A5001166882- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Forest Management and Policy
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Water resources management and optimization
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- French Urban and Social Studies
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Social and Cultural Dynamics
- South Asian Studies and Conflicts
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- International Development and Aid
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation
2024
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
2023
University of Canberra
2018-2023
Australian National University
2023
ACT Government
2021-2022
Policy Analysis (United States)
2020
UNSW Sydney
2013-2019
Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de São Paulo
2013-2019
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
2013
Institute for Social and Environmental Research-Nepal
2013
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design implementation; (iii) a retrofitting into existing development agendas; (iv) lack critical engagement with...
Policy relevanceNepal's position as one of the countries most at risk from climate change in Himalayas has spurred significant international support to craft policy responses over past few years.Focusing on National Adaptation Programme Action (NAPA) and Climate Change Policy, this article examines extent which internationally scientifically framed Nepal recognizes unfolding political mobilizations around demand for a representative state equitable adaptation risks.This is particularly...
ABSTRACT Recent work on authority, power and the state has opened up important avenues of inquiry into practices contexts through which is exercised. Why certain forms authority emerge as more durable legitimate than others remains a challenge, however. In this article we bring together two bodies thought to engage issue, feminist theories subjectivity Bourdieu's ideas symbolic violence, in order explore how are reproduced entrenched. Our purpose advance theorizing context contentious...
Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever. Progress feeding the world’s billions has slowed, while challenge of meeting future food needs remains enormous and subject to new uncertainties global systems. In late 1950s around a billion people were estimated go hungry every day. Scientists, policymakers, farmers, ordinary initiated concerted push boost production productivity developing countries. Great strides also made improving quality ability...
Nepal has experienced recent changes in two crucial climatic variables: temperature and precipitation. Therefore, climate-induced water security concerns have now become more pronounced as precipitation already altered some hydrological processes such the river runoff systems. However, linkage between patterns streamflow characteristics are poorly understood, especially small rivers. We analysed temporal trends of temperature, precipitation, extreme indices wet dry spells Rosi watershed...
After the introduction of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, existing development institutions are being assessed for their roles achieving SDGs. In this context, we aim to assess how and what extent Nepal's community forestry (CF) is contributing achieve Using an institutional interaction perspective, conducted policy analysis, literature review expert consultation. The analysis was guided by six analytical questions covering provision, practices, actors' perception. four decades...
A recent study has demonstrated that local level monitoring systems, could encourage learning and adaptiveness in forest management, are poorly developed, this presents a constraint to equitable active management of forests. This paper reviews the contextual factors emerging concepts monitoring, identifies gaps prospects. Based on lessons gained thus far, strategies for facilitating also explored.
SUMMARY Community based natural resource management (CBNRM) is predominantly viewed as a practice undertaken by local community. Despite prolific research on CBNRM, little known how multi-scale regimes evolve to influence and shape level practices in specific contexts. In this paper, I demonstrate that Nepal's community forestry initiatives have evolved into of governance beyond the level. also argue regime view CBNRM helps understand different actors including donors, various government...
In recent years, growing water insecurity in the Himalayan region has attracted new scientific research and fresh attention on policy. this paper, we synthesize field evidence from a sample of five cities—three Nepal two western Indian Himalayas—on various forms cities’ responses to such challenges. We gathered conducted these cities between 2014 2018. show how different types towns (mainly hilltop, foot hill, river side, touristic, regional trading hub) are struggling secure for their...
Abstract Over the past decade, widespread concern has emerged over how environmental governance can be transformed to avoid impending catastrophes such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and livelihood insecurity. A variety of approaches have emerged, focusing on either politics, technological breakthrough, social movements, or macro-economic processes main drivers change. In contrast, this paper presents theoretical insights about systemic change in triggered by critical intellectually...