Environmental Justice in Nepal: Origins, Struggles and Prospects

Environmental Justice in Nepal book cover.

Event Date

Location
142 Hunt Hall

Please join Jonathan London for a presentation about his recent co-edited book, Environmental Justice in Nepal: Origins, Struggles and Prospects (Routledge 2024). Jonathan will describe the engaged scholarship process for developing the book with the Nepalese scholars and activists, present the overview chapter (Towards a New Paradigm for Environmental Justice Studies in Nepal), and screen recorded videos of two of the book authors: Dhirendra Nalbo (book chapter: Protected Areas and Expendable Communities: Human-Wildlife Conflict Survivors and Unjust Compensation in the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve) and Kanchan Lama (book chapter: Environmental Justice in Confronting Gendered Access to Land in Nepal: Joint Land Ownership as a Promising Practice.)

Light refreshments will be served.

Event co-sponsored by Public Scholarship and Engagement, Global Affairs, and The Institute of the Environment’s Environmental and Climate Justice Hub.

The book is available for free download here.