Rajesh Kumar Rai

Employment

• Tribhuvan University Professor
  2020 - Present
• Regional Community Forestry Training Centre Senior Program Officer
  2019 - 2020
• South Asian Network for Development Environment Economics Environmental Economist
  2014 - 2019

Education

• Deakin University PhD
  2010 - 2013
• University of Eastern Finland MSc in Forest Ecology and Management
  2006 - 2008

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (46)

• Stump Dimensions and Timber Loss in Harvested Sal Forests of Nepal
  Banko Janakari 2026 DOI: 10.3126/banko.v36i2.90916
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• Willingness to pay for conservation of the Endangered red panda Ailurus fulgens in eastern Nepal
  Oryx 2026 DOI: 10.1017/S0030605325101725
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• Regeneration dynamics in Sal (Shorea robusta) forests under the shelterwood system
  Forest Systems 2026 DOI: 10.5424/fs/2025342-20959
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• Management without consistency: How intermittent silvicultural practices drive plant invasions
  Trees, Forests and People 2025 DOI: 10.1016/j.tfp.2025.101052
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• Regeneration Patterns following Regeneration Felling in Sal (Shorea robusta Gaertn.f.) Forests Managed under the Shelterwood System
  Banko Janakari 2025 DOI: 10.3126/banko.v35i2.75312
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• SAFEGUARDING MOUNTAIN PASTORALISM THROUGH AN ALTERNATIVE INSURANCE MECHANISM
  Nomadic Peoples 2025 DOI: 10.3828/whpnp.63837646691067
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• Curbing the major and growing threats from invasive alien species is urgent and achievable
  Helen Elizabeth Roy, Aníbal Pauchard, Peter J. Stoett

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  Nature Ecology & Evolution 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02412-w
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• Herders’ Preferences for Maintaining Yak Herding in the Eastern Himalayas
  Rangeland Ecology & Management 2024 DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2024.01.009
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• Economics of Yak herding in the Kanchenjunga landscape of the Eastern Himalayas
  Pastoralism 2023 DOI: 10.1186/s13570-023-00276-6
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• Retailer's characteristics and compliance with the single-use plastic bag ban
  Sustainability Analytics and Modeling 2023 DOI: 10.1016/j.samod.2023.100019
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• Opportunity Costs of Forest Conservation in Nepal
  Rajesh K. Rai, Mani Nepal, Bhaskar Singh Karky +3 more
  Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2022 DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2022.857145
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• Designing a community-based insurance scheme to reduce human–wildlife conflict
  Environment, Development and Sustainability 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s10668-021-01652-1
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• Low-Cost Strategies to Improve Municipal Solid Waste Management in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Nepal
  Mani Nepal, Apsara Karki Nepal, Madan S. Khadayat +3 more
  Environmental and Resource Economics 2022 DOI: 10.1007/s10640-021-00640-3
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• Strategic Pathways to Scale up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights from Nepal’s Tarai
  Sustainability 2021 DOI: 10.3390/su13095237
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• Strategic Pathways to Scale Up Forest and Landscape Restoration: Insights From Nepal’s Terai
  2021 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202104.0261.v1
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• Cost-benefit analysis of flood early warning system in the Karnali River Basin of Nepal
  International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101534
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• Value of cleaner neighborhoods: Application of hedonic price model in low income context
  Mani Nepal, Rajesh K. Rai, Madan S. Khadayat +1 more
  World Development 2020 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.104965
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• Who Adopts Agroforestry in a Subsistence Economy?—Lessons from the Terai of Nepal
  Forests 2020 DOI: 10.3390/f11050565
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• Who adopts agroforestry in a subsistence economy?
  2020 DOI: 10.22541/au.158592481.10077299
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• Who Adopts Agroforestry in a Subsistence Economy?
  2020 DOI: 10.20944/preprints202003.0146.v1
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