Milan Shrestha

Khadka, N., Liu, W., Shrestha, M., Watson, C. S., Acharya, S., Chen, X., & Gouli, M. R. (2025). Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Understanding Himalayan glacial lakes in a Climate Challenged World. Information Geography, 100002. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infgeo.2025.100002 

Khadka*, N., Chen, X., Shrestha, M., & Liu, W. (2024). Risk Perception and Vulnerability of Communities in Nepal to Transboundary Glacial Lake Outburst Floods from Tibet, China. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 107, 104476. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104476 

Byers, A. C., Shrestha, M., Zackary, A., Byers, E. A., Coburn, B., Watanabe, T., & Chand, M. B. (2024). The Changing Ecology of a High Himalayan Valley: Challenges to the Sustainable Development of the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, Eastern Nepal. Sustainability, 16(6), 2434.

Maharjan, A., McDowell, G., Pandey, A., Pasakhala, B., Shrestha, M., Wang, X. (2023). Cryospheric change, adaptation, and sustainable development in the mountain societies of the Hindu Kush Himalaya. In ICIMOD (P. Wester, S. Chaudhary, N. Chettri, M. Jackson, A. Maharjan, S. Nepal & J. F. Steiner [Eds.]), Water, ice, society, and ecosystems in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: An outlook (pp. 165–217). International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). DOI: https://doi.org/10.53055/ICIMOD.1033

Emmer, A., Allen, S. K., Carey, M., Frey, H., Huggel, C., Korup, O.,... Shrestha, M,... & Yde, J. C. (2022). Progress and challenges in glacial lake outburst flood research (2017–2021): a research community perspective. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 1-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-2022-143

Byers, A. C., D. H. Shugar, M. B. Chand, C. Portocarrero, M. Shrestha, D. R. Rounce, & T. Watanabe. 2022. Three Recent and Lesser-Known Glacier-Related Flood Mechanisms in High Mountain Environments. Mountain Research and Development, 42(2), A12-A22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-21-00045.1

Adhikari, J., M. Shrestha, & D. Paudel. 2021. Nepal’s growing dependency on food imports: A threat to national sovereignty and ways forward. Nepal Public Policy Review, 1, 68–86. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12345/nppr.1.12345

Byers, A. C., T. Gustafsson, M. Shrestha, N. Chhetri. 2020. A Sustainable Solid Waste Management Plan for Sagarmatha (Mt Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal. Mountain Research and Development, 40(3):A1-A9 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-20-00018.1

Byers, A. C, M. B. Chand, J. Lala, M. Shrestha, E. A. Byers, and T. Watanabe. 2020. Reconstructing the History of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF) in the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area, East Nepal: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Sustainability, 12(13), 5407; doi.org/10.3390/su12135407

Thompson, I., M. Shrestha, N. Chhetri, & D. B. Agusdinata. 2020. An institutional analysis of glacial floods and disaster risk management in the Nepal Himalaya. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 47: 101567. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2020.101567 

Byers, A.C., E. Byers, M. Shrestha, D. Thapa, & B. Sharma. 2020. Impacts of Yartsa Gunbu Harvesting on Alpine Ecosystems in the Barun Valley, Makalu-Barun National Park, Nepal. HIMALAYA, the Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies 39(2): 44-59

Sherpa, S., M. Shrestha, H. Eakin, H., & C. G. Boone. 2019. Cryospheric Hazards and Risks Perceptions in the Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone, Nepal. Natural Hazards. DOI:10.1007/s11069-018-3560-0

Ishtiaque, A., M. Shrestha, & N. Chhetri. 2017. Rapid Urban Growth in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: Monitoring Land Use Land Cover Dynamics of a Himalayan City with Landsat Imageries. Environments, 4(4), 72. DOI:10.3390/environments4040072

Chaudhary, P., N. B. Chhetri, B. Dorman, T. Gegg, R. B. Rana, M. Shrestha, K. Thapa, K. Lamsal and S. Thapa. (2015). Turning conflict into collaboration in managing commons: A case of Rupa Lake Watershed, Nepal. International Journal of the Commons 9(2):744-771.

Wagley, U. and M. Shrestha. (2015). Poverty in Nepal. In Encyclopedia of World Poverty 2nd Edition, edited by Mehmet Odekon. SAGE Reference

Shrestha, M. (2014). The Changing Dynamics of Mountain Agriculture and Land Use in Lamjung, Nepal. Global Environmental Research, 18: 173-182 

S. Zhang, A York, C. Boone, and M Shrestha. (2013). Methodological Advances in the Spatial Analysis of Land Fragmentation. Professional Geographer DOI:10.1080/00330124.2012.700501

Shrestha, M., A York, C. Boone, and S. Zhang. (2012). Land Fragmentation due to Rapid Urbanization in the Metropolitan Phoenix Area: Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Patterns and Drivers. Applied Geography, 32(2): 522-531. DOI:10.1016/j.apgeog.2011.04.004

York, A., M. Shrestha, C. Boone, S. Zhang. (2011). Land Fragmentation under Rapid Urbanization: A Cross-site Comparative Analysis. Urban Ecosystems, 14(3): 429–455