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Hemant Ojha
RIU research fellow
RIU Asia - Nepal
Hemant Ojha has done extensive research into the interaction between science and politics in natural resource governance, social inclusion and equity, deliberative policy processes, community based natural governance, adaptive co-management of ecosystems, and social learning and participatory action research methodologies. His current research focuses on understanding adaptive collaborative approaches in agriculture and natural resource management.
He is a founder and Executive Coordinator of ForestAction Nepal (currently on sabbatical leave). He is also the founding editor of Journal of Forest and Livelihood. Besides, he is also a guest lecturer on Development Perspectives at College of Development Studies, Nepal.
He is the author of Reframing Governance: Understanding Deliberative Politics in Nepal's Terai Forestry (Adroit, India, 2008). He has also co-edited two books Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources: Management, Institutions and Policy in Nepal (Cambridge University Press India in collaboration with IDRC, 2008), and Communities, Forests and Governance: Policy and Institutional Innovations from Nepal (Adroit, India, 2008).
Hemant is compiling and editing a series of case studies exploring the evolution of adaptive collaborative approaches in agriculture and natural resources management.
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Hemant Ojha gained his PhD at the University of East Anglia, on deliberative governance in the context of structural inequality taking the case study of forestry in Nepal.
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Hemant Ojha
RIU research fellow
RIU Asia - Nepal
Hemant Ojha has done extensive research into the interaction between science and politics in natural resource governance, social inclusion and equity, deliberative policy processes, community based natural governance, adaptive co-management of ecosystems, and social learning and participatory action research methodologies. His current research focuses on understanding adaptive collaborative approaches in agriculture and natural resource management.
He is a founder and Executive Coordinator of ForestAction Nepal (currently on sabbatical leave). He is also the founding editor of Journal of Forest and Livelihood. Besides, he is also a guest lecturer on Development Perspectives at College of Development Studies, Nepal.
He is the author of Reframing Governance: Understanding Deliberative Politics in Nepal's Terai Forestry (Adroit, India, 2008). He has also co-edited two books Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources: Management, Institutions and Policy in Nepal (Cambridge University Press India in collaboration with IDRC, 2008), and Communities, Forests and Governance: Policy and Institutional Innovations from Nepal (Adroit, India, 2008).
Hemant is compiling and editing a series of case studies exploring the evolution of adaptive collaborative approaches in agriculture and natural resources management.
Education
Hemant Ojha gained his PhD at the University of East Anglia, on deliberative governance in the context of structural inequality taking the case study of forestry in Nepal.
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