID-19 pandemic might ease such a process.

Leisure travel by airsocial normsinstitutionsclimate concernpersonal normNorway

Marianne Aasen、John Thogersen、Arild Vatn、Riley E. Dunlap、Dana R. Fisher、Ottar Hellevik、Paul C. Stern

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CICERO Centre for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway

Department of Management, Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

CICERO Centre for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway||Department of Environment and Development Studies, Faculty of Land and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, As, Norway

Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA

Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Social and Environmental Research Institute, Northampton, MA, USA

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2023

10.1080/09669582.2022.2097687

Journal of sustainable tourism

Journal of sustainable tourism

SSCI
ISSN：0966-9582
年,卷(期)：2023.31(10/12)
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