Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Volunteering as Heritage/ Volunteering in Heritage -- Part I Establishing Long-term Commitment: Event Volunteering -- 2 Adopting Sustainable Ethics: Voluntary Practice Amongst Event Organizers -- 3 Paths to Volunteer Commitment: Lessons from the Sydney Olympic Games -- Part II Changing Volunteer Lifestyles: Motivation and Satisfaction -- 4 Volunteer Satisfaction and Serious Leisure in Rural Fire Departments: Implications for Human Capital and Social Capital1 -- 5 Understanding American Parks and Recreation Volunteers Utilizing a Functionalist Perspective -- 6 A Logistic Regression Model of the Decision of Volunteers to Enter a Sports Coach Education Programme 6 -- Part III Politics of Volunteering and Active Citizenship: Policy Issues -- 7 Defining Field Characteristics of Museums and Art Museums: an Australian Perspective -- 8 Volunteering in the Canadian Context: Identity, Civic Participation and the Politics of Participation in Serious Leisure -- 9 Managing Volunteers in Different Settings: Membership and Programme Management -- Part IV Encouraging the Next Generation: Sustainability and Youth Volunteering -- 10 Pressures on Volunteers in the UK -- 11 Examining Best Practice in Volunteer Tourism -- 12 Fostering Human Resources in the Leisure Field: 'Serious Leisure' and the Potential Role of Volunteers. A Proposal for Developing Countries -- 13 Epilogue -- Index.