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Milan Shrestha

Milan Shrestha

Senior Lecturer, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures

Milan.Shrestha@asu.edu

480-965-7175

School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
PO Box 875502
Tempe, AZ 85287-5502

Titles

  • Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Senior Lecturer, School of Sustainability, College of Global Futures
  • Affiliated Faculty, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures

Biography

Milan is a sustainability scientist with background in environmental anthropology, international development, and geospatial analysis. Milan’s expertise is socio-cultural dimensions of agriculture-food systems, common pool resources, and disaster risks. He also specializes in an interdisciplinary approach that combines social data with geospatial analysis and visualization techniques to reveal complex patterns of environmental change such as, land cover change, landscape fragmentation, deforestation, and urban growth. More recently, his research has focused on the agriculture-water-climate change nexus, particularly how people respond to climate change, glacial flood hazards and disaster risks, and how their sociocultural, economic and institutional factors might influence their social adaptation strategies.

Education

  • PhD, Anthropology, University of Georgia
  • MA, International Development, Clark University

Expertise

External Links

Journal Articles

2020

Byers, A. C., M. Bahadur Chand, J. Lala, M. Shrestha, E. Byers and T. Watanabe. 2020. Reconstructing the history of glacial lake outburst floods (GLOF) in the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, East Nepal: An interdisciplinary approach. Sustainability 12(13):Art. 5407. DOI: 10.3390/su12135407 . (link )

Byers, A. C., E. Byers, M. Shrestha, D. Thapa and B. Sharma. 2020. Impacts of Yartsa gunbu harvsting on alpine ecosystems in the Barun Valley, Makalu-Barun National Park, Nepal. Himalaya 39(2):Art. 8. (link )

Thompson, I., M. Shrestha, N. Chhetri and D. B. Agusdinata. 2020. An institutional analysis of glacial floods and disaster risk management in the Nepal Himalaya. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 47(Aug):101567. DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101567. (link )

2019

Sherpa, S. F., M. Shrestha, H. Eakin and C. G. Boone. 2019. Cryospheric hazards and risk perceptions in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal. Natural Hazards 96:607-626. DOI: 10.1007/s11069-018-3560-0. (link )

2017

Ishtiaque, A., M. Shrestha and N. Chhetri. 2017. Rapid urban growth in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Monitoring land use cover dynamics of a Himalayan city with Landsat imageries. Environments 4(4):Art. 72. DOI: 10.3390/environments4040072. (link )

2015

Chaudhary, P., N. Chhetri, B. Dorman, T. Gegg, R. B. Rana, M. Shrestha, K. Thapa, K. Lamsal and S. Thapa. 2015. Turning conflict into collaboration in managing commons: A case of Rupa Lake Watershed, Nepal. International Journal of the Commons 9(2):744-771. (link )

2014

Shrestha, M. 2014. The dynamics of mountain agriculture and land change in Lamjung District, Nepal. Global Environmental Research 18(2):151-169.

2013

Zhang, S., A. M. York, C. G. Boone and M. Shrestha. 2013. Methodological advances in the spatial analysis of land fragmentation. The Professional Geographer 65(3):512-526. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2012.700501. (link )

2012

Shrestha, M., A. M. York, C. G. Boone and S. Zhang. 2012. Land fragmentation due to rapid urbanization in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area: Analyzing the spatiotemporal patterns and drivers. Applied Geography 32(2):522-531. DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.04.004. (link )

2011

York, A. M., M. Shrestha, C. G. Boone, S. Zhang, J. Harrington, T. Prebyl, A. Swann, M. Agar, M. Antolin, B. Nolin, J. Wright and R. Skaggs. 2011. Land fragmentation under rapid urbanization: A cross-site analysis of southwestern cities. Urban Ecosystems 14(3):429-455. DOI: 10.1007/s11252-011-0157-8. (link )

Book Chapters

2022

Byers, A. C. and M. Shrestha. 2022. Conservation and restoration of alpine ecosystems in the Himalaya: New challenges for adventure tourism in the 21st century. In: Nyaupane, G. P. and D. J. Timothy eds., Tourism and Development in the Himalaya: Social, Environmental, and Economic Forces. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0367466275.

Posters

2018

Ishtiaque, A. and M. Shrestha. 2018. Urbanization in the Himalayas? Detecting loss of agricultural land due to urban growth in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Poster presented at the 20th Annual CAP LTER All Scienitists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 5, 2018, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

2017

Sherpa, S. F. and M. Shrestha. 2017. Glacial lake outburst flood risks in the Everest region, Nepal: Analyzing the governance and institutional factors of mitigation options. Poster presented at the 19th Annual Central-Arizona Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, 13 January 2017, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )

2010

Zhang, S., A. M. York, C. G. Boone and M. Shrestha. 2010. Land fragmentation under rapid urbanization: A cross-site comparative analysis. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Poster presented at the January 14, 2010 12th Annual Central Arizona-Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Poster Symposium, Global Institute of Sustainability.

2009

Shrestha, M., S. Zhang, A. M. York, C. G. Boone, J. Wright, J. Harrington, M. Antolin, B. Nolen, T. Prebyl, M. Agar and A. Swann. 2009. Socioecological gradients and land fragmentation: A cross-site comparative analysis. Estes Park, CO. Poster presented at 14-16 September 20009 LTER All Scientists Meeting, Integrating Science and Society in a World of Constant Change.

Zhang, S., M. Shrestha, A. M. York and C. G. Boone. 2009. Socioecological gradients and land fragmentation in Central Arizona-Phoenix. Estes Park, CO. Poster presented at 14-16 September 20009 LTER All Scientists Meeting, Integrating Science and Society in a World of Constant Change.

Presentations

2019

Shrestha, M. and A. C. Byers. 2019. Glacial floods, infrastructures, and sustainability in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park and buffer zone, Nepal. Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Apr 2019, Washington, DC.

Shrestha, M. and A. C. Byers. 2019. Socio-cryospheric systems of glacial floods and disaster risks in the Mt. Everest region, Nepal. Presentation at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Mar 2019, Portland, OR.

Shrestha, M., I. Thompson and A. C. Byers. 2019. Perceptions and governance of cryospheric hazards in the Mt. Everest region, Nepal. Presentation at the Workshop 2.4.E: Natural hazards’ risk governance under changing framework conditions, International Mountain Conference, Sept 2019, Innsbruck, Austria.

2014

Shrestha, M., N. Chhetri and P. Chaudhary. 2014. Long-term changes in livestock management and mountain agroecology in the Upper Gondaki River Basin. Presentation at the Mountain Observatories - A Global Fair and Workshop on Long-Term Observing Systems of Mountain Social-Ecological Systems, 16-19 July 2014, University of Nevada-Reno.

2010

Shrestha, M. A., A. M. York, S. Zhang and C. G. Boone. 2010. Rapid urbanization and land fragmentation in the US Southwest: A socio-ecological gradient analysis. Tempe, AZ. Presentation at the 15-19 October 2010 International Conference on Urbanization and Global Environmental Change -- The Global Land Project.

Zhang, S., A. M. York, C. G. Boone and M. Shrestha. 2010. Water provisioning as a driving force of land fragmentation in the metropolitan Phoenix area. Presented April 16, 2010 as part of an Interactive Short Paper Session at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington DC.

2009

Shrestha, M., A. M. York, C. G. Boone and S. Zhang. 2009. A cross-site comparative analysis of land fragmentation, Part 1 and Part 2. Estes Park, CO. Working group organizer report presented at 14-16 September 20009 LTER All Scientists Meeting, Integrating Science and Society in a World of Constant Change.