Identifying the motivations of environmental volunteers

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Generation green: understanding the motivations and mechanisms influencing young adults' environmental volunteering (2011, background): “…environmental volunteerism specifically, research has also shown that environmental volunteers are often motivated to volunteer for biospheric concerns and for reasons specifically related to the nature of the cause (Donald, 1997; Ryan et al., 2001; Bruyere & Rappe, 2007; Measham & Barnett, 2007).”
Drivers of entrepreneurial intentions in sustainable entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Moreover, individuals who are more oriented toward sustainable development and preserving nature tend also to act according to their values (Bruyere and Rappe, 2007; Wagner, 2012).”
Conservation Volunteers' Connection to Nature (2009, positive): “Researchers have found that benefi ting the environment is an important motivator for conservation volunteers ( Still & Gerhold, 1997 ; Miles, Sullivan, & Kuo, 1998 ; Haas, 2000 ; Schroeder, 2000 ; Ryan et al., 2001 ; Bruyere & Rappe, 2007 ; Fraser, Clayton, Sickler, & Taylor, 2009 ).”
Motivational functionalism and urban conservation stewardship: implications for volunteer involvement (2012, background): “As in many other similar studies (e.g., Bruyere & Rappe 2007; Bramston et al. 2011), respondents in our study ranked the environment as the most important motivator of volunteerism.”