Lok Mani Sapkota, PhD student

Lok has a strong interest in community-based forest resources management. Before starting his PhD in Forest Ecosystems and Society, he spent over ten years in the Asia–Pacific region conducting research and implementing programs strengthening participatory forest resources management. His interests and engagements have a wide domain, including institutions and participation of local communities and stakeholders in forest fire management, forest landscape restoration, and community forest management. Lok completed a Masters of Science in Natural Resources Management from Asian Institute of Technology, where he studied how the fire environment and local communities’ response to fire are changing in Central Siwalik of Nepal and what factors cotribute to the collective actions in forest fire management. He has a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from Institute of Forestry (IOF), Tribhuvan University in Nepal. He worked for multiple national and international organizations in the Asia-Pacific region, such as the Department of Forest in Nepal, ECARDS-Nepal, and RECOFTC