Today's global environment is suffering from various environmental
problems due to climate changes caused by environmental destruction and
increase of greenhouse gases. As a result of industrial revolution,
greenhouse gases increased and this incre...
Today's global environment is suffering from various environmental
problems due to climate changes caused by environmental destruction and
increase of greenhouse gases. As a result of industrial revolution,
greenhouse gases increased and this increase of greenhouse gas brought
climate changes, which brought serious problems to global ecosystem.
Today, we need to put in a great deal of effort to reduce greenhouse
gases.
In order to deal with climate changes, we need to use new and renewable
energy source, such as solar power and wind power, instead of coal or oil,
and we need to change industrial structure from energy-guzzling to energy
retrenchment structure. The governments also need to set up and operate
institutions to deal with climate changes.
In addition, in order to prevent from policy failure, vitalizing volunteer
activities of citizens to change their actions and citizenship through
environmental NGOs also came to fore.
In this study, we will measure activity satisfaction level of environmental
NGOs and analyze and study factors affecting their participation level in
order to suggest the ways to increase their satisfaction level.
Northeast Seoul Grassroots Environmental NGO, which is the subject of
this study, is made of 12 groups with around 1,200 members including
"Peoples of Jungrang river”. This group deals with issues and problems of
regional environments, makes suggestions, and makes efforts to improve
understanding and consciousness of citizens in protecting regional
environment.
The three districts including NowonGu are autonomous districts located
northeast region of the Seoul with mountains and streams, which gave
regional and geographical reasons to choose this region to study. Also, even
though apartments are the main residential type of this region, there other
multi-unit houses, general houses, and shopping districts which makes this
study to form appropriate data of regional environment.
Northeast Seoul Grassroots Environmental NGO, which is the subject of
this study, is formed with adults who actually volunteer in environmental
activities, are studied by questionnaires, e-mails, and individual interviews.
The questionnaires used in this study, was sent to 12 groups including
"Peoples of Jungrang river” and put distinction by number of members.
Total 205 questionnaires were sent to the groups, 194 questionnaires were
collected, and only 190 were used for this study, the rest of them were
unselected through data cleaning for insincere and omissive reasons. We
used SPSS program to carry out frequency analysis on personal relations,
interests, activity awareness, participation motivation and general
characteristics.
Also, we carried out factor analysis to analyze activity satisfaction level of
the environmental volunteers about independent variables, and multicenter
retrospective study for analyzing cause-and-effect relationship.
Through this study, there are three determinants that affects activity
satisfaction of volunteers. First, the study suggested that awareness of
value of activities seriously influences regional environment protection, so
that the government and local governments need to make them participate
in establishing and executing environmental policies. Second, in details of
activity, participation range and time of environmental volunteering activities
are thought to be reasonable, so that Grassroots regional environmental
NGO has positive relationship with local residents. Third, in participation
motivation, they felt improvement on their specialty, knowledge, and abilities
on environments. Also, they felt sense of belonging in society and personal
existence through their activities.
Through this study, by setting the determinants that form satisfaction of
personal relations and self-achievements among the determinants that
influences environmental volunteer's activity satisfaction level and proving
hypothesis gave opportunity to actualize environmental volunteer's activity
satisfaction level.