UQ Postdoctoral Research Fellow

• Phone: 61+ 7 3365 1528
• Fax: 61+ 7 3365 9016
• Email:
  • k.shrestha@uq.edu.au
  • kkstha@hotmail.com

Qualifications

• PhD (Community Forestry, Equity & Political Ecology) 2005, The University of Sydney;
• Master of Env. Eng. Management, 1999, University of Technology Sydney;
• Master of Anthropology (1 st year), 1997, Tribhuvan University , Nepal ;
• Bachelor of Science in Forestry, 1995, Tribhuvan University (Distinction).

Research interests

• Community-based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM);
• Environmental Governance & Participatory Environmental Planning and Management;
• Political Ecology & Socio-environmental Justice.

Geographical focus

• Australia , Nepal and India (extending to the Philippines)

Research program/projects in 2006/2007

• The state and effects of decentralised natural resource management in Australia, Nepal and the Philippines;
• Political ecology and socio-environmental justice: Investigating the intersection between political and economic processes and the social and ecological conditions at the local level in participatory environmental planning and management in Australia and Nepal;
• The politics of urban environmental planning and management: The case of Malabar Headland, Sydney Australia.

Professional affiliations

• Member: Institute of Australian Geographers (IAG)
• Voting Member: Institute of Foresters Australia (IFA)
• Life Member: Nepal Foresters Association (NFA)

Other activities

• UQ Discrimination and Harassment Contact Officer
• Justice of the Peace (Qualified), Queensland
• Member: Community Advisory Committee for Special Broadcasting Services (SBS), Australia.