The white paper „Methoden der empirischen Erhebung von Werthaltungen für die Bio-diversitätsforschung” written by Uta Böhm from the Center for Technology and Society (ZTG) at the Technical University of Berlin and Julius Wenzig from the ZNU – Center for Sustainable Leadership at the University of Witten/Herdecke provides an overview of the state of knowledge on possible methods, approaches and studies to survey societal value attitudes towards biodiversity.
The focus of the white paper is on empirical methods that are suitable for recording social values on biodiversity in Germany. Quantitative and qualitative survey methods are considered to capture value attitudes towards biodiversity in general as well as the awareness of the connection between food production and biodiversity.