Education

Biography

Professor Medani P. Bhandari has been serving as a Professor of inter-disciplinary Department of Natural Resource & Environment / Sustainability Studies, at the Akamai University, USA and a visiting Professor at the Sumy State University (SSU), Ukraine. He holds M.A. Anthropology (Tribhuwan University, Nepal), M.Sc. Environmental System Monitoring and Analysis (ITC-The University of Twente, the Netherlands), M.A. Sustainable International Development (Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA), M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology (Syracuse University, NY, USA).

Prof. Bhandari has spent most of his career focusing on the sociological theories; conservation of nature and natural resources; environmental management; social innovation; developing along the way expertise in global and international environmental politics, environmental institutions and natural resources governance (e.g., forest governance from the grassroots to the national level with a special focus on participatory management), climate change policy and implementation, environmental justice, sustainable development; theory of natural resources governance; rural development; management of protected areas and forested landscapes and impact evaluation of rural livelihood; international organizations; public/ social policy; the non-profit sector; low carbon mechanism; good governance; climate adaptation; REDD plus; carbon financing; green economy and renewable energy; nature, culture and power.

Prof. Bhandari’s major teaching and research specialties include: Sociological theories and Practices; Social and Environmental research methods; Social and Environmental innovation; Social and Environmental policies; Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation; International environmental governance; Green Economy; Sustainability and assessment of the economic, social and environmental impacts on society and nature. In brief, Prof. Bhandari has sound theoretical and practical knowledge in social science and environment science. His field experience spans across Asia, Africa, the North America, Western Europe, Australia, Japan and the Middle East. Professor Bhandari has published 4 books, and about 50 scholarly papers in international scientific journals.

Research Interest

• Technology and innovation
• Comparative methodology
• Design to implementation
• Network analysis.

Scientific Activities

Employment History

Professional Activities

• 2017 Member Editorial Board of the International Research Journal "SocioEconomic Challenges (SEC)" Ukraine
• 2017 Member Editorial Board of the Biological and Applied Environmental
• Research journal (BAER), Sweden
• 2016 Member of the Editorial Review Board, Journal of American Academic Research, JAAR Publishing Center, San Francisco, CA, USA (ISSN: 2328-1227)
• 2015 Editor in Chief - Arabian Gulf Journal of Scientific Research (AGJSR), Arabian Gulf University, Kingdom of Bahrain
• The Arab Gulf Journal of Scientific Research [AGJSR] publishes full length original research papers and upon invitation review articles, in the fields of pure and applied sciences. AGJSR considers essentially manuscripts in English. Arabic manuscripts are also accepted and published annually in a special issue. The journal keeps the standard of the published manuscript high by refereeing it to reputed referees specialized in the respective field.
• 2015 Series Editor, River Publishers Series in Earth and Environmental Sciences, River Publishers, Denmark / the Netherlands

Honors And Awards

• 2011 The Best Paper Award “CLIMATE 2011”, provided by the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
• 2011OIKOS Fellow, OIKOS Foundation for Economy and Ecology, St. Gallen, Switzerland, I was chosen as an OIKOS Young Scholars International Economics Academy 2011 by the OIKOS foundation, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
• 2008 - Goekjian Fellow, Syracuse University, Maxwell School, NY, USA
• 2008-Graduate Fellowship (Prestigious Award), Syracuse University, USA 2008-Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society
• 2007- Golden Key International (Award for academic excellence)
• 2006- Endeavour International Research Award (EIPRS) (Australia) (Government of Australia)

Publications

1. Bhandari, Medani P. and Oli, Krishna P. (2017), ‘The NGOs Rehearsal in Nepal, Civil Society in the Global South (Palash Kamruzzaman edits.), Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, UK.
2. Bhandari, Medani P. (2017). The Debates between Quantitative and Qualitative Method: An Ontology and Epistemology of Qualitative Method- the Pedagogical Development, in Douglass Capogrossi (Ed.) Educational Transformation: The University as Catalyst for Human Advancement, Xlibris Corporation, USA (in press)
3. Bhandari, Medani P. (2017). The Pedagogical Development of the International Organization and Organizational Sociology Theories and Perspectives, in Douglass Capogrossi (Ed.) Educational Transformation: The University as Catalyst for Human Advancement, Xlibris Corporation, USA (in press)
4. Bhandari, Medani P. (2014). “Is Tourism Always Beneficial? A Case Study from Masai Mara National Reserve, Narok, Kenya”. Pacific Journal of Science and Technology. 15(1):458-483.
5. Bhandari, Medani P. (2014) “Civil Society and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) Movements in Nepal and terms of Social Transformation”. Pacific Journal of Science and Technology. 15(1):177-189.
6. Shah AH, Bhandari, Medani P. Al-Harbi NO, Al-Ashban RM (2014) Kaff-E-Maryam (Anastatica Hierochuntica L.): Evaluation of Gastro-Protective Activity and Toxicity in Different Experimental Models. Biol Med 6: 197. doi: 10.4172/0974-8369.1000197
7. Bhandari, Medani P. (2012) Environmental Performance and Vulnerability to Climate Change: A Case Study of India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, “Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management" Series: Climate Change Management (pp 149-167), Springer, New York / Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-642-31109-3