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The main part of this chapter consists of a lengthy review of the empirical literature supporting the different types of volunteers and volunteering set out in Chapter 4. These types are volunteering for people, material volunteering, idea and faunal volunteering, and environmental volunteering. The serious leisure perspective has so far failed to generate an equally strong interest research on all these types.
Robert A. Stebbins (Thu,) studied this question.