Rajendra P. Shrestha

Rajendra P Shrestha received his PhD in natural resources management and currently is an Associate Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. His areas of research interests include land use and land cover change focusing on land change/degradation-human interface for policy support in the context of climate change. He also has interest in livelihood studies and food security in relation to land use. He has extensively published on these topics in southeast and south Asia. His research collaboration has been with several organizations, FAO, UNDP, UNEP, IUCN, WAC and the universities in the region. Previously, he has worked as lecturer and agriculture officer in Nepal. He was also a Senior Programme Officer at the United Nations Environment Programme, Bangkok, a Visiting Scientist at Nihon University of Japan, and Roskilde University of Denmark.

Publications

Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications
Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications
Yongyut Trisurat, Rajendra P. Shrestha, Rob Alkemade. © 2011. 512 pages.
How humans use terrestrial land affects the earth and all life forms on it. Biodiversity loss and climate change are consequences of the same inappropriate and careless uses of...
Linkage between Biodiversity, Land Use Informatics and Climate Change
Linkage between Biodiversity, Land Use Informatics and Climate Change
Yongyut Trisurat, Rajendra P. Shrestha, Rob Alkemade. © 2011. 22 pages.
Biodiversity is the variety and variability among living organisms and ecological complexes in which they occur, and it can be divided into three levels – gene, species and...
Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss in Southeast Asia
Land Degradation and Biodiversity Loss in Southeast Asia
Rajendra P. Shrestha. © 2011. 25 pages.
Land degradation and biodiversity loss are important global change issues because of their enormous effect on the functioning of ecosystem. Despite the fact that there have been...
Conclusion and Recommendations
Conclusion and Recommendations
Yongyut Trisurat, Rob Alkemade, Rajendra P. Shrestha. © 2011. 11 pages.
This chapter summarizes key findings of all the chapters contained in the book and presents analytical views on how modeling of land use and climate change and the consequent...