Environmental Volunteering: motivations, modes and outcomes

Measham, Thomas G.; Barnett, Guy

doi:10.1080/00049180802419237

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“…Some studies of environmental volunteers have built upon the motivations identified by Clary and Snyder (1999), for example Bruyere and Rappe (2007) and Jacobson et al (2012). Other studies have developed their own categories that can be matched onto the Clary and Snyder categories, for example, Measham and Barnett (2007), Bell et al (2008), Hobbs and White (2012), and Raddick et al (2013). These studies have helped make Clary and Snyder's categories more relevant to environmental volunteering and citizen science.…”

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“…Values motivations can be divided into: Helping other people, helping science (see Raddick et al 2013), and helping the environment (see Hobbs and White 2012). Bruyere and Rappe (2007), Measham and Barnett (2007), and Jacobson et al (2012) identified an additional values motivation for environmental volunteers, which is that people who use a site (e.g., for recreation) often want to work in or improve the site. The "understanding motivation" can be divided into "wanting to learn new things" and "wanting to share existing knowledge with others" (see Bell et al 2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, very little has been published in the academic literature about the factors that influence people to take part in citizen science projects and why participants continue their involvement, or not. This is a significant gap in our understanding because a) knowledge of what encourages participation is crucial for ensuring that opportunities are attractive to participants, and b) fulfilling people's motivations for participation can encourage prolonged engagement (Measham and Barnett 2007). Understanding people's motivations may also be useful for predicting the quality and quantity of participation (see Nov et al 2014).…”

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Recruiting and Retaining Participants in Citizen Science: What Can Be Learned from the Volunteering Literature?

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Pateman

2016

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New citizen science projects are emerging all the time as scientists, policy-makers, and non-governmental organisations see the value of conducting research in this way. Understanding what factors influence people to take part in citizen science projects and why participants continue their involvement are important questions for the field. Here, we bring together key theories from the volunteering literature with examples from the environmental volunteering and citizen science literature to describe the factors that influence people to start and continue participating in citizen science projects. Good project organisation is key, and project organisers need to consider potential participants' motivations; their personal attributes, circumstances and demographics; and how they will become aware of the opportunity. We discuss each of these factors with reference to both the academic and the grey (non-academic) literature, and based on this make general recommendations for those designing and running citizen science projects.

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Recruiting and Retaining Participants in Citizen Science: What Can Be Learned from the Volunteering Literature?

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2016

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“…For example, autonomy comes up in two ways: (1) Stewards can often be motivated to ensure the sustainability of resources so to maintain cultural or livelihood autonomy ) and (2) Stewardship programs that undermine the autonomy of resource users or land-owners may be opposed (Sorice et al 2013). Other research has shown that environmental volunteers are often motivated by wanting to belong to a social group (Measham and Barnett 2008;Asah and Blahna 2012) and local stewards can be motivated by their affiliation with a community or group, such as farmers, fishers, hunters, or Indigenous groups (Silva and Mosimane 2014). A study by Ryan et al (2003) shows that farmer's are motivated to demonstrate a level of competence in caring for a resource and Bramston et al (2011) show that participation in environmental stewardship networks in rural Australia is motivated by a sense of belonging, care for the environment, and personal learning.…”

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Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

Bennett¹,

Whitty²,

Finkbeiner³

et al. 2018

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There has been increasing attention to and investment in local environmental stewardship in conservation and environmental management policies and programs globally. Yet environmental stewardship has not received adequate conceptual attention. Establishing a clear definition and comprehensive analytical framework could strengthen our ability to understand the factors that lead to the success or failure of environmental stewardship in different contexts and how to most effectively support and enable local efforts. Here we propose such a definition and framework. First, we define local environmental stewardship as the actions taken by individuals, groups or networks of actors, with various motivations and levels of capacity, to protect, care for or responsibly use the environment in pursuit of environmental and/or social outcomes in diverse social–ecological contexts. Next, drawing from a review of the environmental stewardship, management and governance literatures, we unpack the elements of this definition to develop an analytical framework that can facilitate research on local environmental stewardship. Finally, we discuss potential interventions and leverage points for promoting or supporting local stewardship and future applications of the framework to guide descriptive, evaluative, prescriptive or systematic analysis of environmental stewardship. Further application of this framework in diverse environmental and social contexts is recommended to refine the elements and develop insights that will guide and improve the outcomes of environmental stewardship initiatives and investments. Ultimately, our aim is to raise the profile of environmental stewardship as a valuable and holistic concept for guiding productive and sustained relationships with the environment.

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“…Previous studies have analysed particular civil society organizations acting at local, national or even international level (Kieninger et al 2011;Stenseke 2009) or the benefits and motivations of conservation volunteers (Miles et al 1998;Bruyere & Rappe 2007;Bell et al 2008;Measham & Barnett 2008). A systematic overview and analysis of different civil society organizations volunteering for land care is not yet available (in this paper we use the term organization as synonym both for formally established civil society organizations and for rather informally structured citizen's initiatives).…”

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Volunteering for land care – A typology of civil society organizations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland as the basis for establishing new initiatives

Penker¹,

Mühlmann²,

Muhar³

2014

ecomont

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Traditional agricultural landscapes are hotspots of biocultural diversity but often threatened by land abandonment or changes in cultivation methods. This is a particular challenge for protected areas and their mission to safeguard the local biocultural heritage. The aim of this article is to present a typology of civil society organizations that coordinate the voluntary engagement of non-farmers for collective land care and to provide insights for those who want to initiate similar volunteers' activities to preserve cultural landscapes. We analyse 20 volunteer organizations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland with regard to the formal structure, the goals pursued, the integration of volunteers and the spatial scope of the activities. In an empirically grounded, inductively deduced typification, we identify six types of volunteer organizations: (1) volunteer tourism facilitated by agencies, (2) national nature conservation associations, (3) cultural heritage volunteering, (4) regional land care associations, (5) local landscape protection initiatives, and (6) corporate volunteering. This heterogeneity has to be taken into account when discussing options for initiating new voluntary land care action as not all types can meet the practical and formal requirements in different geographical and organizational contexts.

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Environmental Volunteering: motivations, modes and outcomes

Cited by 177 publications

References 30 publications

Recruiting and Retaining Participants in Citizen Science: What Can Be Learned from the Volunteering Literature?

Recruiting and Retaining Participants in Citizen Science: What Can Be Learned from the Volunteering Literature?

Environmental Stewardship: A Conceptual Review and Analytical Framework

Volunteering for land care – A typology of civil society organizations in Austria, Germany and Switzerland as the basis for establishing new initiatives

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