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ArticleAmbio2021

What determines the success and failure of environmental crowdfunding?

Takahiro Kubo, Diogo Veríssimo, Shinya Uryu, Taro Mieno, Douglas MacMillan

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Article in Ambio, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Takahiro KuboSchool of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, 78 Marlowe Building, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, UK. t.kubo-406@kent.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4832-5539
Diogo VeríssimoDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Shinya UryuCenter for Environmental Biology and Ecosystem Studies, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan.
Taro MienoAgricultural Economics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA.
Douglas MacMillanSchool of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, 78 Marlowe Building, Canterbury, CT2 7NR, UK.

Funding

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Overseas Research Fellowships
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Online crowdfunding can help address the perennial financial shortfalls in environmental conservation and management. Although many online crowdfunding campaigns fail to collect any funds due to not achieving their targets, little is known about what drives success. To address this knowledge gap, we applied a mixed-methods approach to data from 473 successful and failed campaigns hosted on the online crowdfunding platform Readyfor. We found that fundraising performance varied by topic, with campaigns on pet animal management outperforming those focussed on landscape management and sustainable use. We also found that marketing strategies associated with online findability and increased reach through social networks, increased fundraising success. However, the existence of other environmental campaigns running simultaneously, reduced the chance of success, which implies that the selecting popular topics does not always increase the likelihood of success due to increased competition. Wider applications of marketing could enhance the ability of environmental crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds.

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CrowdsourcingFund RaisingAnimalsKnowledgeProbabilityBehaviourCharityConservation financeConservation marketingDonationFundraising

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PMID33754325
PMCPMC8285433

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