Netra Chhetri

Assistant Professor, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes

Ph.D. (Geography, minor in Demography) Pennsylvania State University
M.S. (Geography, minor in Demography) Pennsylvania State University
B.S. (Agriculture) Institute of Agriculture and Animal Sciences, Rampur, Chitwan, Nepal

Human-environment interaction, adaptation to climate variability and change, global and comparative knowledge production systems, science-policy interface, water resource management, land-use land cover change, decision-making under uncertainty, and sustainable sciences

2007 - Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Contributor to the Intergovernmental Panel and Climate Change

2007 - Peccei and Mikhalevich Award – (Finalist), Awarded in recognition of the understanding and advancement of scholarship on global problems by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis

2006 - Honors Disciplinary Faculty, Barrett, The Honors College, ASU

2006 - Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) Fellow, International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), Vienna, Austria - through U.S. National Academy of Sciences

2005 - Earth and Mineral Sciences Centennial Research Award, Penn State University for outstanding research

2005 - E. Willard Miller Award in Geography, 1st Place in Ph.D. level paper

Nyaupane, G. P., and N. Chhetri. 2009. Vulnerability of climate change on nature-based tourism in the Nepalese Himalaya. Tourism Geographies, 11: 95-119.

Chhetri, N. and W.E. Easterling. 2008. Climate change and food security in dryland region of the world. Annals of Arid Zone, 47: 1-12.

Chhetri, N. (Contributing Author). 2007. Chapter 5: Food, Fiber, Forestry, and Fisheries. In Working Group II Fourth Assessment Report "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability", eds. W. Easterling and P. Aggarwal, 273-313. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Howden, M., J. F. Soussana, F. N. Tubiello, N. Chhetri, M. Dunlop, and H. Meinke. 2007. Adapting Agriculture to Climate Change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 104:19691-19696.

Easterling, W. E., N. Chhetri, and X. Niu. 2003. Improving the Realism of Modeling Agronomic Adaptation to Climate Change: Simulating Techonological Substitution. Climatic Change, 60:149-173.