عوامل موثر در جلب مشاركت سازمان هاي غير دولتي در حفاظت از محيط زيست

Factors Affecting on Public Participation of Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Environmental Conservation

Prevalence and diversity of non government organizations is indicative of social and political maturity in any given society. Nowadays, an important concern of NGOs is their strive in how to attract peopleʹs participation in conserving the environment. To promote these organizations participation in the environmental conservation, need arise as to determine the factors influencing their participation, and this must be done through a scientific research. The present study is intended to form the core of this research. The static population is comprised of a hundred members from the board of directors of 20 NGOs (active in environment conservation) from Tehran province of Iran. The reliability of the questionnaire was made known, to an extent of more than 80 percent pretest and with a calculation of Cronbachʹs Alpha for the factors of cultural, informational, managerial, social, economical, and motivational. Results indicated that there is not any significant difference between male and female and degree of participation (t=0.772). Correlation coefficient revealed a significant relationship between participation and age, precedence in environmental activities (p=0.01) and level of education (p=0.06).The regression analysis showed that 48.8 percent of participation variance was determined by following variables; level of education, experience in environmental activities, information- related variables, and social- related variables.