The meaning we assign to the world around us influences the way we behave and treat things. Therefore, it is of great importance to better understand how society views and understands fundamental challenges of our time, such as biodiversity loss. How do different social groups perceive and communicate about biodiversity? How do perceptions, communication, and worldviews intersect with values? The latest document (Report on biodiversity and related concepts perceptions) published by the PLANET4B researcher group analyses the biodiversity discourse. It [...]

Thousands of research studies, position papers and articles draw attention to the threat of biodiversity loss, yet the issue is still not on the top of policy-maker’s priority list. Why? What will change the mindset of decision-makers and what factors have significant impact on decision-making? The new report of PLANET4B collects and classifies a range of frameworks, theories, models, and concepts across a gradient of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and institutional levels of intervention to provide an inventory of behavioural- and social [...]

Do we make certain decisions because we want to avoid risks or because as women we care more or because the system defined it for us? Within PLANET4B, we want to fill a gap and map existing knowledge that explains why we make certain decisions. In this way, we can understand better how biodiversity can be prioritised in our decision making so we can avoid rampant levels of biodiversity loss. To understand what knowledge has been already collated within various [...]