
Overview
Background
Csilla Demeter is a social scientist in the Business School, whose research investigates how corporations respond to climate change. Her research is focused on understanding the debate on the challenges generated by the Energy transition in Australia, as the sector adapts to climate change. She also explores public perceptions toward Reef restoration interventions.
Csilla contributed to sustainable tourism research by investigating the suitability of Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis as a tool that can be adopted by small and medium enterprises to calculate their carbon emissions without compromising on accuracy, by quantifying the effectiveness of interventions designed to change environmentally significant behaviour, comparing intervention effectiveness across a wide range of intervention mechanisms, and by proposing a novel approach to trigger behavioural change in enjoyment focused contexts.
Availability
- Dr Csilla Demeter is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of International Relations, King Sigismund College
- Masters (Research) of International Business and Management, University of West Hungary
- Masters (Research) of Tourism and Hospitality Mangement, The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy of Impacts of Tourism, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Climate Change
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Environmental Management
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The Politics of Climate Change
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Sustainable Tourism
Works
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2025
Journal Article
Public support for novel interventions to protect, restore, and accelerate adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef
Bartelet, Henry A., Lockie, Stewart, Ritchie, Brent W., Demeter, Csilla, Sie, Lintje and Taylor, Bruce (2025). Public support for novel interventions to protect, restore, and accelerate adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef. Ocean & Coastal Management, 260 107489, 107489. doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2024.107489
2024
Journal Article
Australians support multi-pronged action to build ecosystem resilience in the Great Barrier Reef
Lockie, Stewart, Bartelet, Henry A., Ritchie, Brent W., Demeter, Csilla, Taylor, Bruce and Sie, Lintje (2024). Australians support multi-pronged action to build ecosystem resilience in the Great Barrier Reef. Biological Conservation, 299 110789, 110789. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2024.110789
2024
Journal Article
Is the pursuit of pleasure on vacation a barrier to environmentally sustainable behaviour?
MacInnes, Sarah, Demeter, Csilla and Dolnicar, Sara (2024). Is the pursuit of pleasure on vacation a barrier to environmentally sustainable behaviour?. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2024.2413688
2024
Journal Article
An extended pre-testing protocol in the lead-up to field studies
Zinn, Anna K., Greene, Danyelle, Demeter, Csilla and Dolnicar, Sara (2024). An extended pre-testing protocol in the lead-up to field studies. Journal of Travel Research. doi: 10.1177/00472875241266617
2024
Journal Article
The comparative effectiveness of interventions aimed at making tourists behave in more environmentally sustainable ways: a meta-analysis
Greene, Danyelle, Demeter, Csilla and Dolnicar, Sara (2024). The comparative effectiveness of interventions aimed at making tourists behave in more environmentally sustainable ways: a meta-analysis. Journal of Travel Research, 63 (5), 1239-1255. doi: 10.1177/00472875231183701
2024
Journal Article
A typology of quantitative approaches to discovery
Dolnicar, Sara, Zinn, Anna Kristina and Demeter, Csilla (2024). A typology of quantitative approaches to discovery. Annals of Tourism Research, 104 103704, 103704. doi: 10.1016/j.annals.2023.103704
2023
Book Chapter
Triggering behaviour change in tourists to make their vacation more environmentally sustainable
Demeter, Csilla and Dolnicar, Sara (2023). Triggering behaviour change in tourists to make their vacation more environmentally sustainable. Handbook on tourism and behaviour change. (pp. 21-35) edited by Haywantee Ramkissoon. Northampton, MA USA: Edward Elgar Publishing. doi: 10.4337/9781800372498.00008
2023
Other Outputs
Towards sustainable tourism: assessing the effectiveness of interventions and measurement methods
Demeter, Csilla (2023). Towards sustainable tourism: assessing the effectiveness of interventions and measurement methods. PhD Thesis, School of Business, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/07b5887
2023
Journal Article
Why targeting attitudes often fails to elicit sustainable tourist behaviour
Dolnicar, Sara and Demeter, Csilla (2023). Why targeting attitudes often fails to elicit sustainable tourist behaviour. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 36 (3), 730-742. doi: 10.1108/IJCHM-07-2022-0828
2023
Journal Article
Progress in field experimentation for environmentally sustainable tourism – A knowledge map and research agenda
Demeter, Csilla, Fechner, David and Dolnicar, Sara (2023). Progress in field experimentation for environmentally sustainable tourism – A knowledge map and research agenda. Tourism Management, 94 104633, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.tourman.2022.104633
2023
Journal Article
Defining and operationalizing eight forms of eudaimonia and hedonia and assessing tourism-specific context-dependency
Demeter, Csilla, MacInnes, Sarah and Dolnicar, Sara (2023). Defining and operationalizing eight forms of eudaimonia and hedonia and assessing tourism-specific context-dependency. Journal of Travel Research, 62 (7), 1448-1459. doi: 10.1177/00472875221133042
2021
Journal Article
Understanding tourists’ attitudes toward interventions for the Great Barrier Reef: an extension of the norm activation model
Ritchie, Brent W., Prideaux, Bruce, Thompson, Michelle and Demeter, Csilla (2021). Understanding tourists’ attitudes toward interventions for the Great Barrier Reef: an extension of the norm activation model. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 30 (6), 1-20. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2021.1948048
2021
Journal Article
Assessing the carbon footprint of tourism businesses using environmentally extended input-output analysis
Demeter, Csilla, Lin, Pei-Chun, Sun, Ya-Yen and Dolnicar, Sara (2021). Assessing the carbon footprint of tourism businesses using environmentally extended input-output analysis. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 30 (1), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2021.1924181
2021
Journal Article
Identifying appropriate service recovery strategies in the event of a natural disaster
Demeter, Csilla, Walters, Gabrielle and Mair, Judith (2021). Identifying appropriate service recovery strategies in the event of a natural disaster. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 46, 405-413. doi: 10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.01.015
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