Ripu M. Kunwar

Mr. Ripu M. Kunwar
Cultural and Spatial Ecology
Department of Geosciences
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL 33486
United States of America

Mailing Address:
Cultural and Spatial Ecology
Department of Geosciences
Florida Atlantic University
624 NW 13th St, Apt 34
-33486 Boca Raton, Florida (FL)



Phone: +1 470 554 5646
E-mail: rkunwar(at)fau.edu


Additional functions:
Chaired a Panel Health and Nature, The Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya 2013. Kathmandu, Nepal: 21-22 July. http://soscbaha.org/about-conf/panelssessions/panel-page-2.html


Key Publications of Ripu M. Kunwar (up to ten) :
1. Medicinal plant dynamics in Indigenous medicines in Farwest Nepal. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2015.
2. Governance in Community Forestry in Nepal through Forest Certification. Internal Forestry Review Journal 2015.
3. Medicinal plants and ethnomedicine in peril. A case study from Nepal Himalaya. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine Journal 2014.
4. Local use, markets and management measures of medicinal plants in Western Nepal. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2013.
5. Underutilized plant species in Far West Nepal. Journal of Mountain Science 2012.
6. Traditional herbal medicine in far-west Nepal: a pharmacological appraisal. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2010.
7. Medicinal plants in far-west Nepal: indigenous uses and pharmacological validity. Medicinal and Aromatic Plant science and Biotechnology, Global Science Books, UK.
8. Indigenous use and ethnopharmacology of medicinal plants in Far West Nepal. Journal of Ethnobotany Research & Applications 2009.
9. Ethnobotany in the Nepal Himalaya: a review. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine 2008.
10. Good governance in natural resource management: a case study from Dolpa district, West Nepal. Banko Janakari Journal.


Specialties of Ripu M. Kunwar:
I am working on ethnobiology of Nepal Himalaya specializing on effects of climate change on medicinal plants, people and indigenous medicines of Nepal Himalaya.

Last update: 8/10/16
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