I am an anthropologist currently working as Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Arizona State University’s Global Institute of Sustainability (GIOS). My current assignment is with the Central Arizona - Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research Project's Land-use Framentation Study, in which we seek to understand the impact of proximate causes, such as urban and population dynamics, water provisioning and annexation, on land-use fragmentations of the desert biome and its ecological services.
My current areas of research focus on the human dimensions of land-use and land-cover change (LULCC), climate change, vulnerability/resilience, agricultural sustainability, and urbanization. In recent years, I have studied how the shared cultural knowledge and rules shape agricultural land-use strategies and agro-biodiversity, and what are their relationships with the "exogenous forces," such as, market economy, institutions, deforestation, conflicts, and a broader scale land-cover change.
I recently completed a PhD degree from University of Georgia. In my dissertation research entitled “Smallholders, Mountain Agriculture and Land-cover Change in Lamjung, Nepal,” I analyzed the coupled human-environmental relationships in a mountain landscape through an interdisciplinary, multi-scalar analysis of smallholder agriculture and LULCC. The integration of ethnographic and survey data with remote sensing and GIS was the key component of the research.
My current areas of research focus on the human dimensions of land-use and land-cover change (LULCC), climate change, vulnerability/resilience, agricultural sustainability, and urbanization. In recent years, I have studied how the shared cultural knowledge and rules shape agricultural land-use strategies and agro-biodiversity, and what are their relationships with the "exogenous forces," such as, market economy, institutions, deforestation, conflicts, and a broader scale land-cover change.
I recently completed a PhD degree from University of Georgia. In my dissertation research entitled “Smallholders, Mountain Agriculture and Land-cover Change in Lamjung, Nepal,” I analyzed the coupled human-environmental relationships in a mountain landscape through an interdisciplinary, multi-scalar analysis of smallholder agriculture and LULCC. The integration of ethnographic and survey data with remote sensing and GIS was the key component of the research.
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