Crossing a seasonal stream in Gbimsi flooded due to heavy rain, during fieldwork in Northern Ghana in 2008
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You have reached Mahesh Poudyal's personal webspace. I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Forest Resource Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Umeå. I work within the competence area of Forest in Rural Studies in the section of Forest Resource Analysis. My primary area of research focus at present is in the forest commons, in Sweden and elsewhere. I am also associated with ForestAction Nepal as a Research Fellow, and worked there from April to August 2011. Until March 2011, I was a Research Associate at the Centre for Ecology Law and Policy (CELP) in Environment Department at the University of York, UK. At York, I was involved in EU sixth framework project on 'sustainable management of shea (Vitellaria paradoxa) in Sudano-Sahelian zone', and worked as the leader for the workpackage looking at the shea parkland dynamics in relation to climate and land use. Prior to that, I was a PhD student/researcher at York (2005-2009) - based jointly in Environment and Politics Departments. I have a Masters degree from Simon Fraser University in Canada in Resources Management, and a BSc in Environment, Economics and Ecology from the University of York, UK.
My PhD research focussed on the tree tenure issues in agroforestry parklands in West Africa, with a case study from Northern Ghana. My research interests are in socioeconomic aspects of natural resources management and use, especially on the institutional arrangements and their impacts on the access to and the distribution of benefits from the resources. The focus of my work is usually on the poverty-livelihoods-environment nexus. In the past, I've been involved in studies looking at leasehold forestry (Nepal), rhino conservation and park-people conflicts (Nepal).
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