An Introduction to the Article Collection “Measuring Attitudes and Tendencies of Degradation” Authors Ayline Heller GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany Marius Dilling Else-Frenkel-Brunswik-Institute, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany Peter Schmidt Institute of Political Science and Centre for International Development and Environment (ZEU), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany