Staff Profile

Adjunct Associate Professor

Susanne Becken

Vordiplom and Hauptdiplom Geo-ecology (Karlsruhe University) PhD Resource Management and Tourism (Lincoln University)

Susanne Becken

Contact Details

Faculty of Environment, Society and Design

Location F608
Phone 64 3 325 3838
Extension 8296
Email Susanne.Becken@lincoln.ac.nz
 

Academic and Professional Background

  • Director of LEaP and Theme Leader for Climate Change, Peak Oil & Society
  • Programme Leader of "Tourism & Oil" and "Preparing the Tourism Sector for Climate Change", both funded by the Foundation of Research Sciene and Technology.
  • Delegate of the UNWTO delegation at the UNFCCC Climate Change Summit in Bali, 3-14 December, 2007. Expert speaker at the UNWTO side event and the Indonesian Seminar on Climate Change and Tourism
  • Worked as a consultant for the United Nations World Tourism Organisation in Fiji, the South Pacific Tourism Organisation in Samoa and Tonga and the German GTZ in Tunisia
  • Member of the Expert Team commissioned to prepare the Technical Background Report for the 2nd Climate Change Summit organised by the UNWTO in Davos, 1-3 October, 2007
  • Contributing author to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
  • Invited representative on the World Meteorological Organisation’s Expert Team "Climate & Tourism"
  • Seconded to the Ministry of Tourism (2005-2008) to manage the Tourism Flows Model, a GIS supported model of tourist travel in New Zealand
  • Founding member of the eCLAT Committee (experts on climate change and tourism)
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism, International Tourism Review, Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events  and Resource Editor for Annals of Tourism Research
  • Member of the International Tourism Partnership Advisory Panel (United Kingdom)
  • Panellist in the 2010 New Zealand Tourism Awards (Tourist Attractions & Experience Category)
 

Current Research and Publications / Selected Publications

  • Tourism and oil: identifying high-yielding adaption measures to increasing oil prices
  • Tourism and climate change: mitigation and adaptation and policy development as part of sustainable tourism development
  • Yield associated with tourism, in particular different types of tourists. Yield can be measured on several dimensions, namely financial, economic and sustainable Transport behaviour of tourists in New Zealand


Becken, S. (2011). A Critical Review of Tourism and Oil. Annals of Tourism Research. Online.

Schiff, A. & Becken, S. (2011). Demand Elasticities for Tourism in New Zealand. Tourism Management,32(3), 564-575.

Becken, S. & Clapcott, R. (2011). Developing public policy for climate change in the tourism sector. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events. Online.

Becken, S. & Schiff, A. (2011). Distance Models for New Zealand International Tourists and the Role of Transport Prices. Journal of Travel Research. Online.

Becken, S. (2010). Tourism and Environment. Book Series: Economics and Management of Tourism (edited by L. Dwyer and P. Forsyth). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

Scott, D. & Becken, S. (2010). Adapting to Climate Change and Climate Policy: Progress, Problems and Potentials. In Scott, D. & Becken, S. (2010). Adapting to Climate Change and Climate Policy. Special Issue Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 18(3), 283 – 295. 

Becken, S. (2010). The implications of Peak Oil for Travel and Tourism. 4th Responsible Tourism Conference “Living Landscapes”, 10-12 October, Muscat, Oman. Available at http://www.rtd4.om/rtd4/RTD4/3rd/Theme3/SusanneBecken.pdf

Becken, S. (2010). Tourism, Oil and the Global Economy. Full paper presented at 60th AIEST Annual Conference, Potchefstroom, South Africa, 12-16 September, 2010. Best Paper Award.

Becken, S., Wilson, J., Reisinger, A. & Hendrikx, J. (2010). Climate and weather impacts on tourism in New Zealand. Poster presented at Climate Adaptation Futures – Preparing for the unavoidable impacts of climate change, 29 June to 1 July, 2010, Gold Coast, Australia.

Moreno, A. & Becken, S. (2009). A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Methodology for Coastal Tourism. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 17(4), 473-488.

Becken, S. (2009). Global Challenges for Tourism and Transport:  How will Climate Change and Energy affect the Future of Tourist Travel? Chapter 8. In: Page, S. Transport and Tourism – Global Perspectives. Third edition. Essex: Pearson Education Limited.

Becken, S. (2008). Tourism and Climate Change – Beyond the Hype. Research Probe. Tourism Recreation Research, 33(2).

