Hemant Ojha
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3439331 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Hemant Ojha |
| NOMBRES | Hemant |
| APELLIDO | Ojha |
| FIRMA | OJHA H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Canberra |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2654-4092 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 415 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Reutilisation of abandoned croplands in the hill region of Nepal
The history of cropland abandonment in Nepal is relatively brief compared to the global context, but recent studies indicate that it is occurring at a significant rate and is expected to increase further. Among various drivers, policy and regulatory factors significantly influence this land use change, interacting with local contexts to shape reutilisation decisions and the effectiveness of policy implementation. Based on an integrated qualitativ…
Climate Risks to Water Security
Open Science for Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals
Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is increasingly challenging due to widening inequality in access to scientific and technological knowledge and resources. With science remaining too discipline based, and policymakers too often science averse, there is a need for greater understanding of the opportunities and challenges of open science for science practitioners, policy makers and communities. Acknowledging that open scien…
Transforming environmental governance
Over the past decade, widespread concern has emerged over how environmental governance can be transformed to avoid impending catastrophes such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and livelihood insecurity. A variety of approaches have emerged, focusing on either politics, technological breakthrough, social movements, or macro-economic processes as the main drivers of change. In contrast, this paper presents theoretical insights about how system…
Community entrepreneurship
Climate change and equitable urban water management
Anthropogenic climate change is creating numerous challenges for rapidly urbanising countries. Foremost among these challenges is securing potable water for the urban population, while at times, mitigating flood risks. This article presents research on urban water issues in the rapidly growing city of Dhulikhel in Nepal within a global purview of climate change processes and impacts on urban water. The vulnerabilities to climate change are extrem…
Transformation as system innovation
Studies of sustainability transitions and transformational change are common in energy and transport sectors. However, there is limited research on how these transformational change processes play out in the natural resources sector, particularly in developing economies. This paper seeks to address this gap, with a case study of the community forestry system in Nepal that has, over the last four decades, reversed Himalayan land degradation and co…
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
State-community relations and deliberative politics within federal forest governance in Nepal
Despite widespread participatory governance reforms in the forest sector in Nepal, how forest administration can be re-organised at multiple levels to enable community based forest management remains unexplored. Forest governance reforms in Nepal have involved numerous forms of collaboration and contestation between the state agencies and community-based forest stakeholders in the rapidly evolving federalist political context. Analysing an empiri…
To what extent is Nepal’s community forestry contributing to the sustainable development goals? An institutional interaction perspective
After the introduction of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, existing development institutions are being assessed for their roles in achieving SDGs. In this context, we aim to assess how and to what extent Nepal’s community forestry (CF) is contributing to achieve the SDGs. Using an institutional interaction perspective, we conducted policy analysis, literature review and expert consultation. The analysis was guided by six analytical q…
Building an Engaged Himalayan Sustainability Science
Improving science-policy interface
Rescuing forests from the carbon trap
The Material Politics of Citizenship
Examining the boundaries of state–society–citizen–environment after the federal restructuring in Nepal, we ask how do people claim authority or citizenship rights? We theorise state power through the socio-environmental state framework as a set of socio-natural relations in the making, formed by struggles over authority, recognition and environment. Using qualitative data from Barpak, the epicentre of the 2015 earthquake, we capture the politics …
A political ecology of water and small-town urbanisation across the lower Himalayas
Shifting regimes of management and uses of forests
At a time when many developing countries are preparing to implement REDD+, there is debate on the possible implications for existing community forestry (CF) governance. Drawing on a REDD+ pilot undertaken in Nepal, this paper seeks to investigate how REDD+ has been downscaled into the community forestry context and with what implications for CF governance. The analysis is guided by three research questions: how are the objectives and discourses u…
Community institutions, social marginalization and the adaptive capacity
Fragmented Public Authority and State Un/making in the 'New' Republic of Nepal
Questions of state formation and public authority have been at the top of the development and political agenda in Nepal since 2006. The post-2006 so-called 'political transition' has been characterized by rising ethnic tensions, violence, strikes, and a bewildering kaleidoscope of leaders gaining political leverage, only to be marginalized again. In 2015, the Constitution was finally adopted following the earthquakes and amid violent protests fro…
Agricultural innovation and adaptation to climate change
Agricultural land underutilisation in the hills of Nepal
Policy without politics
As developing countries around the world formulate policies to address climate change, concerns remain as to whether the voices of those most exposed to climate risk are represented in those policies. Developing countries face significant challenges for contextualizing global-scale scientific research into national political dynamics and downscaling global frameworks to sub-national levels, where the most affected are presumed to live. This artic…
Can Evidence and Voice Influence Policy? A Critical Assessment of Nepal's Forestry Sector Strategy, 2014
