• ISBN13: 9788132104636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Earth-Science/Environment
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publisher Imprint: SAGE India
• Publication Date: June 4, 2010
• Pages: 404
• Original Price: INR 1275.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 590 grams

Beginning with the ecological, economic, social, and legal facets of biodiversity issues and challenges facing the Himalayan region, the book discusses the Convention on Biological Diversity and subsequent developments. A pioneering work on the protection of the Himalayan biodiversity, it uses tools upheld by international environmental law and examines exhaustively the possibility of evolving regional partnerships for the protection of the Himalayas.

Ananda Mohan Bhattarai is a judge in the Court of Appeal in Nepal. He was associated with the National Judicial Academy, Nepal since its establishment in 2004, where he worked first as a core faculty and later as an extended faculty. He has worked in the Nepal judiciary for more than 27 years.

He holds an L.L.M. and J.S.D. from the National Law School of India, Bangalore. He was a SPURS/Hubert Humphrey Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (2002–03) and Georg Forster Fellow at Max Planck Institute of International Law and Comparative Public Law, Heidelberg, Germany (2005–06 and 2008). Apart from numerous research articles, he has published two books: Displacement and Rehabilitation in Nepal (2001) and Communities, Forests and Laws of Nepal (2005, co-authored with Dilraj Khanal).