EV1-124,
ext.
41239
snepal@uwaterloo.ca
Dr. Nepal is the current President of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG), and has been a Visiting Fellow (University of Otago, New Zealand, 2017), and Visiting Professor and Senior International Scientist (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 2012). He is the recipient of the Roy Wolfe Award for outstanding contributions to tourism and recreation studies (Association of American Geographers, 2012). He has consulted for the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF, Gland) and has lent his expertise to local governments in Nepal, India, China, South Korea, Austria and Canada. He has taught previously at Texas A&M University (2004-2010) and University of Northern British Columbia (2000-2004). He has a PhD from University of Bern (Switzerland), and MSc. from Asian Institute of Technology (Thailand).
Key
Areas
of
Graduate
Supervision
Tourism,
wildlife
conservation/local
communities
interface,
mountain
environments.
Recent
Courses
Taught
GEOG
233:
Geography
of
Tourism
GEOG
323:
Tourism
Impacts
GEOG
423:
Sustainable
Tourism
Research
Interests
Professor
Nepal’s
current
research
is
focused
on
sustainable
tourism,
and
wildlife-human
conflicts
in
protected
areas.
His
research
is
international
in
scope,
based
on
fieldwork
conducted
in
Nepal,
Canada,
Thailand,
USA
and
Switzerland.
He
has
supervised
graduate
student
research
in
Nepal,
Bhutan,
Taiwan,
Thailand,
China,
India,
Jordan,
the
Bahamas,
Trinidad
and
Tobago,
Canada,
and
the
USA.
He
is
the
author
of
four
books,
132
scientific
papers,
and
has
given
more
than
100
conference
papers
and
several
keynote
addresses.
His
research
papers
have
been
published
in
prestigious
international
journals
including
Ambio,
Journal
of
Environmental
Management,
Environmental
Conservation,
Environmental
Management,
Annals
of
Tourism
Research,
and
Tourism
Management,
among
others.
He
has
co-edited
a
widely
acclaimed
book
on
Political
Ecology
and
Tourism
(Routledge,
2016).
Recent Publications
- Nepal, R. & Nepal, S.K. (2019). Managing overtourism through economic taxation: Policy lessons from five countries. Tourism Geographies. DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1669070.
- Verkoeyen, S. & Nepal, S.K. (2019). Threat and coping appraisal as mediators of adaptation intentions in place attached and activity involved scuba divers. Leisure Sciences. DOI: 10.1080/01490400.2019.162529
- Karst, H. & Nepal, S.K. (2019). Conservation, Development, and Stakeholder Relations in Bhutanese Protected Area Management. International Journal of Sustainable Development and World Ecology 26(4): 290-301.
- Mu, Y., S. K. Nepal & Lai, P. (2019). Tourism and sacred landscape in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park, Nepal. Tourism Geographies 21(3): 442-459.
- Verkoeyen, S. & Nepal, S.K. (2019). Understanding scuba divers' response to coral bleaching: An application of Protection Motivation Theory. J. of Environmental Management 231: 869-877.
- Nepal, R., Irsyad, M.I. & Nepal, S.K. (2019). Tourist Arrivals, Energy Consumption and Pollutant Emissions in a Developing Economy-Implications for Sustainable Tourism. Tourism Management 72: 145-154.
- S.K. Nepal & Devkota, B. (2019). Post-disaster recovery, tourism and heritage conservation – Insights from the impacts of Nepal’s 2015 earthquake in Kathmandu Valley. In J. Saarinen & Gill, A (eds). Resilient Destinations: Governance Strategies of Tourism in the Transition towards Sustainability. London: Routledge, pp. 106-120.
- Nepal, S.K., Mu, Y. & Lai. P. (in press). The Beyul: Sherpa perspectives on landscapes characteristics and tourism development in Khumbu (Everest), Nepal. In Shinde, K.A. & Olsen, D.H. (eds) Religious Tourism and the Environment. CABI.