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Overview

Chris Sandbrook is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Environmental Science, with a significant focus on subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Geography, Planning and Development, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Geographies of human-animal interactions
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Zoonotic diseases and public health
  • Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Chris Sandbrook has published papers in several journals, with a frequent presence in the following venues:

  • Oryx
  • Conservation Biology
  • People and Nature
  • Geoforum
  • Conservation Letters

Their recent academic publications include:

  • The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity (2022, Science)
  • Making more effective use of human behavioural science in conservation interventions (2021, Biological Conservation)
  • Imagining transformative biodiversity futures (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • Principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data (2021, Conservation Science and Practice)
  • Order of meals at the counter and distance between options affect student cafeteria vegetarian sales (2020, Nature Food)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Chris Sandbrook include:

  • Andrew Balmford
  • Emma Garnett
  • Theresa M. Marteau
  • Douglas A. Clark
  • Trishant Simlai

Best Publications

  • When and how to use Q methodology to understand perspectives in conservation research.

    Aiora Zabala;Chris Sandbrook;Chris Sandbrook;Nibedita Mukherjee

  • Community management of natural resources in Africa: impacts, experiences and future directions.

    Dilys Roe;Chris Sandbrook;Fred Nelson

  • Half-Earth or Whole Earth? Radical ideas for conservation, and their implications

    Bram Büscher;Robert Fletcher;Dan Brockington;Chris Sandbrook

  • The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity

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  • The social implications of using drones for biodiversity conservation.

    Chris Sandbrook

  • Carbon, forests and the REDD paradox.

    Chris Sandbrook;Fred Nelson;William M. Adams;Arun Agrawal

  • Conservation, evidence and policy

    William. M. Adams;Chris Sandbrook

  • Impact of increasing vegetarian availability on meal selection and sales in cafeterias.

    Emma E Garnett;Andrew Balmford;Chris Sandbrook;Mark A Pilling

  • Elasticity in ecosystem services: exploring the variable relationship between ecosystems and human well-being

    Tim M. Daw;Christina C. Hicks;Katrina Brown;Tomas Chaigneau

  • Location, location, location: considerations when using lightweight drones in challenging environments

    James P. Duffy;Andrew M. Cunliffe;Leon DeBell;Chris Sandbrook;Chris Sandbrook

  • The global conservation movement is diverse but not divided

    Chris Sandbrook;Chris Sandbrook;Janet A. Fisher;George Holmes;Rogelio Luque-Lora

  • Protecting half of the planet could directly affect over one billion people

    Judith Schleicher;Julie G. Zaehringer;Julie G. Zaehringer;Constance Fastré;Bhaskar Vira

  • Social research and biodiversity conservation.

    Christopher Sandbrook;Christopher Sandbrook;William Adams;Bram Büscher;Bhaskar Vira

  • Putting leakage in its place: The significance of retained tourism revenue in the local context in Rural Uganda

    Chris G. Sandbrook

  • Pokémon Go: Benefits, Costs, and Lessons for the Conservation Movement

    Leejiah J. Dorward;John C. Mittermeier;Chris Sandbrook;Chris Sandbrook;Fiona Spooner

  • Value Plurality among Conservation Professionals

    Chris Sandbrook;Ivan R. Scales;Bhaskar Vira;William M. Adams

  • Tourism revenue sharing policy at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda: a policy arrangements approach

    W.M. Ahebwa;V.R. van der Duim;C. Sandbrook

  • Expanding the role of social science in conservation through an engagement with philosophy, methodology and methods

    Katie Moon;Katie Moon;Deborah A. Blackman;Vanessa M. Adams;Rebecca M. Colvin

  • Digital Games and Biodiversity Conservation

    Chris Sandbrook;Chris Sandbrook;William M. Adams;Bruno Monteferri

  • Understanding conservationists’ perspectives on the new-conservation debate

    George Holmes;Chris Sandbrook;Chris Sandbrook;Janet A. Fisher

  • Local economic impact of different forms of nature‐based tourism

    Chris. G. Sandbrook

  • What is conservation

    Chris Sandbrook

Frequent Co-Authors

Dilys Roe
Dilys Roe International Institute for Environment and Development
William M. Adams
William M. Adams University of Cambridge
Theresa M. Marteau
Theresa M. Marteau University of Cambridge
Beatrice Crona
Beatrice Crona Stockholm University
Arun Agrawal
Arun Agrawal University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Bram Büscher
Bram Büscher Wageningen University & Research
Rosaleen Duffy
Rosaleen Duffy University of Sheffield
Christina C. Hicks
Christina C. Hicks Lancaster University
Lisa M. Campbell
Lisa M. Campbell Duke University
Brendan Fisher
Brendan Fisher University of Vermont

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