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Tourism: Applying Rebound Theories and Mechanisms to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation

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Little attention has been given to the rebound effects within climate change mitigation and adaptation literature. Still, a growing attention has been given to the need of integrating adaptation and mitigation policies in order to avoid negative feedback mechanisms to take place between the two. In this article, we investigate the potential of applying theories of rebound effects on the climate change mitigation and adaptation discourse. In doing so, we have developed a model for identifying inter- and intra rebound effects taking place within and between the two policy domains of climate change, and given examples of such effects from the case of tourism.

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  1. Western Norway Research Institute, Sogndal, Norway

    Carlo Aall & Kyrre Groven

  2. Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

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Aall, C., Michael Hall, C., Groven, K. (2016). Tourism: Applying Rebound Theories and Mechanisms to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. In: Santarius, T., Walnum, H., Aall, C. (eds) Rethinking Climate and Energy Policies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38807-6_12

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