Becken, S. (2008). Indicators for managing tourism in the face of peak oil. Tourism Management 29, 695-705.

Becken, S. (2007). Tourists' Perception of International Air Travel's Impact on the Global Climate and Potential Climate Change Policies. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 15(4), 351-368.

Becken, S, Hay J.E. (2007) Tourism and Climate Change, Risks and Opportunities.

Becken, S., Frampton, C. & Simmons, D. (2001). Energy consumption patterns in the accommodation sector – the New Zealand case. Ecological Economics, 39 (3), 371-386.

Becken, S. (2002). Analysing international tourist flows to estimate energy use associated with air travel. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 10 (2), 114-131.

Becken, S. & Simmons, D. (2002). Understanding energy consumption patterns of tourist attractions and activities in New Zealand. Tourism Management 23 (4), 343-354.

Becken, S., Simmons, D. & Frampton, C. (2003). Energy use associated with different travel choices. Tourism Management 24(3), 267-278.

Becken, S., Simmons, D. & Frampton, C. (2003). Segmenting tourists by their travel pattern for insights into achieving energy efficiency. Journal of Travel Research 42(10), 48-56.

Becken, S. (2004). Leisure, energy costs of. Encyclopaedia of Energy, Volume 3 (pp. 623-634). Academia Press.

Becken, S. & Gnoth, J. (2004). Tourist consumption systems among overseas visitors: Reporting on American, German, and Australian visitors to New Zealand. Tourism Management 25, 375-385.

Becken, S. (2004). How tourists and tourism experts perceive climate change and forest carbon sinks. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 12(4), 332-345.

Becken, S. (2004). Potential for energy-efficient tourist itineraries – an investigation into Australian Wholesalers. Tourism Research International 8, 33-43.

Becken, S. (2005). Towards sustainable tourism transport – an analysis of coach tourism in New Zealand. Tourism Geographies 7(1), 1-20.

Becken, S. (2005). Harmonizing climate change adaptation and mitigation. The case of tourist resorts in Fiji. Global Environmental Change – Part A 15(4) 381-393

Becken, S. & Simmons, D. (2005). Tourism, fossil fuel consumption and the impact on the global climate. In Hall, M. & Higham, J. (eds.) Tourism, Recreation and Climate Change: International Perspectives. Chapter 14. Clevedon: Channel View Publications.

Becken, S. & Patterson, M. (2006). Measuring national greenhouse gas emissions from tourism as an important component towards sustainable tourism development. Accepted. Special Issue Journal of Sustainable Tourism: Climate Change and Tourism (edited by D. Viner), 14 (4), 323-338.

Peeters, P., Gössling, S. & Becken, S. (2006). Innovation towards tourism sustainability: climate change and aviation. Special Issue International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development (edited by M. Hall), 1 (3), pp. 184 – 200.

Simmons, D. & Becken, S. (2004). The cost of getting there – Impacts of travel to ecotourism destinations. In Buckley, R. (edt). Environmental Impacts of Ecotourism. Ecotourism Series No. 2 (pp. 15-23). Wallingford: CAB International.

Becken, S. & Sampson, K. (2007). Māori eco-cultural tourism (107-138). In Buultjens, J. & D. Fuller (eds.) Case studies in Indigenous Tourism. Lismore: Southern Cross University Press.

Becken, S. & Schellhorn, M. (2007). Ecotourism, energy use and the global climate – widening the local perspective. In J. Higham (edt) Critical Issues in Ecotourism – paradoxes, problems and pathways for the future. Elsevier.

 

Supervision

Susanne is currently supervising the following students:

  • Hopkins, Debbie (Otago University): A Participatory Integrated Assessment of the vulnerability and adaptability of New Zealand’s ski field’s to climatic changes.
  • Kanyoke, E. (PhD) A carbon footprint assessment of New Zealand’s road transport sector: the case of indirect tourism transport.
  • Khanal, Bhoj Raj: Economic Impacts Analysis of Mekong Brand Tourism along the East West Economic Corridor of the Mekong Region: A Case of Lao PDR
  • Mahon, R. (PhD) Towards a climate change adaptation framework for Caribbean coastal and marine tourism: a temporal analogue case study of managing climate variability, change and extreme events in Tobago.   

The complete list of supervisions for Faculty of Environment, Society and Design.

 

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