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.
