Anushiya Shrestha holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Wageningen University, The Netherlands and a Master’s in Environmental Science from Tribhuvan University. She has over a decade of research experience exploring various aspects of water (in)security issues in the context of intensifying urban expansion and changing climate. Her expertise lies in engaged research at the interface of policies and practices around changing (land and) water uses, access, rights and water-related conflicts and cooperation in the context of increasing urbanization and changing climate. She is particularly interested in understanding and unfolding policy-practice interface with a focus on changing use, access and governance of land and water resources and the implications these changes have for the marginalized communities in the context of changing climate and “inclusive” policy environment.
She is currently a Post-doc Researcher at SIAS and coordinates the ESRC-funded project “Transforming Political Capabilities for Equitable Resilience” led by University of York, UK. She is also one of the Editors of SIAS’s peer-reviewed journal called “New Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy”. More recently, she has also been looking into the research portfolio at SIAS as the Research Director, contributing in the proposal development, coordinating the Research Seminar entitled “Future Himalayan Research Seminar Series” and maintaining the quality of publications of SIAS.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Shrestha, A., S. Yakami, and D. Roth. (forthcoming). From royal canal to neglected canal? Changing use and management of a traditional canal irrigation system in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley. (accepted for publication In: Narain, V. and Roth, D. (Eds.) Water Security, Conflict and Cooperation in Peri-Urban South Asia. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. (in press).
- Neupane, K. R, A. Shrestha and Joshi, T. 2021. Upstream-downstream interdependence and water security in Dhulikhel. In: Katri, D. et al. (Eds). Dhulikhel’s Journey towards Water Security. Insights for Policy and Practice.
- Shrestha, A., D. Joshi, and D. Roth. 2020. The hydro-social dynamics of exclusion and water insecurity of Dalits in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: fluid yet unchanging. Contemporary South Asia: 1-16.
- Shrestha, A. 2019. Which community, whose resilience? Critical reflections on community resilience in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley. Critical Asian Studies: 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2019.1637270
- Shrestha, A. 2019. Groundwater policy and groundwater dependencies: Reflecting on the evolving socio-environmental dynamics in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley. New Angle: Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy 6 (1): 1-20.
- Shrestha, A., D. Roth, and D. Joshi. 2018. Socio-environmental dynamics and emerging groundwater dependencies in peri-urban Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. Water Alternatives 11 (3): 770-794.
- Shrestha, A., D. Roth, and D. Joshi. 2018. Flows of change: Dynamic water rights and water access in peri-urban Kathmandu. Ecology and Society 23 (2): 42.
- Shrestha, A. and R. Sada. 2016. Urbanization, climate change, and water (in) security in peri-urban areas of post-earthquake Kathmandu Valley, South Asian Water Studies, 5 (3): 17-32.
- Shrestha, A., R. Sada, and L. Melsen. 2014. Adapting to Peri-urban Water Insecurity Induced by Urbanization and Climate Change. Hydro Nepal: Journal of Water, Energy and Environment 14: 43-48.
- Sada, R., A. Shrestha, A. Shukla, and L. Melsen. 2014. People’s Experience and Facts of Changing Climate: Impacts and Responses. International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 6 (1): 47-62 emeraldinsight.com/1756-8692.htm
- Shrestha, A. and R. Sada. 2013. Evaluating the Changes in Climate and Its Implications on Peri-urban Agriculture. Merit Research Journal of Agricultural Science and Soil Science 1 (4): 48-57.
- Sada, R., A. Shrestha, K. Karki and A. Shukla. 2013. Groundwater Extraction: Implications on Local Water Security of Peri-urban Kathmandu. Nepal Journal of Science and Technology 14 (1): 121-128
