Sony Baral

Biographic Data

ID6705591
NAMESony Baral
GIVEN NAMESSony
FAMILY NAMEBaral
SIGNATUREBARAL S
AFFILIATIONSTribhuvan University
ORCID0000-0002-5230-698X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Pathways to community resilience

    Open AccessSony Baral, Samrat Subedi et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2026

  • What matters for wellbeing outcomes of community-based forest restoration? Insights from Nepal’s community forestry

    Open AccessMahendra Singh Thapa, Sony Baral et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2026

    Nepal’s community forestry is a successful community-based forest management model for restoring degraded forests and for human wellbeing. While large-scale, top-down restoration projects that overlook local needs often run the risk of limited local benefits, locally led Community-Based Forest Restoration (CBFR) can lead to positive ecological and wellbeing outcomes. Taking the case of Nepal’s community forestry, this study explores the pathways …

  • The economics of forest restoration

    Open AccessSony Baral, Santosh Paudel et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2025

    Explore the cost and benefits of restoration, comparing with leasehold forests (intervention) and control forests (non-intervention). • Forest product remains the main source of benefits for both leasehold and control forests whereas labour cost is the main expense. • Benefit outweighs the costs in both leasehold and control forests; however, leasehold forests prove to be more beneficial for their users compared to control forests. • Leasehold fo…

  • Forest restoration efficiency

    Open AccessSony Baral, Saurav Lamichhane et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2025

    Community-based forest management under formal collective arrangements is increasingly recognized as a strategy for landscape restoration worldwide. In Nepal, the leasehold forestry program, one collective management approach, is regarded as a pro-poor global model for forest restoration. However, its impact on the livelihoods of households with varying socio-economic characteristics remains poorly understood, particularly in comparison to indivi…

  • Exploring the implications of selective harvesting for forest dynamics

    Open AccessSony Baral, Mathias Neumann et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2025

    This research investigates the sustainability of the implemented selection system at the stand level by analyzing changes in forest stand conditions over a 17-year period. • The basal area of the forest stands increased significantly per hectare over the two decades from 2005 to 2022. • There was a noticeable decrease in the number of small-sized trees and only a marginal increase in the number of older trees, resulting in an altered stand struct…

  • Resilience pathways through community- based forest management for navigating the triple planetary crisis

    Open AccessSony Baral, Samrat Subedi et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2025

    CBFM supports social, economic, ecological and disaster resilience through many pathways. • This is important in Asia and Africa, where communities face acute climate and environmental vulnerabilities. • Social capital, local knowledge, and institutional flexibility are key drivers of resilience under CBFM. • Community-led efforts in climate action remain under recognized in global environmental policies. • Adaptive, inclusive governance is essen…

  • Stakeholder perspectives on the effectiveness of governance in red panda conservation programmes in Nepal

    Open AccessAnita Shrestha, Sikha Karki et al.ARTICLEEcosystems and People2022

    This paper investigates the views of multi-stakeholders on the governance quality of existing forest management strategies for red panda (Ailurus fulgens) protection in Nepal, focusing on forest governance in general, red panda conservation programmes and natural habitat protection in particular. The study deployed two surveys in August and September 2020. The first survey was conducted online for the stakeholders with internet access; for those …

  • Using MCA tools for evaluating community-managed forests from a green economy perspective

    Sony Baral, Chiranjeewee Khadka et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

    Nepal is in the process of formulating its forest policies at the provincial level . Various community-managed forests have been designed in the past by the Nepal government to decentralize the forest for its sustainable management practice. This study facilitates the process of identifying appropriate forest management options in two of the provinces, namely Provinces Three and Gandaki. Four forest management options – passive, active, scientifi…

  • Investments in different taxonomies of goods

    Open AccessSony Baral, Bir Bahadur Khanal Chhetri et al.ARTICLEForest Policy and Economics2018References: 11