Emergency volunteering: where do we go from here?

摘要

The landscape of volunteering is not what it used to be, and emergency management organisations in Australia are feeling the impacts. The numbers of people engaging in the classic or traditional style of volunteering are declining. Traditional style volunteering is directed by formal organisations, is long-term, and high commitment. Data available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows a decline in the last few years of the number of people engaged in this type of volunteering, and a decline also in the average number of hours that people dedicate to this volunteering (Oppenheimer et al. 2015).