Making a sustainable tourist

该奖学金将发展并验证一种新的理论，该理论解释、预测并引出了旅游业等以娱乐为中心的环境中的亲环境行为。它挑战了关于人类行为普遍驱动因素的传统理论假设，主张在享乐背景下，需要增加快乐或改变基础设施来促进亲环境行动，这一点意义重大。结果和收益将是有效的、基于证据的社会干预措施，减少旅游业和其他以娱乐为中心的行业的巨大环境负担。这种干预措施是迫切需要的，以管理对澳大利亚经济至关重要的部门的非凡增长所产生的影响。

This Fellowship will develop and validate a new theory that explains, predicts, and elicits pro-environmental conduct in pleasure-focused settings like tourism. It is significant in challenging the assumption of conventional theories about universal drivers of human behaviour, asserting instead that increased pleasure or changed infrastructure are needed to boost pro-environmental actions in hedonic contexts. The outcome and benefits will be in effective, evidenced-based social interventions that reduce the huge environmental burden of tourism and other pleasure-focused industries. Such interventions are urgently needed to manage the impacts arising from the extraordinary growth in sectors critical to the Australian economy.