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Multispecies Livelihoods: Partnering for Sustainable Development and Biodiversity Conservation

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Partnerships for the Goals

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

Definition

Two key definitions are relevant to the context of this chapter. The first, “multispecies livelihoods,” refers to human and nonhuman animals possessing equal rights to (co)exist and to secure life’s provisions in a way that does not violate another’s, with the exception of self-security or sustenance hunting. The second key definition is “sustainable development” which indicates meeting socioeconomic, sociopolitical, sociocultural, or socioenvironmental development needs in a sustainable manner.

Introduction

Earth has entered its sixth major species extinction phase in what geologists call the Anthropocene (Crutzen 2002, 2016), unique for being the first time a single species’ activities, humans (Homo sapiens), have direly altered the planet’s geological structure (Adelman 2018). This climate emergency demands immediate action if biodiversity is to be conserved, as more than 60% of the world’s wildlife has died off in the last 50 years (Grooten and Almond 2018). Terrestrial...

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    Bastian Thomsen

  2. Boise State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

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  3. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Bastian Thomsen

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  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

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Thomsen, B., Thomsen, J. (2021). Multispecies Livelihoods: Partnering for Sustainable Development and Biodiversity Conservation. In: Leal Filho, W., Marisa Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Partnerships for the Goals. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95963-4_99

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