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Susanne Becken is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and has a significant body of research focused on tourism, environmental science, and social sciences. Their work spans multiple fields, including sociology and political science, environmental policy, and global planetary change, reflecting an interdisciplinary approach to the study of tourism and sustainability.

Becken has contributed extensively to topics such as diverse aspects of tourism research, environmental education and sustainability, climate change communication and perception, tourism development, sustainability governance, digital marketing, and coral and marine ecosystems studies.

Frequent publication venues for Becken include:

  • Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • Annals of Tourism Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights
  • Tourism Geographies

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Becken are:

  • "Tourism and climate change: evaluating the extent of policy integration" (2020) in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • "Anchoring "tourism value" within a regenerative tourism paradigm - a government perspective" (2021) in Journal of Sustainable Tourism
  • "Tourism governance and enabling drivers for intensifying climate action" (2022) in Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Becken has also collaborated frequently with other researchers. Some of their main co-authors include:

  • Bela Stantić
  • Johanna Loehr
  • Jinyan Chen
  • Brendan Mackey
  • Alexandra Coghlan

Their interdisciplinary research connects social sciences with environmental science through analysis and evaluation of tourism governance, climate change integration in tourism policy, and sustainability initiatives.

Best Publications

  • Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

    Tarekegn Abeku;Pamela Abuodha;Francis Adesina;Neil Adger

  • Climate Change and Tourism: Responding to Global Challenges.

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

  • Tourism and Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

    Susanne Becken;John E. Hay

  • Sentiment Analysis in Tourism: Capitalizing on Big Data:

    Ali Reza Alaei;Susanne Becken;Bela Stantic

  • Tourists' Perception of International Air Travel's Impact on the Global Climate and Potential Climate Change Policies

    Susanne Becken

  • Energy use associated with different travel choices

    Susanne Becken;David G Simmons;Chris Frampton

  • Measuring National Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Tourism as a Key Step Towards Achieving Sustainable Tourism

    Susanne Becken;Murray Patterson

  • Understanding energy consumption patterns of tourist attractions and activities in New Zealand

    Susanne Becken;David G Simmons

  • The effects of natural disasters on international tourism: A global analysis

    Jaume Rosselló;Jaume Rosselló;Susanne Becken;Susanne Becken;Maria Santana-Gallego

  • Energy consumption patterns in the accommodation sector—the New Zealand case ☆

    Susanne Becken;Chris Frampton;David Simmons

  • Harmonising climate change adaptation and mitigation: the case of tourist resorts in Fiji.

    Susanne Becken

  • A climate change vulnerability assessment methodology for coastal tourism

    Alvaro Moreno;Susanne Becken

  • Analysing international tourist flows to estimate energy use associated with air travel

    Susanne Becken

  • Adapting to climate change and climate policy: progress, problems and potentials

    Daniel Scott;Susanne Becken

  • DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING RESILIENCE OF TOURISM SUB-SYSTEMS TO CLIMATIC FACTORS

    Susanne Becken

  • How tourists and tourism experts perceive climate change and carbon-offsetting schemes.

    Susanne Becken

  • Linking tourism into emergency management structures to enhance disaster risk reduction.

    Susanne Becken;Susanne Becken;Kennet F.D. Hughey

  • A review of tourism and climate change as an evolving knowledge domain

    Susanne Becken

  • The impacts of weather on tourist travel

    Susanne Becken;Jude Wilson

  • Urban air pollution in China: destination image and risk perceptions

    Susanne Becken;Xin Jin;Chen Zhang;Jun Gao

  • The tourism disaster vulnerability framework: an application to tourism in small island destinations

    Susanne Becken;Roché Mahon;Hamish G. Rennie;Aishath Shakeela

  • Tourism and climate change

    Susanne Becken

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel Scott
Daniel Scott University of Waterloo
Stefan Gössling
Stefan Gössling Linnaeus University
Sander van der Linden
Sander van der Linden University of Cambridge
James Higham
James Higham University of Otago
Pamela Wicker
Pamela Wicker Bielefeld University
David Bruce Weaver
David Bruce Weaver Queensland University of Technology
Scott A. Cohen
Scott A. Cohen University of Surrey
David A. Fennell
David A. Fennell Brock University
Stewart Barr
Stewart Barr University of Exeter
Geoffrey Wall
Geoffrey Wall University of Waterloo

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