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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: effects of volunteering on the development of place attachment and stewardship of natural places
  name:
    name part: Eccles, Kate.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Kyle, Gerard T.
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore how volunteers engaged in natural-area based projects develop attachments to the resource and act as stewards for these resources. The context of this study was the National Park Service's All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) project. This project recruits citizen scientist volunteers to go out into the field with scientists to help collect and catalogue species in the park in an attempt to generate an all inclusive species inventory. Using data collected during indepth interviews and notes taken from participant observations, this study found ATBI participants' motivations to volunteer in the project were multifaceted and included (a) an attachment to the park, (b) an attachment to specific species, (c) the social bonds to other volunteers, (d) the bioblitz experience itself, (e) and/or the opportunity to learn about the natural environment. Analysis of the data also found volunteer informants had personal, well defined meanings attached to the resource prior to the inception of the ATBI project. Through participation in the ATBI project, however, the resource was experienced in a new way, with new meanings emerging while other established meanings were refined. It was found that these established, emerging, and refined meanings formed the foundation of the informants' attachments to the ATBI resource(s), which in turn became the basis for their stewardship of their respective parks, as well as feelings of stewardship for natural areas beyond park boundaries.
  note: by Kate Eccles.
  note: "Major Subject: Recreation, Park, and Tourism Sciences"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-03-12 12:08:51).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-547
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major recreation, park and tourism sciences
  subject:
    topic: Volunteering
  subject:
    topic: Place Attachment
  subject:
    topic: Stewardship
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-547
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100426
    record change date: 20151201120102.0
    record identifier: in00002596602