The Third Annual Himalayan Policy Research Conference organized by Nepal Study Center (NSC) will be held in Madison, Wisconsin at the University of Wisconsin’s 37th Annual Conference on South Asia’s pre-conference venue on October 16, 2008, at the Madison Concourse Hotel.

The conference has a separate session on Forestry issues, which starts on 10:45 A.M. to 12 Noon at Room 634. There will be 3 presentations in this session:

1. Monitoring the successes and failures of community forestry in Nepal using remote sensing and GIS technologies: 1976-2000
Keshav Bhattarai, University of Central Missouri

2. Evaluating the impact of institutional change on rural livelihood: lessons learned from Nepal's community Forestry
Arun K.C., West Virginia University
Vishakha Maskey, West Virginia University

3. Impact of conflict on conservation and local livelihoods in BNP, its buffer zone and Bardia-Katarniaghat corridor
Sushila Nepali, Institute of Forestry Pokhara
Ridish Pokharel, Tribhuvan University
Binod Bhatta, Consultant
Joel Heinen, Florida International University
Shanta Raj Jnawali, NTNC

For further information, please contact:

Professor Alok K. Bohara,
Nepal Study Center , Department of Economics, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM 87131, U.S.A. Phone: (505) 277-5903,
<bohara@unm.edu>
and/or
Dr. Vijaya Sharma,
University of Colorado, Boulder.
<vijaya.sharma@colorado.edu>

Program Outline