Dr. Ganesh Dhungana

Ganesh Dhungana

Postdoctoral Fellow

Disaster Resilience Research Network

Email: gan.dhungana@ubc.ca

Biography

Dr. Ganesh Dhungana holds a PhD in Disaster Management and is currently working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the UBC Disaster Resilience Research Network. Before joining UBC, he served as Project Lead for the Program on Resilient Communities at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University.

Research Interests

Disaster Governance; Community Resilience; Social Vulnerability; Sustainability Frameworks; Indigenous Knowledge; Climate Change Adaptation; Humanitarian Action

Awards & Recognitions

  • Brown International Advanced Research Institutes Fellowship 2017, Brown University, USA
  • Development Leadership Scholar Award 2018, jointly awarded by the OPEC Fund for International Development, Austria, and One Young World, UK
  • Social Science and Humanitarian Action Fellowship, Institute of Development Studies, UK
  • DIHAD Scholar Award 2025, DIHAD Sustainable Organisation, UAE. 

Publications

  • Dhungana, G., & Pal, I. (2025). Assessing the role of international agencies in disaster governance in the aftermath of the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Progress in Disaster Science, 100421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2025.100421
  • Dhungana, G., Ghimire, R., Poudel, R., & Kumal, S. (2023). Landslide susceptibility and risk analysis in Benighat Rural Municipality, Dhading, Nepal. Natural Hazards Research, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nhres.2023.03.006
  • Dhungana, G., Pal, I., & Bhattarai, P. C. (2022). Indigenous knowledge of Chepang in disaster risk reduction. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (pp. 243–256). Springer https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6297-4_18
  • Dhungana, G., Pal, I., Ghimire, R., Dhungana, R. K., & Tuladhar, N. (2023). The foundation of indigenous knowledge theory for disaster risk reduction. Elsevier Books, 347–361. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-95682-6.00016-4
  • Pal, I., Baskota, A., Dhungana, G., Udmale, P., Gadhawe, M. A., Doydee, P., Nguyen, N., Sophat, S., & Banerjee, S. (2023). Index-based tools for livelihood security and resilience assessment (LiSeRA) in lower Mekong Basin. MethodsX, 11, 102301–102301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2023.102301
  • Acharyya, R., Majumder, A., Niloy Pramanick, N., Mukhopadhyay, A., Pramanik, M., Dhungana, G., Hati, J. P., & Das, B. (2025). A Geo-Intelligent Approach in Analysing Land Use Transformation and Socio-Economic Change (1991–2031) in a Tropical Metropolitan. Earth Systems and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-025-00798-6
  • Pal, I., Baskota, A., Dhungana, G., Banerjee, S., Udmale, P., