Bhim
Adhikari has 13 years research and professional experience in
poverty-environment nexus, ecological economics and community-based
natural resource management in south Asia. He was an UK Economic
and Social Research Council (ESRC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow
at the University of York in which he was researching on institutional
economics of community-based natural resource management in
Nepal. Bhim’s most recent affiliation was with IUCN –The
World Conservation Union where he was involved in developing
IUCN’s programme on poverty-environment linkages, environmental
economics, environmental fiscal reforms along with coordinating
other poverty and livelihoods related research and programme
development of IUCN Pakistan.
He has received a number of professional trainings in environmental
and development from various international academic institutions.
Bhim has published two book chapters and over a dozen of research
articles in international journals such as Environment and
Development Economics, Ecological Economics, Journal of Development
Studies, Journal of Environmental Management, African Journal
of Ecology and Forest Policy and Economics. Bhim is currently
working as a Research Fellow in the School of Natural Resources
and Environment at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
USA. He holds a PhD in Environmental Economics and Management
from the University of York, United Kingdom.
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