Datasets from a Germany-wide business survey on voluntary nature conservation commitments

The data stems from a Germany-wide business survey about voluntary corporate commitments for the protection of biodiversity and natural ecosystems. The main purpose of the survey was to analyse in how far businesses are engaged for nature conservation as well as the factors that influence their actions in this regard. Moreover, the survey investigated business perceptions regarding the concept of an online-marketplace for nature conservation credits. The datasets include information about company characteristics. The complete dataset (i.e. “dataset_complete”) contains information from 747 respondents that logged into the online survey system. Out of those, the first subset (i.e. “subset_1”) comprises the responses from 618 companies that provided sufficiently complete questionnaires, suitable for an analysis of drivers for corporate conservation commitments. The dataset was migrated from the ZALF Open Research Data Portal to the BonaRes Repository. Content of the dataset was not changed.