Research output per year
Research output per year
Associate Professor, MS SUNY, ESF; MS/PhD Auburn University
The University of Western Australia (M089), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
The University of Western Australia (M578), 35 Stirling Highway,
6009 Perth
Australia
Accepting PhD and other Higher Degree by Research Students. View current PhD/HDR research project opportunities at https://researchdegrees.uwa.edu.au/projects
Being grown up in a Nepalese village, I have experienced closely the role of forests on subsistence economy, which partly led me to pursue undergraduate study in Forestry Sciences from Tribhuwan University (Institute of Forestry) in Nepal. Upon completion of BSc in 1994, I initially worked as an Agro-ecological Research Site Coordinator at Lumle Agricultural Research Centre, a centre funded by the then ODA of the British Government, for 3 years (1995-1998) and later worked with the Government of Nepal (Department of Forests) as a Forester for 3 years (1998-2001). The Fulbright Scholarship in 2001 took me to the State University of New York, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry to pursue Master’s degree in Forest Resources Management. As a part of Master’s thesis I conducted a research to examine the impacts of Community Forestry on forest products supply and environmental outcomes among selected community forests in Nepal. A PhD research assistantship offer from Auburn University to work on ‘human dimensions of species fragility’ took me to Auburn in 2003 for an Applied Economics PhD, which I completed in 2007. With the change in focus from forest resource management to applied economics, I studied economics and statistics while pursuing PhD that eventually led me to earn MS in Economics and MS in Probability and Statistics degrees. In my PhD research, I analysed socio-economic determinants of threatened species among countries using spatial econometric techniques. Then prior to joining UWA in 2009, I spent 2 years at Auburn as a Postdoctoral Fellow working on an urban forestry project that examined the economic impact of tree shade on energy consumption in urban homes.
Conservation and development
Ecotourism and cultural tourism
Proected area management
Land degradation and restoration
Soil conservation and watershed management
Effectivenss of land degradation responses
Economics of biodiversity conservation
Biodiversity offsets
Payment for ecosystem services
Valuation of threatened species
Valuation of urban greenery
Forest economics and policy
9) 2022 PI "The impacts of commodity price increase on household welfare: The case of South Sulawesi, Indonesia" with Anas Iswanto Anwar, Universitas Hasunuddin; DFAT, Australia Indonesia Centre, PAIR: Partnership for Australia-Indonesia Research, AICPAIRTWP16 (AUD 40,720)
8) 2020 PI “Impact Evaluation of Protected Area Management Policy on Household Welfare in Nepal” with Yoko Saito and Takumi Kondo, Hokkaido University; KAKENHI – Grants in Aid Program of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS), (JY 4,920,000 = ~AU$64K)
7) 2019 CI “Essays on the Economics of Soil Quality in Pakistan’s Punjab: Productive Efficiency, Adoption (or dis-adoption) and Willingness to Pay for Land Restoration Schemes” with Amin Mugera and Asjad Tariq Sheikh; International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington D.C., USA US$42,757 (AU$63,608)
6) 2019 CI “Project 6.6 - Key factors for effective partner integration and governance for threatened species recovery” with Stephen Garnett (CDU), Simon Nally (Department of Environment), John Woinarski (CDU), Rachel Morgain (ANU); National Environmental Science Program, Threatened Species Recovery Hub, Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government, AU$130,000 NESP (AU$44,000 In-kind), 2019-2020.
5) 2015 CI “Threatened Species Recovery Hub” with David Pannell, Richard Hobbs and Nicola Mitchell, University of Queensland ex-National Environmental Science Program NESP, Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government, AU$1,508,010.00, 2015-2020.
4) 2015 [Co-Project Leader] of “Project 6.1 Quantifying benefits and costs of threatened-species management in rural and regional economies”, with David Pannell, Kerstin Zander (CDU) and Stephen Garnett (CDU); National Environmental Science Program, Threatened Species Recovery Hub, Department of the Environment and Energy, Australian Government, AU$503,000 (AU$826,048 In-kind), 2015-2020.
3) 2013 PI ‘Forests, Ecosystem Services and Communities: Lessons from Nepal Himalaya’, UWA Research Collaboration Award, AU$ 11,583 (with R. Marchant of York, S. Sallu of Leeds).
