Dr. Sanjay K. Nepal Associate Professor Francis Hall 310 979-862-4080 sknepal@tamu.edu Education M.A., Tribhuvan University, Nepal, 1984 M.Sc., Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, 1991 Ph.D., University of Bern, Switzerland, 1999

Specialty
Tourism and change; environmental impacts; local communities and protected areas; mountain tourism; indigenous peoples.

Selected Awards
USDA-Foreign Agriculture Service, 2006-2008
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Canada 2002-2006
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada 2003-2006
Special University Scholarship, University of Western Ontario, Canada 1995-1996
Canadian International Development Agency Scholarship 1990-91, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand

Research Direction
Aspects of tourism and change in rural and remote regions; community-based conservation; protected areas, and indigenous and traditional peoples; mountain tourism and ecotourism; recreation ecology

Dr. Nepal is a team member of Sustainable Tourism Systems , a laboratory of the RPTS department. STS serves as an international center for excellence in educational training and research in sustainable development.

Vita

Texas A&M University - Department of Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences - Dr. Gary Ellis, Head
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