Exploring Engagement Characteristics and Behaviours of Environmental Volunteers
Exploring Engagement Characteristics and Behaviours of Environmental Volunteers
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探索环保志愿者的参与特征和行为
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2017
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M. Haklay
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Valentine Seymour;M. Haklay
环境志愿服务和环境公民科学项目都在公民参与中发挥着关键作用。然而，共同的挑战之一是招募和保留足够水平的参与者参与，以确保这些项目的可持续性。因此，理解参与模式对于这两种类型的项目都是基础。本研究使用并建立在现有的定量方法的基础上，用于描述在线公民科学项目中志愿者参与的性质，以了解线下环境志愿项目中是否存在类似的参与模式。该研究使用了英国环保慈善机构“保护志愿者”的环保志愿者的活动记录，重点关注与参与相关的三个特征：寿命、频率和旅行距离。调查结果显示，大伦敦、大曼彻斯特和约克郡这三个英国地区的参与模式和贡献者活动存在差异。聚类分析揭示了志愿者参与情况的三种主要类型，这些类型在所有地区的规模都相似，即参与者可以分为“一次性”、“短期”和“长期”志愿者。其中，“One-Session”志愿者占比最大。
Environmental volunteering and environmental citizen science projects both have a pivotal role in civic participation. However, one of the common challenges is recruiting and retaining an adequate level of participant engagement to ensure the sustainability of these projects. Thus, understanding patterns of participation is fundamental to both types of projects. This study uses and builds on existing quantitative approaches used to characterise the nature of volunteer engagement in online citizen science projects, to see whether similar participatory patterns exist in offline environmental volunteering projects. The study uses activity records of environmental volunteers from a UK environmental charity “The Conservation Volunteers,” and focuses on three characteristics linked to engagement: longevity, frequency, and distance travelled. Findings show differences in engagement patterns and contributor activity between the three UK regions of Greater London, Greater Manchester, and Yorkshire. Cluster analysis revealed three main types of volunteer engagement profiles which are similar in scale across all regions, namely participants can be grouped into “One-Session,” “Short-Term,” and “Long-Term” volunteer. Of these, the “One-Session” volunteer accounted for the largest group of volunteers.