The 'socioenvironmental state'conceptualisation probes how contested, shifting, emergent
boundaries of the state contain the possibilities for transformative change in the …

Community forestry praxis has a long history in Nepal. The country is often considered an
exemplar in promoting community forestry for environment and development. In this paper …

Maladaptation to climate change is often portrayed as arising from the unjust exclusion of
vulnerable people. In turn, analysts have proposed knowledge co-production with …

Why should a parcel of agricultural land be abandoned when there is a scarcity of food? In
this paper, we address this question in relation to the hills of Nepal, where agricultural land …

Community forestry (CF) is increasingly recognized as one of the key solutions to forest
management and governance challenges in the developing world. At its heart is the …

Whether and how science can improve public policy is a highly contested topic in both the
scholarly domains and the world of policy and practice. The research community often finds …

Evolution of public policy is governed by various factors of political change, institutional
realignment, and global environmental discourse. Improved understanding of these factors …

Over the past decade, widespread concern has emerged over how environmental
governance can be transformed to avoid impending catastrophes such as climate change …

The governance of environmental resources holds the key to the future of sustainable
development in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH). 1. Institutional innovation—for landscape …

Protected areas account for nearly a quarter of the total area of Nepal and over eighty
percent of its Himalayan region. National parks—which are governed by top-down policies …