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
- Pain, A. et al. (2024) ‘Dancing with Uncertainty in the Himalayas in Times of Multiple Crises,’ Progress in Development Studies [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1177/14649934241303619
- Khatri, D. et al. (2024) ‘Examining socio‐ecological transitions and new human–wildlife relations in farming landscapes of the Nepal Himalaya,’ Journal of Agrarian Change, 24(4). https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.12594
- Poudel, D. P. et al. (2023) ‘De-agrarianisation and re-agrarianisation in patches: understanding microlevel land use change processes in Nepalese smallholder landscapes’, Forests, Trees and Livelihoods, 33(1), pp. 1–22. doi: 10.1080/14728028.2023.2283022
- Devkota, K., Khatri, D. and Loopmans, M. (2023) ‘Mobilizing rurality in peri-urban water contestation: A case from Dhulikhel, a lower Himalaya town of Nepal,’ BELGEO, 3. https://doi.org/10.4000/11vy6
- Khatri, D. et al. (2023) ‘Governing disaster risks locally: Insights from COVID-19 responses by local governments in a federalising Nepal,’ New Angle Nepal Journal of Social Science and Public Policy, 8(1), pp. 65–89. https://doi.org/10.53037/egjzph83
- Khatri, D., Marquardt, K., Fischer, H., Khatri, S., Singh, D., & Poudel, D. P. (2023). Why is farming important for rural livelihood security in the global south? COVID-19 and changing rural livelihoods in Nepal’s mid-hills [Original Research]. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2023.1143700
- Poudyal, B. H., Khatri, D. B., Paudel, D., Marquardt, K., & Khatri, S. (2023). Examining forest transition and collective action in Nepal’s community forestry. Land Use Policy, 134, 106872. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106872
- Khatri, D. B., Nightingale, A. J., Ojha, H., Maskey, G., & Lama ‘Tsumpa’, P. N. (2022). Multi-scale politics in climate change: the mismatch of authority and capability in federalizing Nepal. Climate policy, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2090891
- Khatri, D., Paudel, D., Pain, A., Marquardt, K. and Khatri, S. (2022). Reterritorialization of community forestry: Scientific forest management for commercialization in Nepal. Political Ecology, 29(1), 455–474.
- Ojha, H.; Khatri, D. Shrestha, K.K.; Adhikari, B.; and Pokharel, K. (2022). Investigating Institutional Limits to Climate Adaptation: A Case Study of Landslides in the Mountains of Nepal. New Angle: Nepalese Journal for Social Science and Public Policy, 7(1).
