Reflection - Dr Bishnu Pariyar
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Dr Bishnu Pariyar, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Ecology, Law and Policy (CELP), White Rose Collaborations, University of Leeds. He is an environmental social scientist whose research interests are associated with natural resource management in developing countries. These include structural inequalities in the management of natural resources and how fairness can be achieved whilst making decisions on nature and the natural environment, particularly in access to and control over natural resources.
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