Krause M S, Matzdorf B, Droste N
Research Area Land Use and Governance, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany.
Institute of Environmental Planning, Leibniz University of Hanover, Herrenhäuser Str. 2, 30419 Hanover, Germany.
Data Brief. 2020 Dec 8;33:106625. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2020.106625. eCollection 2020 Dec.
To preserve biodiversity and ecosystem services, company engagement is crucial. However, available data on manager views and perceptions regarding nature conservation in particular is rare. The presented survey data gives insights into current levels and forms of business commitments for nature conservation. The data contributes to understanding business attitudes towards voluntary conservation action and includes information about factors that influence their engagement. Moreover, the data informs about manager perceptions towards the concept of nature conservation credits and, as such, allows for an evaluation of a certified biodiversity and ecosystem services market. Importantly, the dataset contains essential company characteristics to put responses into greater context. The scope of the survey is limited to German companies from secondary and tertiary sectors. Companies were sampled through proportional stratified random sampling based on size and location. The data was collected through a self-administered online-survey, conducted in 2019. The database comprises responses of 747 companies that logged into the online system. The survey data were in part analysed through structural equation modelling for an investigation of factors that drive voluntary conservation commitments [1]. Related to this analysis, a subset of 618 companies is available that provided sufficiently completed questionnaires. Both datasets, i.e. the raw data as well as the first subset used for analysis, are hosted in the public repository Open Research Data of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany. The repository also stores all coding information as well as the questionnaire: https://www.doi.org/10.4228/ZALF.DK.149. The dataset can be used, for example, by researchers from the field of environmental business management and strategy.
为了保护生物多样性和生态系统服务，企业的参与至关重要。然而，特别是关于管理者对自然保护的看法和认知的现有数据却很少。所呈现的调查数据深入了解了当前企业在自然保护方面的参与程度和形式。这些数据有助于理解企业对自愿保护行动的态度，并包含了影响其参与的因素的信息。此外，这些数据还能反映管理者对自然保护信用概念的看法，从而有助于评估一个经过认证的生物多样性和生态系统服务市场。重要的是，该数据集包含了企业的基本特征，以便更好地理解调查结果。调查范围仅限于德国第二和第三产业的公司。根据规模和地理位置，通过比例分层随机抽样对公司进行了抽样。数据是通过2019年进行的自我管理在线调查收集的。该数据库包含747家登录在线系统的公司的回复。部分调查数据通过结构方程模型进行分析，以研究推动自愿保护承诺的因素[1]。与此分析相关的是，有一个由618家公司组成的子集，它们提供了足够完整的问卷。这两个数据集，即原始数据以及用于分析的第一个子集，都存放在德国莱布尼茨农业景观研究中心（ZALF）的公共存储库开放研究数据中。该存储库还存储了所有编码信息以及问卷：https://www.doi.org/10.4228/ZALF.DK.149。例如，环境商业管理和战略领域的研究人员可以使用该数据集。
