Prof. Sanjay K. Nepal

Sanjay K. Nepal is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Professor Nepal’s research centres on sustainable tourism in mountain regions and on the relationship between protected areas, wildlife conservation and local communities, with a particular focus on Nepal and the Himalaya. Recent work examines how social capital and tourism shape recovery after disasters. Professor Nepal has published widely in journals including Tourism Management, Tourism Geographies, Annals of Tourism Research and Environmental Management and co-edited Political Ecology and Tourism (Routledge, 2016) with Jarkko Saarinen. Before joining Waterloo Professor Nepal taught at Texas A&M University and the University of Northern British Columbia. In 2012 Professor Nepal received the Roy Wolfe Award of the Association of American Geographers for research on recreation and tourism. Professor Nepal holds a PhD from the University of Bern.