Nature&Society studies practical contexts which are characterized by the interaction of society with nature. Forest management, nature conservation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, wildlife management, production and use of renewable energies and related policy making are just examples of such contexts. The company´s research approach relies on interpretative and practice-based theories which consider values, worldviews, interpretations, interests and social practices of institutions and individuals as key drivers of social, political, economic and partially also environmental processes. These elements are also influencing the relation between nature and society.  

Data are retrieved by:

• in-depth literature reviews for example of 1) both social and natural science state of the art of the topic under study, 2) technical and policy documents, 3) internal documents like communications, minutes of meetings and conference summaries
  
• interviews with stakeholders and experts like landowners, land managers and lad users, scientists, policy makers operating at various international and national levels, non-governmental organizations and civil society representatives
  
• surveys and questionnaires 
  
• participant observations (retrieving data through continuous involvement in the activities and events characterizing a study field)      

Nature&Society analyzes data by blending quantitative and qualitative techniques like statistical analysis and linguistic and contextual text analysis. This is done thanks to the support of computer softwares like SPSS, Atlas.ti and MAXQA.