Dr. Hemant R Ojha
hro@forestaction.wlink.com.np

Dr Ojha has over 15 years of experience in research studies and development actions. He is the founder of ForestAction Nepal and continues to be its advisor. He has worked as researcher/specialist/consultant for several Nepal-based and international agencies. He did doctoral research in Development Studies (with a focus on Natural Resource Governance) from School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. His current research works include natural resource governance and social justice, deliberative processes in the context of environmental policy-making, community based forest governance, adaptive co-management of ecosystems, protected area and local people, participatory action research methodologies, and local and meso level forest governance. His research works span a wide range of geographic regions – Nepal, South Asia, Himalayas, South-East Asia, and West Africa. He has written and edited over a dozen scientific papers, as well as several practitioner-oriented products such as manuals, guidebooks and policy briefs. He has published peer-reviewed papers and articles in various international journals such as Policy and Society, International Development Planning Review, International Journal of Social Economics, International Forestry Review, Forestry Chronicle, and Policy Matters on diverse topics, encompassing policy, institutions, knowledge systems, resource management, conflict, and livelihoods. He co-edited a book “Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources: Management, Institutions and Policy in Nepal” which is published (2007) by Cambridge University Press India in collaboration with International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada. He has written a book on Reframing Governance: Understanding Deliberative Politics in Nepal’s Terai Forestry (Adroit, India).