I am Alisa Rai living in the mountainous country Nepal. I have completed my Master’s degree in Environmental Science in 2015 from Tribhuwan University Nepal. I always prefer to work for inaccessible, highly vulnerable mountain areas with indigenous and marginalized mountain communities. I have worked on livelihood and conservation related projects in the remote mountains of Nepal for about five years in the organization named the Mountain Institute. Currently I am working as Kathmandu based Senior Research Coordinator under the Nepal Critical Transition Project Phase II (2020-2025) funded by National Science Foundation under the leadership of Dr. Jeremy Spoon. The first phase (2016-2018) of this research work was also co-lead by me.
Selected Works:
- Spoon, Jeremy, Drew Gerkey, Ram B. Chherti, Alisa Rai, Umesh Basnet, and Chelsea E. Hunter. (2021) Understanding short-term household recoveries from the 2015 Nepal earthquakes: Lessons learned and recommendations. Progress in Disaster Science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100169
- Spoon, Jeremy, Chelsea Hunter, Ram B. Chhetri, Alisa Rai, Umesh Basnet, and Anudeep Dewan. (2020). Anatomy of Disaster Recoveries: Tangible and Intangible Short-Term Recovery Dynamics Following the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101879
- Spoon, Jeremy, Drew Gerkey, Ram B. Chhetri, Alisa Rai, and Umesh Basnet. (2020).Navigating Multidimensional Household Recoveries following the 2015 Nepal Earthquakes. World Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105041
- Pradhan, M.S., Rai-Paudyal, B., Rai, A., Bai, Y., Hengsuwan, P., Bun, P., and Yangzom, D. (2021). Exploring the role of gender equality in addressing climate change, biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration and food security. In: Thapa, B., Fu, C., and Zhang, L (Eds), Gender Equality and Sustainable Development in the Mountain Areas of Asia. LI-BIRD, Pokhara, Nepal.