Research Institutes and Papers

• Nepal Study Centre at the University of New Mexico
  The Nepal Study Center (NSC) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) is dedicated to fostering intellectual collaboration and sharing knowledge with a dedicated focus and wider perspective on the socio-economic development and sustainability, health, technology transfer, and environmental issues of the Himalayan region and the countries in South Asia.
• Resources for the Future (RFF)
  

  A very good site with access to studies on bio-diversity conservation, natural resource management, non-market valuation, cost benefit analyses etc.
• International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
  

  The only regional institution that works on the Hindu Kush- Himalayan problems of economic development, environmental degradation and social change. Useful site to search for publication, research projects and job vacancies.
• SHODH: the Institute for Research and Development, Nagpur, India
  The Institute for research and development - SHODH started working informally from the year 1994, and was formally registered in 1997. The group of like-minded people founded SHODH to undertake research projects for studying socio-economic aspects of rural and tribal population, to study various aspects of environmental degradation and restoration of ecological balance, to undertake programs for all-round development of rural and tribal areas, to conduct training programs for teachers and students from such areas, to strive and help in efforts for emancipation of women, and child development.
• Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA)
  

  The Environmental Economics programme of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development was in 2001 converted to a centre in 2001 and is now known as the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA) located within the Department of Agricultural economics, Extension and Rural Development at the University of Pretoria.
• Bangladesh Institute for Development Studies(BIDS)
  A multi-disciplinary organization which conducts policy oriented research on development issues mainly in the context of Bangladesh. Useful site for identifying recent research papers on economics issues in Bangladesh.
• Centre for Social And Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE)
  This Centre's interdisciplinary program is based around a number of research areas such as climate change, conservation of biological diversity, institutional adaptation to environmental change, sustainable development, natural resource valuation and management, waste management and recycling, economic instruments and water/wetlands/ coastal zone management.
• Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM): European Network
  

  The principle aim of this institution is to promote interaction between academic, industrial and public spheres in order to comprehensively address concerns about economic development and environmental change. Downloadable papers available on corporate sustainability, climate change, indicators, natural resource management etc.
• IUCN Nepal
  IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Nepal began work in Nepal in the 1960s, assisting early government efforts to protect environmentally sensitive areas and wildlife. Nepal became a State Member of IUCN in 1973 with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) as the active link. In the 1980s, IUCN supported the Nepal government in formulating a National Conservation Strategy (NCS) to address the country's major environment and development issues.
• IUCN-Economics of Bio-diversity
  

  Contains information on bio-diversity economics, financing and business and policy.