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Supplemental material, sj-docx-1-nvs-10.1177_08997640221093799 for An Investigation of Factors Influencing Environmental Volunteering Leadership and Participation Behaviors by Robyn E. Gulliver, Kelly S. Fielding and Winnifred R. Louis in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly

Delivering urban water security requires community engagement and participation. But, there are varying levels of interest in water-related issues within a population, the use of technical language can complicate effective communications, and achieving consensus between stakeholder groups can be difficult. This research used a survey of adults from Australia (n = 140) to show that community members can be very willing to engage in urban water security and especially desire active involvement in establishing objectives. However, they clearly demonstrate preferences for how they want to be involved and on which issues. Participants reported that they could understand complex ���level-of-service��� objectives for water security, and urban water security priorities include water quality, reliability, accessibility and sustainable quantity of supply across both short and long timeframes. The findings support the call for public participation in sustainable urban water security management, and provide rich insights for water providers in urban locations across the globe.

This chapter addresses the important role of group processes in the context of environmental issues, attitudes, and actions. It discusses why environmental attitudes and behaviours are not solely the product of individual attributes but are also affected by group memberships and the group processes associated with these memberships. The social identity approach is an account of how group memberships influence individuals' attitudes and behaviours. It incorporates two interrelated theories: social identity theory (SIT) and self-categorization theory (SCT). SCT assumes that when a social identity is salient, the self is depersonalized and people do not behave in line with their individual motives, but instead in accordance with the needs, goals, and motives associated with their shared group membership. The social identity approach addresses the important question of how particular group memberships become salient and how new social identities are formed.

Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material_Survey_EBS2.4 for Predictors of Nature Connection Among Urban Residents: Assessing the Role of Childhood and Adult Nature Experiences by Anne Cleary, Kelly S. Fielding, Zoe Murray and Anne Roiko in Environment and Behavior

Research in organizational psychology has increasingly focused on understanding the determinants of green employee behavior. The present study used a daily diary design to investigate relationships between employees' daily affect, pro-environmental attitude, as well as daily task-related pro-environmental behavior (i.e., the extent to which employees complete required work tasks in environmentally friendly ways), and daily proactive pro-environmental behavior (i.e., the extent to which employees show personal initiative when acting in environmentally friendly ways at work). Fifty-six employees working in small businesses completed a baseline survey and two daily surveys over ten workdays. Daily unactivated positive affect and pro-environmental attitude positively predicted daily task-related pro-environmental behavior. In addition, daily activated positive affect positively predicted daily proactive pro-environmental behavior among employees with a less positive pro-environmental attitude but not among employees with a more positive pro-environmental attitude. These findings suggest that fostering pro-environmental attitudes and, to some extent, positive affect among employees could help organizations to promote pro-environmental behavior in the workplace. Copyright (C) 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.