TY - BOOK ID - 100014308 TI - Academic Flying and the Means of Communication. AU - Bjørkdahl, Kristian. AU - Franco Duharte, Adrian Santiago. PY - 2022 SN - 9811649111 9811649103 PB - Springer Nature DB - UniCat KW - Human geography KW - Sociology KW - Education KW - Media studies KW - new mobilities paradigm KW - mobilities KW - climate change KW - air travel KW - carbon footprint KW - academic communication KW - academic conferences KW - academic institutions KW - university administrators KW - academic flying KW - sustainability KW - communication technology KW - COVID-19 KW - open access UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:100014308 AB - This open access book shines a light on how and why academic work became entwined with air travel, and what can be done to change academia’s flying habit. The starting point of the book is that flying is only one means of scholarly communication among many, and that the state of the planet now obliges us to shift to other means. How can the academic-as-globetrotter become a thing of the past? The chapters in this book respond to this call in three steps. It documents the consequences of academic flying, it investigates the issue of why academics fly, and it begins an effort to think through what can replace flying, and how. Finally, it confronts scholars and scientists, students, activists, research funders, university administrators, and others, with a call to translate this research into action. ER -