Nabin Baral

Biographic Data

ID223924
NAMENabin Baral
GIVEN NAMESNabin
FAMILY NAMEBaral
SIGNATUREBARAL N
AFFILIATIONSVirginia Tech
ORCID0000-0001-6947-0412
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Variations in Mentorship Across Grade Levels and Career Stages Among Public Management Professionals

    Open AccessNabin Baral, Lee K Cerveny et al.ARTICLEPublic Personnel Management2024

    Mentoring is important to career development and employee morale of public sector employees, but little is known about how employee mentoring needs change over the course of one’s career or at different job classification levels. An online survey about the mentoring needs of 251 aquatic professionals in the USDA Forest Service was conducted in 2019. Quantitative data were analyzed across three federal employee grade levels and four career stages.…

  • What explains tourists’ support for snow leopard conservation in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

    J H Hanson, Maurice Schutgens et al.ARTICLEHuman Dimensions of Wildlife2018

    Wildlife tourism is increasingly important for the conservation of threatened species such as snow leopards. However, what tourists know or value about snow leopards, and to what extent they support the conservation of this species, has received limited empirical attention. This paper investigates tourist knowledge about snow leopards, beliefs and values toward the species, and support for its conservation in the Annapurna Conservation Area of Ne…

  • How Sustainability Is Reflected in the S&P 500 Companies’ Strategic Documents

    Open AccessNabin Baral, Mohan P PokharelARTICLEOrganization & Environment2017

    This study’s goal was to analyze the contents of the S&P 500 companies’ mission, vision, and values statements to measure the extent to which they reflect the concept of sustainability. Data were collected from public domains (reports and websites) between April and June, 2013. Using inductive methods, we assessed corporations to reflect sustainability when their stated goal was not only to generate profits but also to care about people and the p…

  • How much are wood-based cellulosic biofuels worth in the Pacific Northwest? Ex-ante and ex-post analysis of local people's willingness to pay

    Open AccessNabin Baral, Sergey S Rabotyagov et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2017References: 1

  • Diversifying finance mechanisms for protected areas capitalizing on untapped revenues

    Open AccessNabin Baral, Anal DhunganaARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2014Cited by: 2References: 2

  • Mick Smith

    Open AccessNabin BaralARTICLEHuman Ecology2012

  • Capital Stocks and Organizational Resilience in the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

    Nabin Baral, Mark J SternARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2011Cited by: 4References: 8

    We have undertaken empirical research to explore relationships between the stock of various capitals and the resilience of conservation area management committees (CAMCs)—the functional decision-making units of community-based conservation—within the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal. We surveyed 190 members of 30 CAMCs during the summer of 2007, estimated the capital stocks of each CAMC, and interviewed 13 park officials to assess the degree of…

  • Growth, Collapse, and Reorganization of the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal

    Open AccessNabin Baral, Mark J Stern et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2010Cited by: 2

    Baral, N., M. J. Stern, and J. T. Heinen. 2010. Growth, collapse, and reorganization of the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal: an analysis of institutional resilience. Ecology and Society 15(3): 10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-03534-150310

  • Contingent valuation of ecotourism in Annapurna conservation area, Nepal

    Open AccessNabin Baral, Mark J Stern et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2008

  • Decentralization and people's participation in conservation

    Nabin Baral, Joel T HeinenARTICLEInternational Journal of…2007

    Nepal formally embarked on decentralized participatory conservation programmes in 1990. To assess who participates in and benefits from such programmes, stratified random questionnaire surveys of 234 households and interviews with 29 user group chairs were conducted in the buffer zones of two protected areas of the Nepalese Terai: Bardia National Park and Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve. The Poisson regression shows that gender, education, household…

  • The Maoist people's war and conservation in Nepal

    Nabin Baral, Joel T HeinenARTICLEPolitics and the Life Sciences2005Cited by: 2References: 1

    Civil wars are frequent in lesser-developed nations, wherein is harbored a disproportionate share of the world's biodiversity. These wars have had serious detrimental effects, direct and indirect, on conservation programs. From 2001 to 2005, we conducted site visits, personal interviews, and document searches bearing upon this problem as exemplified by Nepal's ongoing Maoist insurgency. Cases of insurgents usurping full control of several protect…

  • The Maoist people's war and conservation in Nepal

    Nabin Baral, Joel T HeinenARTICLEPolitics and the Life Sciences2005Cited by: 9References: 3

    Civil wars are frequent in lesser-developed nations, wherein is harbored a disproportionate share of the world's biodiversity. These wars have had serious detrimental effects, direct and indirect, on conservation programs. From 2001 to 2005, we conducted site visits, personal interviews, and document searches bearing upon this problem as exemplified by Nepal's ongoing Maoist insurgency. Cases of insurgents usurping full control of several protect…