This article examines Nepal's recently prepared Forestry Sector Strategy (FSS) (as of 2014) in terms of the use of scientific evidence and the quality of stakeholder participation. By reviewing the content and analyzing the context of its development during 2012–2014, we found that the transitional politics and overt influence of international development agencies dominated the process and content of the FSS. Although the FSS was developed throug…
Social production of vulnerability to climate change in the rural middle hills of Nepal
Delocalizing Communities
Can authority change through deliberative politics
Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions inadvertently reinforce, redistribute or create new sources of vulnerability. Four mechanisms drive these maladaptive outcomes: (i) shallow understanding of the vulnerability context; (ii) inequitable stakeholder participation in both design and implementation; (iii…
Rethinking Power and Authority
Recent work on authority, power and the state has opened up important avenues of inquiry into the practices and contexts through which power is exercised. Why certain forms of authority emerge as more durable and legitimate than others remains a challenge, however. In this article we bring together two bodies of thought to engage this issue, feminist theories of power and subjectivity and Bourdieu's ideas of symbolic violence, in order to explore…
Delocalizing Communities
Agricultural land underutilisation in the hills of Nepal
Fragmented Public Authority and State Un/making in the 'New' Republic of Nepal
Questions of state formation and public authority have been at the top of the development and political agenda in Nepal since 2006. The post-2006 so-called 'political transition' has been characterized by rising ethnic tensions, violence, strikes, and a bewildering kaleidoscope of leaders gaining political leverage, only to be marginalized again. In 2015, the Constitution was finally adopted following the earthquakes and amid violent protests fro…
Deliberation or symbolic violence? The governance of community forestry in Nepal
Can authority change through deliberative politics
Techno-bureaucratic Doxa and Challenges for Deliberative Governance
Despite repeated pleas for participatory and deliberative governance of environmental resources, there is still a predominance of technocratic values in environmental decision-making. This is especially true in the context of forest management in the Global South where centralised and technically-oriented colonial approaches of the past continue to be reproduced and exclude affected people to have their say and share in forest related decision-ma…
Rescuing forests from the carbon trap
Social production of vulnerability to climate change in the rural middle hills of Nepal
Improving science-policy interface
Can Evidence and Voice Influence Policy? A Critical Assessment of Nepal's Forestry Sector Strategy, 2014
This article examines Nepal's recently prepared Forestry Sector Strategy (FSS) (as of 2014) in terms of the use of scientific evidence and the quality of stakeholder participation. By reviewing the content and analyzing the context of its development during 2012–2014, we found that the transitional politics and overt influence of international development agencies dominated the process and content of the FSS. Although the FSS was developed throug…
Shifting regimes of management and uses of forests
At a time when many developing countries are preparing to implement REDD+, there is debate on the possible implications for existing community forestry (CF) governance. Drawing on a REDD+ pilot undertaken in Nepal, this paper seeks to investigate how REDD+ has been downscaled into the community forestry context and with what implications for CF governance. The analysis is guided by three research questions: how are the objectives and discourses u…
Transforming environmental governance
Over the past decade, widespread concern has emerged over how environmental governance can be transformed to avoid impending catastrophes such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and livelihood insecurity. A variety of approaches have emerged, focusing on either politics, technological breakthrough, social movements, or macro-economic processes as the main drivers of change. In contrast, this paper presents theoretical insights about how system…
Transformation as system innovation
Studies of sustainability transitions and transformational change are common in energy and transport sectors. However, there is limited research on how these transformational change processes play out in the natural resources sector, particularly in developing economies. This paper seeks to address this gap, with a case study of the community forestry system in Nepal that has, over the last four decades, reversed Himalayan land degradation and co…
A political ecology of water and small-town urbanisation across the lower Himalayas
The Material Politics of Citizenship
Examining the boundaries of state–society–citizen–environment after the federal restructuring in Nepal, we ask how do people claim authority or citizenship rights? We theorise state power through the socio-environmental state framework as a set of socio-natural relations in the making, formed by struggles over authority, recognition and environment. Using qualitative data from Barpak, the epicentre of the 2015 earthquake, we capture the politics …
Community institutions, social marginalization and the adaptive capacity
Counteracting hegemonic powers in the policy process
Confronting hegemonic power in the policy process remains a formidable challenge. Critical inquiry and civic resistance have been seen as two possible solutions to address this challenge. However, how and to what extent critical inquiry tackles this challenge is rarely explored. This article outlines a Critical Action Research (CAR) approach and then discusses how this approach was put into practice in Nepal’s forest policy processes during 2000–…
Understanding development through the language of Habermas and Bourdieu
Development approaches have dramatically shifted from the technology transfer models of the 1950s to empowerment models initiated in the late 1990s. This paper seeks to establish that, despite a growing appreciation of 'political' approaches to development, the actual ways in which development projects are designed and implemented constrain genuine deliberations through which poorer and more disadvantaged people could have taken greater control o…
Techno-bureaucratic Doxa and Challenges for Deliberative Governance
Despite repeated pleas for participatory and deliberative governance of environmental resources, there is still a predominance of technocratic values in environmental decision-making. This is especially true in the context of forest management in the Global South where centralised and technically-oriented colonial approaches of the past continue to be reproduced and exclude affected people to have their say and share in forest related decision-ma…
