Introduction: Volunteering and Leisure / Robert A. Stebbins -- Volunteering as Heritage, Volunteering in Heritage / Margaret Graham -- Establishing Long-Term Commitment: Event Volunteering -- Adopting Sustainable Ethics: Voluntary Practice amongst Event Organizers / Graham Berridge -- Paths to Volunteer Commitment: Lessons from the Sydney Olympic Games / B. Christine Green and Laurence Chalip -- Changing Volunteer Lifestyles: Motivation and Satisfaction -- Volunteer Satisfaction and Serious Leisure in Rural Fire Departments: Implications for Human Capital and Social Capital / Kenneth B. Perkins and John Benoit -- Understanding American parks and recreation volunteers utilizing a functionalist perspective / Kenneth E. Silverberg -- A logistical regression model of the decision of volunteers to enter a sports coach education programme / Brian E. Wilson -- Politics of Volunteering and Active Citizenship: Policy Issues -- Defining field characteristics of museums and art museums: An Australian Perspective / Deborah Edwards -- Volunteering in the Canadian context: Identity, civic participation, and the politics of participation in serious leisure / Susan M. Arai -- Managing Volunteers in Different Settings: membership and Program Management / Lucas C.P.M. Meijs and Linda Bridges Karr -- Encouraging the Next Generation: Sustainability and Youth Volunteering / Lucas Meijs -- Pressures on Volunteers in the U.K. / Geoff Nichols -- Examining best practice in volunteer tourism / Stephen Wearing -- Fostering Human Resources in the Leisure Field: 'Serious Leisure' and the Potential Role of Volunteers, a Proposal for Developing Countries / Antonio Carlos Bramante -- Epilogue: Leisure Volunteering: Future Research and Policy