In Conversation with Dr. Yonten Nyima

Please join us in conversation with Tibetan scholar, Dr. Yonten Nyima as he discusses his research on the government resettlement of Tibetan pastoralists and development-related displacement.

Dr. Yonten Nyima is a human geographer specializing in Tibetan pastoralism. His main research interests are on development and environmental policies, pastoralism, rangeland and natural resource management and access, indigenous knowledge and climate change, and ethnic governance. He draws from political ecology and political economy in examining rationales for, implementation of, and socioeconomic, cultural, political and ecological effects of China’s ongoing development and environmental policies in Tibet. He has published peer-reviewed articles on Tibetan pastoralism in journals including Inner Asia, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, Society and Natural Resources, Conservation and Society, Area, and Human Ecology.

Born in Nagchu, central Tibet, he earned degrees in human geography (Ph.D., University of Colorado-Boulder, U.S.A., 2012), international affairs with a concentration in economic and political development (M.A., Columbia University, U.S.A., 2006), and meteorology (B.S., Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, China, 1994). He worked at the Institute of Social Development and Western China Development Studies at Sichuan University in western China, doing research on development and environmental policies in pastoral Tibet. He is now based in New York City working as an independent scholar.

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