Environmental Stewardship
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Project Aims and Outcomes
Help us identify what is needed to support volunteers!
Volunteers, or stewards, are a vital and necessary part of the achievement of many pro-environmental group’s objectives. While there has been previous work to understand what differentiates stewards from non-stewards, there is been little research in Australia to identify and explore what enables these stewards to maintain their commitment to volunteering in the long-term (i.e., to not ‘drop out’ or ‘burn out’) and how volunteering might influence their capacity and motivation to engage in other types of pro-environmental behaviours or actions more broadly (i.e., behavioural spill-over). Through a better understanding of the characteristics of stewards, and what factors influence the achievement of lasting positive impacts, recommendations can be made for developing more effective pro-environmental stewardship programs.
The aim of this project is to identify the key characteristics of volunteers that maintain their participation in pro-environmental stewardship programs with Australian volunteer organisations. These insights that can be used to inform future program design to achieve lasting and wide scale positive impacts for the environment as well as the volunteers.
Volunteers, or stewards, are a vital and necessary part of the achievement of many pro-environmental group’s objectives. While there has been previous work to understand what differentiates stewards from non-stewards, there is been little research in Australia to identify and explore what enables these stewards to maintain their commitment to volunteering in the long-term (i.e., to not ‘drop out’ or ‘burn out’) and how volunteering might influence their capacity and motivation to engage in other types of pro-environmental behaviours or actions more broadly (i.e., behavioural spill-over). Through a better understanding of the characteristics of stewards, and what factors influence the achievement of lasting positive impacts, recommendations can be made for developing more effective pro-environmental stewardship programs.
The aim of this project is to identify the key characteristics of volunteers that maintain their participation in pro-environmental stewardship programs with Australian volunteer organisations. These insights that can be used to inform future program design to achieve lasting and wide scale positive impacts for the environment as well as the volunteers.
Method
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Australian residents (18+) that have recently participated in a pro-environmental stewardship program will be invited to participate in the online survey through an emailed invitation from environmental groups across Australia such as Conservation Volunteers Australia, Bush Heritage Australia, Greening Australia and local Bushcare groups.
The survey is voluntary and will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. Participants will be asked a range of questions about the nature of participation in pro-environmental stewardship programs, including their levels of engagement, perceived impacts and benefits, and willingness to continue. |
Project Team
The project is led by Dr Angela Dean, University of Queensland and is funded by the NSW Environmental Trust.
Project Partners
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