Deliberation or symbolic violence? The governance of community forestry in Nepal
Social safeguards and co-benefits in Redd
Counteracting hegemonic powers in the policy process
Confronting hegemonic power in the policy process remains a formidable challenge. Critical inquiry and civic resistance have been seen as two possible solutions to address this challenge. However, how and to what extent critical inquiry tackles this challenge is rarely explored. This article outlines a Critical Action Research (CAR) approach and then discusses how this approach was put into practice in Nepal’s forest policy processes during 2000–…
Rethinking Power and Authority
Recent work on authority, power and the state has opened up important avenues of inquiry into the practices and contexts through which power is exercised. Why certain forms of authority emerge as more durable and legitimate than others remains a challenge, however. In this article we bring together two bodies of thought to engage this issue, feminist theories of power and subjectivity and Bourdieu's ideas of symbolic violence, in order to explore…
Can authority change through deliberative politics
Policy without politics
As developing countries around the world formulate policies to address climate change, concerns remain as to whether the voices of those most exposed to climate risk are represented in those policies. Developing countries face significant challenges for contextualizing global-scale scientific research into national political dynamics and downscaling global frameworks to sub-national levels, where the most affected are presumed to live. This artic…
Can Evidence and Voice Influence Policy? A Critical Assessment of Nepal's Forestry Sector Strategy, 2014
This article examines Nepal's recently prepared Forestry Sector Strategy (FSS) (as of 2014) in terms of the use of scientific evidence and the quality of stakeholder participation. By reviewing the content and analyzing the context of its development during 2012–2014, we found that the transitional politics and overt influence of international development agencies dominated the process and content of the FSS. Although the FSS was developed throug…
Social production of vulnerability to climate change in the rural middle hills of Nepal
Delocalizing Communities
Agricultural innovation and adaptation to climate change
Agricultural land underutilisation in the hills of Nepal
Shifting regimes of management and uses of forests
At a time when many developing countries are preparing to implement REDD+, there is debate on the possible implications for existing community forestry (CF) governance. Drawing on a REDD+ pilot undertaken in Nepal, this paper seeks to investigate how REDD+ has been downscaled into the community forestry context and with what implications for CF governance. The analysis is guided by three research questions: how are the objectives and discourses u…
Community institutions, social marginalization and the adaptive capacity
Fragmented Public Authority and State Un/making in the 'New' Republic of Nepal
Questions of state formation and public authority have been at the top of the development and political agenda in Nepal since 2006. The post-2006 so-called 'political transition' has been characterized by rising ethnic tensions, violence, strikes, and a bewildering kaleidoscope of leaders gaining political leverage, only to be marginalized again. In 2015, the Constitution was finally adopted following the earthquakes and amid violent protests fro…
Improving science-policy interface
Rescuing forests from the carbon trap
The Material Politics of Citizenship
Examining the boundaries of state–society–citizen–environment after the federal restructuring in Nepal, we ask how do people claim authority or citizenship rights? We theorise state power through the socio-environmental state framework as a set of socio-natural relations in the making, formed by struggles over authority, recognition and environment. Using qualitative data from Barpak, the epicentre of the 2015 earthquake, we capture the politics …
A political ecology of water and small-town urbanisation across the lower Himalayas
State-community relations and deliberative politics within federal forest governance in Nepal
Despite widespread participatory governance reforms in the forest sector in Nepal, how forest administration can be re-organised at multiple levels to enable community based forest management remains unexplored. Forest governance reforms in Nepal have involved numerous forms of collaboration and contestation between the state agencies and community-based forest stakeholders in the rapidly evolving federalist political context. Analysing an empiri…
To what extent is Nepal’s community forestry contributing to the sustainable development goals? An institutional interaction perspective
After the introduction of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, existing development institutions are being assessed for their roles in achieving SDGs. In this context, we aim to assess how and to what extent Nepal’s community forestry (CF) is contributing to achieve the SDGs. Using an institutional interaction perspective, we conducted policy analysis, literature review and expert consultation. The analysis was guided by six analytical q…
Building an Engaged Himalayan Sustainability Science
Climate change and equitable urban water management
Anthropogenic climate change is creating numerous challenges for rapidly urbanising countries. Foremost among these challenges is securing potable water for the urban population, while at times, mitigating flood risks. This article presents research on urban water issues in the rapidly growing city of Dhulikhel in Nepal within a global purview of climate change processes and impacts on urban water. The vulnerabilities to climate change are extrem…
Transformation as system innovation
Studies of sustainability transitions and transformational change are common in energy and transport sectors. However, there is limited research on how these transformational change processes play out in the natural resources sector, particularly in developing economies. This paper seeks to address this gap, with a case study of the community forestry system in Nepal that has, over the last four decades, reversed Himalayan land degradation and co…
Political science (25 obras) · Economics (22 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (18 obras) · Geography (17 obras) · Politics (16 obras) · Business (15 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Corporate governance (14 obras) · Environmental resource management (13 obras) · Economic growth (12 obras)