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Stefan Gössling

Stefan Gössling

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Environmental Sciences
Sweden
2026

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
93
Citations
37005
World Ranking
513
National Ranking
6

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Stefan Gössling is affiliated with Linnaeus University in Sweden and conducts research primarily within the social sciences and environmental science fields. Their academic focus spans several subfields including sociology and political science, transportation, economics and econometrics, global and planetary change, and automotive engineering.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics surrounding tourism, transport, and environmental impacts, with key research areas addressing diverse aspects of tourism, urban transport and accessibility, advanced aircraft design and technologies, climate change policy and economics, energy, environment and transportation policies, aviation industry analysis and trends, as well as vehicle emissions and performance.

Stefan Gössling's notable recent papers include:

  • Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19 (2020) published in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Pandemics, transformations and tourism: be careful what you wish for (2020) published in Tourism Geographies
  • The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change (2020) published in Global Environmental Change
  • Integrating e-scooters in urban transportation: Problems, policies, and the prospect of system change (2020) published in Transportation Research Part D Transport and Environment
  • Why cities need to take road space from cars - and how this could be done (2020) published in Journal of Urban Design

The scientist frequently publishes in journals such as:

  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • Current Issues in Tourism
  • Tourism Geographies
  • Tourism Management

Among frequent collaborators, Stefan Gössling has co-authored multiple works with:

  • Andreas Humpe
  • Daniel Scott
  • Ya-Yen Sun
  • James Higham
  • Christoph Neger

Overall, Stefan Gössling's research integrates interdisciplinary themes, particularly linking environmental concerns with tourism and transportation systems, addressing contemporary challenges such as climate change, urban mobility, and sustainable tourism development.

Best Publications

  • Global environmental consequences of tourism

    Stefan Gössling

  • Pandemics, transformations and tourism: be careful what you wish for

    C. Michael Hall;Daniel Scott;Stefan Gössling

  • Tourism and water use: supply, demand, and security. An international review.

    S. Gössling;S. Gössling;P.M. Peeters;C.M. Hall;J.P. Ceron

  • Ecological footprint analysis as a tool to assess tourism sustainability

    Stefan Gössling;Carina Borgström Hansson;Oliver Hörstmeier;Stefan Saggel

  • Ecotourism - a means to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem functions?

    Stefan Gössling

  • CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR AND DEMAND RESPONSE OF TOURISTS TO CLIMATE CHANGE

    Stefan Gössling;Daniel Scott;C. Michael Hall;Jean-Paul Ceron

  • Climate Change and Tourism: Responding to Global Challenges.

    D Scott;B Amelung;S Becken;J.-P Ceron

  • The eco-efficiency of tourism.

    Stefan Gössling;Paul Peeters;Jean Paul Ceron;Ghislain Dubois

  • Assessing tourism's global environmental impact 1900–2050

    Stefan Gössling;Paul Peeters

  • Can tourism deliver its “aspirational” greenhouse gas emission reduction targets?

    Daniel Scott;Paul Peeters;Stefan Gössling

  • International tourism and climate change

    Daniel Scott;Stefan Gössling;C. Michael Hall;C. Michael Hall

  • The global scale, distribution and growth of aviation: Implications for climate change

    Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling;Andreas Humpe

  • Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in the Tourism Sector: Frameworks, Tools and Practice

    M.C Simpson;Stefan Gössling;D Scott;C.M Hall

  • Global tourism vulnerability to climate change

    Daniel Scott;C. Michael Hall;C. Michael Hall;C. Michael Hall;Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling

  • Integrating e-scooters in urban transportation: Problems, policies, and the prospect of system change

    Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling;Stefan Gössling

  • Food management in tourism: Reducing tourism's carbon 'foodprint'

    Stefan Gössling;Brian Garrod;Carlo Aall;John Hille

  • ‘It Does Not Harm the Environment!’ An Analysis of Industry Discourses on Tourism, Air Travel and the Environment

    Stefan Gössling;Paul Peeters

  • Sustainable tourism development in developing countries: some aspects of energy-use

    Stefan Gössling

  • Tourism and Global Environmental Change

    Stefan Gössling;Michael C. Hall

  • Voluntary carbon offsetting schemes for aviation: efficiency, credibility and sustainable tourism.

    Stefan Gössling;John Broderick;Paul Upham;Jean-Paul Ceron

  • The consequences of tourism for sustainable water use on a tropical island: Zanzibar, Tanzania.

    Stefan Gössling

  • Uncertainties in predicting tourist flows under scenarios of climate change

    Stefan Gössling;C. Michael Hall

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott University of Waterloo
C. Michael Hall
C. Michael Hall Massey University
Scott A. Cohen
Scott A. Cohen University of Surrey
James Higham
James Higham University of Otago
David Bruce Weaver
David Bruce Weaver Queensland University of Technology
Brian Garrod
Brian Garrod Swansea University
Paul Upham
Paul Upham University of Groningen
Susanne Becken
Susanne Becken Griffith University
Sander van der Linden
Sander van der Linden University of Cambridge
Ralf Buckley
Ralf Buckley Griffith University

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