2) 2012-2013 CI ‘Resilient pasts and sustainable futures? The social-ecological dynamics of East African landscapes in temporal, spatial and social perspectives’, World Universities Network Development Fund, £20K (with R. Marchant of York, S. Sallu of Leeds and Petra Tschakert of Penn State).
1) 2011-2012 PI ‘The value of urban trees in the Perth metropolitan area: a hedonic analysis of home sale prices, UWA Research Development Award, AU$ 24,178 (with M. Polyakov and R. Sadler).
IPBES Engagement:
2018-2022: Lead Author, Values Assessment
2015-2018: Co-ordinating Lead Author, Thematic Assessment of Land
Degradation and Restoration
2015-2018: Lead Author, Regional Assessment of Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Services in Asia-Pacific
2014-2017: Expert, Conceptualization of value and developing
methodological guideline and scoping report for values assessment.
08/2008-present: Affiliate Researcher, Ecosystem Dynamics and Global Ecology Lab, Auburn University, USA
08/2007-06/2009: Postdoctoral Fellow, Auburn University, USA
08/2003-07/2007: Graduate Research Assistant, Auburn University, USA
08/1998-07/2001: Forest Officer, Department of Forests, Nepal
08/1995-07/1998: Agro-ecological Research Site Co-ordinator, Lumle Agricultural Research Centre, Nepal
01/1989-07/1991: Forest Ranger, Lumle Agricultural Research Centre, Nepal
ECON5001 Economic Development in Theory and Practice
ECON4410 Environmental and Resource Economics
SCIE3366 Project and Risk Management
ECON2224 Environmental Economics 2
Natural resource economics
Environmental economics
Application of economic valuation techniques (hedonic pricing)
Forest policy and management
Urban and community forestry
Payment for ecosystem services
Ecotourism and protected area management
Biodiversity conservation
Valuation of threatened species
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Applied Economics (Forestry), PhD, Auburn University
15 Aug 2003 → 4 Aug 2007
Award Date: 4 Aug 2007
Economics, MS, Auburn University
15 Aug 2003 → 11 Dec 2006
Award Date: 11 Dec 2006
Probability and Statistics, MS, Auburn University
15 Aug 2003 → 11 May 2006
Award Date: 11 May 2006
Forest Resources Management, MS, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
16 Aug 2001 → 31 Jul 2003
Award Date: 3 Aug 2003
Forestry Sciences, BSc, Tribhuvan University
1 Dec 1991 → 31 Dec 1994
Award Date: 18 Apr 1995
Visiting Professor, Hokkaido University
1 Apr 2018 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Hooper, P. (Creator), Edwards, N. (Data Manager), Burton, M. (Contributor) & Pandit, R. (Contributor), The University of Western Australia, 2021
Dataset
Mukherjee, N. (Investigator 01), Rai, R. K. (Investigator 02) & Pandit, R. (Investigator 03)
1/04/25 → 31/03/26
Project: Research
Manero, A. (Investigator 01), Pandit, R. (Investigator 03), Dempster, F. (Investigator 04), Kragt, M. (Investigator 05), Picton-Warlow, T. (Investigator 06) & Lowe, L. (Investigator 07)
1/02/24 → 30/06/25
Project: Research
Pandit, R. (Investigator 01), Anwar, A. I. (Investigator 02) & Nugraha, R. N. P. (Investigator 03)
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australia)
15/09/22 → 15/12/22
Project: Research
Pandit, R. (Investigator 01), Mugera, A. (Investigator 02) & Sheikh, A. (Investigator 03)
International Food Policy Research Institute, Pakistan
1/05/19 → 31/12/20
Project: Research
Tschakert, P. (Investigator 01), Pannell, D. (Investigator 02), Woodward, A. (Investigator 03), Sallu, S. (Investigator 04), Mumuni, A. (Investigator 05), New, M. (Investigator 06), Kragt, M. (Investigator 07), Pandit, R. (Investigator 08), Sabharwal, A. (Investigator 09), Lawrence, C. (Investigator 10) & Prout Quicke, S. (Investigator 11)
Worldwide Universities Network (WUN)
1/01/16 → 31/12/17
Project: Research
Pandit, R. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Highly Cited Researcher
Pandit, R. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Fellowship
Pandit, R. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Award