Environmental volunteers: factors influencing their involvement in environmental action

Liarakou, Georgia; Kostelou, Eleni; Gavrilakis, Costas

doi:10.1080/13504622.2011.572159

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“…En cuanto al voluntariado y las motivaciones que lo rigen han sido ya ampliamente estudiados (Liarakou, Kostelou y Gavrilakis, 2011). Entre las evidencias más relevantes que ha puesto de manifiesto la literatura disponible destaca que el trabajo por proyectos ambientales mejora los conocimientos y actitudes de los estudiantes participantes (AlBalushia y Al-Aamri, 2014), estos hallazgos justifican nuestro modelo de investigación-acción orientado al trabajo por proyectos con universitarios.…”

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Educación-Acción: Herramientas para Afrontar la Injusticia Ambiental en una Comunidad Costera

Raimondo

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Gutiérrez-Pérez

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Este artículo pretende implementar un proceso de concienciación, empoderamiento y compromiso ciudadano. Se identifica el caso objeto de atención, un barrio costero de la ciudad de Comodoro-Rivadavia (Argentina) afectado por un problema de contaminación en el que se interviene con un programa de voluntariado universitario. Se realiza un estudio de caso a través de una estrategia de investigación-acción; la muestra la constituyen voluntarios universitarios, vecinos y responsables institucionales; los instrumentos de obtención de datos son de corte esencialmente cualitativo. Los resultados muestran que la acción educativa llevada a cabo consigue movilizar a la comunidad vecinal, haciéndole tomar conciencia del problema y generando en ella un empoderamiento que conduce a diferentes acciones que van desde la denuncia y la confrontación hasta la recreación de lazos comunitarios. En el programa la justicia social y la justicia ambiental tienden puentes que permiten pensar el futuro desde la toma de conciencia ciudadana de las condiciones de contaminación de su territorio, las causas y consecuencias ligadas a aspectos en los que lo político se entrecruza con los intereses económicos y la supervivencia en condiciones extremas de explotación de recursos naturales.Descriptores: Justicia social; Voluntariado; Contaminación; Sensibilización ambiental; Autonomización.This article aims to implement a process of citizen awareness, empowerment and commitment. The case is identified: a coastal area of the city of Comodoro-Rivadavia (Argentina) affected by a problem of pollution in which a university volunteer program is involved. A case study through an action-research strategy is used; the sample is constituted by university volunteers, neighbours and institutional leaders; the instruments of obtaining data are essentially qualitative. The results show that the educational action carried out can mobilize the neighbourhood community, making them aware of the problems and generating in it an empowerment that leads to different actions ranging from denunciation and confrontation to the recreation of community ties. In the program, social justice and environmental justice have bridges that allow us to think about the future from the citizen's awareness of the pollution conditions of its territory, the causes and consequences linked to aspects in which the political intersects with economic interests and survival in extreme conditions of exploitation of natural resources.

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Educación-Acción: Herramientas para Afrontar la Injusticia Ambiental en una Comunidad Costera

Raimondo

Palacios

Gutiérrez-Pérez

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“…The study 'Environmental Volunteering' [22] suggests that the environmental issues addressed in volunteer programmes and the standards of volunteer organisations constitute critical predictors of a volunteer's personal commitment to participation in an organisation. Learning and contact with nature clearly emerged as the most important factors in volunteer motivation for environmental activities.…”

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The plastic waste problem- a pledge for volunteer activities

Kolstee¹

2017

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In this explorative study, an overview of up to date data on plastic waste is given. Different methods of handling the plastic waste problem are described. The focus lies on volunteering. In order to get a picture of the plastic waste problem, a non-exhaustive overview is given of recent scientific and policy reports in paragraph 2. In paragraph 3 the guidelines of the UNEP and ISWA report on Global Waste Management is described. Other sources emphasize the importance of additional measurements. Those are e.g. self-organising volunteer activities in (higher-) education and volunteer cleaning up activities, respectively described in paragraph 4 and 5. In a small sample investigation to the motives for taken part in cleaning-up activities, undertaken in the Netherlands, Europe, two hypotheses were tested 'cleaning-up is a token activity' and 'taking part in cleaning-up activities promotes environmental-friendly behaviour'. In paragraph 6 the method of the inquiry is described and in paragraph 7 we see from there some evidence for an expanding involvement with pro-environmental behaviour as a result from beach cleaning-up activities. In paragraph 8 we conclude that the need for involvement with the plastic waste problem of all and on all levels, is necessary. The contribution of volunteer activities like self-organizing groups in Universities or cleaning-up projects, seems to be an important factor in behavioural change to tackle the problem of plastic waste.

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“…Intra-individual variables such as personality and attitude characteristics appear to be important contributors to lasting changes in environmentally-friendly behaviors [18,19]. Involvement in and conscientiousness about environmental issues have been associated with demographic factors such as gender and one's academic major [20,21]. Establishing more clearly which intra-personality factors contribute to positive environmental attitudes may be important to both producing and maintaining permanent changes in behavior.…”

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The Relationship of Social Justice Beliefs to Environmental Attitudes among Students at a Private University

Vandiver¹

2016

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The goal of the present study was to examine the relationship of social justice beliefs, gender, religiousness, and ethnicity on environmental attitudes among college students at a private university. Participants in the current research with higher scores on social justice measures also had higher scores on three environmental measures: attitudes toward the environment, conscientiousness about the environment and involvement in environment issues. Gender, race/ethnicity, and college major were not found to be statistically significant. Future research should examine the role of social justice beliefs on environmental attitudes in more general populations of college students.

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Environmental volunteers: factors influencing their involvement in environmental action

Cited by 45 publications

References 33 publications

Educación-Acción: Herramientas para Afrontar la Injusticia Ambiental en una Comunidad Costera

Educación-Acción: Herramientas para Afrontar la Injusticia Ambiental en una Comunidad Costera

The plastic waste problem- a pledge for volunteer activities

The Relationship of Social Justice Beliefs to Environmental Attitudes among Students at a Private University

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