Dr Hemant R Ojha’s research focuses on exploring policy and institutional options that work for both local communities and environmental sustainability. He articulates multilevel governance and explores modalities of civic engagement for democratizing environmental governance.
He has also worked on conceptualizing the links between local communities and local governance. His research engages a wide range social theories including deliberative governance, public policy, local democracy, and adaptive collaborative approaches, social learning, and paticipatory action research. He also brings rich practical and policy expereinces priori to joining academia from Asia and Africa. He has worked in Nepal, India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cameroon, the UK, and Australia. He is the co-founder and former chair of ForestAction Nepal (2000), and the founding chair of Southasia Institute of Advanced Studies (2011). He is also an honorary Senior Fellow at University of Melbourne. His book Adaptive Collaborative Approaches in Natural Resource Governance (2013) has recently come out of Routledge.
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FEATURED Journal article
Agricultural innovation and adaptation to climate change: empirical evidence from diverse agro-ecologies in South Asia
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Social inequality and food insecurity in Nepal: Risks and responses
Book Chapter
Can authority change through deliberative politics? Lessons from the four decades of parti..
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Is South Asian Agriculture Adapting to Climate Change? Evidence from the Indo-Gangetic Pla..
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Rethinking Power and Authority: Symbolic Violence and Subjectivity in Nepal's Terai Forest..
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Credentials
Positions
Positions
Honorary
Ecosystem And Forest Sciences
Education
Education
PhD in Environmental Policy
University of East Anglia