Towards the Sustainable University.

noAll universities have the capacity to embrace, embed or ignore sustainable development. Looking across the sector and reflecting on the past seven years and my own institutional experiences, the key finding is that change for campus and curriculum-based sustainability is clearly possible but unpredictable. For many years my own institution (University of Bradford) struggled to make progress in a number of key aspects of `campus greening¿ including recycling, green build, energy management, green travel, fair trade etc. It employed its first environmental manager as recently as 2003. Up until 2007, education for sustainable development (ESD) was largely found in one small academic department. Now, as this paper describes, it is a central feature of the learning and teaching strategy for the university and an overall institutional objective

Exploring youth awareness, intention and opinion on green travel: The case of Malaysia

Green travel is a construct that has drawn a lot of attention among researchers.The literature acknowledges the importance of green travel and its role in helping to protect the environment by encouraging practices such as travelling light and sticking to the path to avoid trampling.This paper presents findings from an empirical study on youth and their tendencies to take ‘green’ actions during travel.The study was conducted in Malaysia’s northern region, September–December 2015.The analysis of quantitative data obtained from a random sample of 200 college students aged 19–30 from three universities shows no significant difference across socio demographic variables in relation to green travel engagement.Nonetheless, there is a link between youth awareness, attitude and opinion and their green travel tendencies. The paper concludes that this new insight could add to the existing knowledge on green travel and youth. Theoretical and managerial implications of the study’s findings are considered at the end of the paper

Ecotourism as a Conservation Strategy for Funders: A Background Briefing

An overview of ecotourism, a newly popular movement which many have touted as an excellent way to fund environmental causes and benefit the development of poor nations. However, many are also doubtful of its effectiveness; this report analyzes the positive and negative aspects of ecotourism with the aim of helping private foundations address ecotourism's challenges and finding ways of rendering "green travel" effective and beneficial for all. Includes a resource list and a chart of foundations engaged in ecotourism funding

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHLY TOURISTIC REGION OF ISTRIA

As the scale of tourism grows, the resource use threatens to become unsustainable. Withought environmental responsibility the levels of cheaper mass tourism will increase, forcing more “nature-based” tourism to move on to new destinations. This scenario is opposite to the “Croatian Tourism Development by 2010” strategy. With a favourable geographic position, almost at the heart of Europe, Istria has always represented a bridge connecting the Middle European continental area with the Mediterranean. This area is the most visited Croatian tourist region with 27% of all visitors and 35% of time spent in all of Croatia. The Croatian National Bank’s preliminary figures for 2007 show that international tourism generated 18.4% of Croatian GDP. For these reasons the Istrian tourism industry can not ignore environmental issues in its management and requires the informed participation of all relevant stakeholders (according to the Agenda 21 for tourism industry). Properly planned tourism development, combined with environmental protection, produces the concept of sustainable tourism. Environmentally sustainable form of tourism represents a step forward from "sea and sun" mass tourism developed at the coastal part of Istria. There are a myriad of definitions for Sustainable Tourism, including eco-tourism, green travel, environmentally and culturally responsible tourism, fair trade and ethical travel. Mentioned selective tourism forms are adopted as the concept of the present and future Istrian destination development.sustainability, Istria, tourism development

Sustainability Badges and Their Impact on Purchase Intention in the Context of Green Travel Choices

Dissertation presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Information Management, specialization in Marketing IntelligenceTravelling is subject to a constant change dictated by the different challenges and development over the centuries. Nowadays, travellers prefer to adopt a more sustainable approach to travelling, despite the difficulty in finding environmentally friendly options in the market. On the other side, holiday and accommodation providers have started to roll out solutions to fulfil consumers’ needs. The study analysed the impact of adding sustainability labels on accommodation provider listings (conventional vs. peer-to-peer ones) to assess their impact on purchase intention, business credibility and trust. Results demonstrated that the presence of sustainability labels didn’t trigger a more favourable purchase intention. Despite the outcome, the impact of relationship norms (communal vs. exchange) in the relation showed that exchange norms were proven to have a detrimental effect on buying. Finally, no mediation effects were found to be significant for trust and credibility. Those findings have important implications for shaping communication based on the type of relationship established between accommodation providers and the end consumers, other than underlining the importance of visual cues and their impact on customers and their decision-making process

Investigating Adoption Behavior of Owned and Shared Autonomous Vehicles: An Updated Technology Acceptance Model

Transportation systems will be likely transformed by the emergence of autonomous vehicles (AVs), either owned privately or used in a shared system (SAVs), which promise for safe, convenient, and efficient mobility, to name a few benefits to the society. The manifestation of (S)AV benefits, however, is still dubious due to the observed public reluctance, or at best neutrality, towards (S)AVs, especially SAVs. The public\u27s perception towards these innovations is still unclear, therefore, a gap remains in the analysis of individuals’ behavioral intention (BI) to use AVs and SAVs. To fill that gap, this study uses a behavioral psychology method. Specifically, an updated technology acceptance model (TAM) is proposed which includes the ad-hoc latent constructs (i.e., perceived usefulness, BI to use AVs, and BI to use SAVs) as well as new latent constructs explaining perceived concern about (S)AV safety, pro-drive attitude, green travel pattern, and shared-mobility experience. The proposed TAM is empirically estimated on dataset of the California Vehicle Survey collected by California Energy Commission in 2019. The study findings reveal the positive tendency of individuals who experience shared mobility services (e.g., Uber and Lyft) towards both AVs and SAVs. Also, those experiencing green travel (i.e., active travel modes) prefer SAVs over AVs. In addition, pro-drive persons enjoy driving themselves instead of being in control and have negative intentions towards both AVs and SAVs, especially SAVs. To capture heterogeneity of the individuals, the findings are further analyzed by connecting individuals’ tendencies to each latent construct to their socio-economic attributes. The insights provided by the present research study can be used in future policy decisions as well as studies on technological advances in automated vehicle design and development

A novel policy making proposition for EV charging infrastructure management at HEI's

This paper is based on real time EV charging infrastructure development that took place at Brunel University, which is located in west of London, UK. The aim of this paper is to establish the policy making process that has stages of an initial student-staff interest survey, records of the consultation process with EV owners, results of competitive benchmarking with other HEI's and the discussion on Type 2 Mode 3 charging stations which are 240V, 32A, 7kW, 50Hz compliant with IEC 62196 and ISO 14443 Mifare standards. The first time ever PAYG concept of POD Point Ltd is explained. Benefits of using PAYG concept for charging EV are mentioned. Various other factors that played major role were also considered as follows: deciding the tariff of the electricity used by the EV owners, charging cable compatibility with charging station, hours of operation, creation of new enforcement rules and recommendations to provide incentives that recognise and motivate EV community