A5080944701- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Agricultural Economics and Practices
- Water resources management and optimization
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Animal Diversity and Health Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Cambodian History and Society
- Agroforestry and silvopastoral systems
Tribhuvan University
2022
Birds Canada
2021
International Union for Conservation of Nature
2020
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
1970-2011
Working with indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is vital for inclusive assessments of nature nature's linkages people. Indigenous peoples' concepts about what constitutes sustainability, example, differ markedly from dominant sustainability discourses. The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity Ecosystems Services (IPBES) promoting dialogue across different systems globally. In 2017, member states IPBES adopted an ILK Approach including: procedures people; a participatory mechanism;...
The vast natural resources of India's forests, including non-timber forest products (NTFPs), such as medicinal and aromatic plants, leaves, fruits, seeds, resins, gums, bamboos, canes, offer employment that provides up to half the income about 25 per cent country's rural labour force. However, poor harvesting practices over-exploitation in face increasing market demand are threatening sustainability these resources, thus livelihoods forest-dependent tribal communities. This article analyses...
The Indus River Basin is characterized by downstream areas with the world's largest irrigation system, providing food and energy security to more than 215 million people. arid semiarid basin classified as a net water deficit area, but it also suffers from devastating floods. Among four countries, Pakistan most dependent on originating in high mountain catchments therefore vulnerable climatic, socioeconomic, other global changes that are impacting both supply demand. Given consensus there...
There is a general agreement that Climate Change impacting Nepal rather disproportionately compared to its size and own meagre contribution of the green house gases. However, given location between two rapidly growing economies India China, cannot escape increasing influence climate global changes. The retreating glaciers (average retreat more than 30 m/year), rapid rise in temperature (>0.06°C), erratic rainfalls increase frequency extreme events such as floods drought like situation are...
In pursuit of sustainable forest conservation, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal have promoted participatory management (PFM) approaches such as community forestry, joint management, social forestry. This study assessed these based on policy legal frameworks, organizational arrangements, decentralization authority, which are considered the fundamental requirements for success PFM. The findings analysis revealed that although there is a tendency among all four countries moving toward PFM,...
Under the new constitution adopted in 2015, Nepal embraced federal structure of government comprising seven provincial and 753 local governments, each with their own legislative, judicial, executive powers. Nepal’s agriculture sector provides livelihoods to about 60% population. However, its bottlenecks are rooted poor implementation agricultural policies plans, low levels investment, uncertain political commitment weak governance, especially a lack an effective service delivery mechanism...
Although there is no unified view among the policy makers and development experts on what represents drives a Green Economy also clarity it means for mountain countries like Nepal, concept however, very pertinent in context of rapid climate change unsustainable development. There general agreement that green economy provides opportunities developing forest rich country Nepal as fossil fuel-based import oriented consumerism based cannot be successful today future. It likely could good vehicle...