Dil Khatri holds PhD in Rural Development from the Department of Urban and Rural Development at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala. He has MA in Development Studies from International Institute for Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague and B.Sc. in Forestry from Tribhuwan University in Nepal. His PhD thesis entitled ‘Climate and development at the third pole: dynamics of power and knowledge reshaping community forest governance in Nepal’ explores how climate agenda implies to the decentralized resource governance.
Dr. Khatri is the Executive Director and senior research fellow of SIAS and chief editor of the New Angle: Nepalese Journal of Social Sciences and Public Policy, the journal hosted by SIAS. Besides the role of ED, Dil is also involved in a number of research projects in SIAS on the issues related to climate change, mountain resilience, disaster risk management, and forest and land management issues with a number of Swedish, UK, Norwegian, US, and Australian Universities.
His broader research interest lies in environmental governance focusing on participatory forest management, ecosystem services (with a specific focus on carbon and water), and climate change adaptation. The geographical focus of his work has been on Nepalese Himalaya. Dil’s particular interest lies in understanding resource politics focusing on power, authority and access. Dil is contributing to science by publishing and reviewing papers in a wide range of international peer-review journals such as Forest Policy and Economics, Geoforum, Climate and Development, Human Ecology, Small Scale Forestry, Climate Change. He has also been engaged as editor of Journal of Forest and Livelihoods and number of other of other publications. His earlier work with ForestAction was related to policy-oriented research on forest and climate change-related issues. Before joining ForestAction in 2010, he had worked as a development practitioner on community forestry and rural livelihoods.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Khatri, D., Nightingale, A., Ojha, H., Maskey, G., and Norbu Lama ‘Tsumpa’, P. (under review in Climate Policy) Multi-scale policy politics: The mismatch of authority and capability in climate change policy reform in federalizing Nepal.
- Khatri, D., Paudel, D., Pain, A., Marquardt, K. and Khatri, S. (under review in Political Ecology) Reterritorialization of Community Forestry: Scientific Forest Management in the Terai and Chure Region of Nepal.
- Khatri, D., Neupane, K.R. and Devkota, K. (2021) (eds). Dhulikhel’s Journey towards Water Security: Insights from policy and practice. Southasia Institute of Advanced studies and Dhulikhel Muniipality, Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Gupta, D., Fischer, H., Shrestha, S., Shoaib Ali, S., Chhatre, A., Devkota, K., Khatri, D., Rana, P. (2021). Dark and bright spots in the shadow of the pandemic: Rural livelihoods, social vulnerability, and local governance in India and Nepal. World Development, 141, 105370.
- Eriksen, S., Schipper, E. L. F., Scoville-Simonds, M., Vincent, K., Adam, H. N., Brooks, N., Khatri, D. . . . West, J. J. (2021). Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance? World Development, 141, 105383.
- Pain, A., Marquardt, K. and Khatri, D. (2020) Secondary Forests and agrarian transitions: insights from Nepal and Peru. Human Ecology pp: 1-10.
- Marquardt, K., Pain, A., & Khatri, D. (2020). Re-reading Nepalese landscapes: labour, water, farming patches and trees. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 29(4), 238-259.
- Fleischman, , Basant, S., Chhatre, A., Coleman, E. A., Fischer, H. W., Gupta, D., Khatri, D Veldman, J. W. (2020). Pitfalls of Tree Planting Show Why We Need People-Centered Natural Climate Solutions. BioScience, 70(11), 947-950.
- Leder, S., Khatri, D. and Ojha, H., 2019. Water security and inclusive water governance in the Himalayas (editorial introduction). The New Angle: Nepal J. Soc. Sci. Public Policy, 5(1): 1-6.
- Devkota, K., Khatri, D. and Neupane, K.R., 2018. Water conflicts in urbanizing regions in the Himalaya: Case studies from Dhulikhel and Bidur in Nepal. The New Angles, 5.
- Khatri, D., Marquardt, K., Pain, A. & Ojha, H. 2018. Shifting regimes of management and uses of forests: What might REDD+ implementation mean for community forestry? Evidence from Nepal. Forest Policy and Economics (in press).
- Khatri, D., K. Shrestha, H. Ojha, G. Paudel, N. Paudel & A. Pain 2017. Reframing community forest governance for food security in Nepal. Environmental Conservation, 44(2): 174-182.
- Khatri, D., Pham, T.T., Di Gregorio, M., Karki, R., Paudel, N.S., Brockhaus, M. and Bhushal, R., 2016. REDD+ politics in the media: a case from Nepal. Climatic Change, 138(1-2): 309-323.
- Marquardt, K., Khatri, D. and Pain, A., 2016. REDD+, forest transition, agrarian change and ecosystem services in the hills of Nepal. Human Ecology, 44(2): 229-244.
