Research Priorities

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The rubric of Environment, Livelihoods and Culture is realized through the following research priorities. These are broad themes under which a variety of specific projects may be carried out by members of the Initiative in a range of locations across the Himalaya.

• Migration and land use change
• Urban growth in the Himalaya: environmental, social and political issues
• Community forestry: transregional lessons in theory and practice
• Sacred geography and pilgrimage in a cross-border context
• Linguistic diversity and educational transformation
• Literary and artistic production and dissemination
• Ethnicity, inequality and conflict 
• Religious and cultural history of pre-modern and early modern tradition