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Conservation of Mammals

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Life on Land

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Conservation geopolitics:

The linkages between conservation outcomes and the political, social, and economic arrangements within and (resulting) relationships between countries.

Transdisciplinary conservation:

The formidably potent intersection of top-down (nations) and bottom-up (citizens) approaches to wildlife conservation.

Introduction

Transdisciplinary Conservation (Macdonald 2019) is the formidably potent intersection of top-down (nations) and bottom-up (citizens) approaches to wildlife conservation (Fig. 1). From both trajectories, and based on earthily evidence-based research, the goal is human behavior change. Rather than combining insights generated by separate academic disciplines (interdisciplinarity), transdisciplinarity works across disciplinary boundaries to generate holistic forms of knowledge (Macdonald 2019).

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Top-down and bottom-up approaches. (From Macdonald 2019, with permission)

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  1. Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), Department of Zoology, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, University of Oxford, Tubney, UK

    David W. Macdonald

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Macdonald, D.W. (2019). Conservation of Mammals. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_45-1

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