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Adventure volunteering or volunteering for adventure: The use of volunteers for environmental management
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Marsden-Smedley, JB, Adventure volunteering or volunteering for adventure: The use of volunteers for environmental management, School of Geography & Environmental Studies Conference Abstracts, 2010, 28 June 2010, Sandy Bay, pp. 1. (2010) [Conference Extract]
Abstract
Land management agencies are frequently between a rock and a hard place due to the increasing gap between the resources required for effective environmental management versus the resources actually available. Adventure volunteering has the potential to assist land managers by providing a pool of effective, motivated and experienced workers, whilst also providing volunteers with positive and rewarding experiences so that they remain in the program and long-term follow-up works are performed. This paper will discuss these issues, outline a set of criteria that need to be met for programs to be effective and provide examples from groups doing remote area weed management in Tasmania.
Item Details
Item Type: | Conference Extract |
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Keywords: | volunteers, land management |
Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
Research Group: | Environmental management |
Research Field: | Environmental management |
Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
Objective Group: | Other environmental management |
Objective Field: | Other environmental management not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Marsden-Smedley, JB (Dr Jonathan Marsden-Smedley) |
ID Code: | 65573 |
Year Published: | 2010 |
Deposited By: | Geography and Environmental Studies |
Deposited On: | 2010-11-23 |
Last Modified: | 2010-11-23 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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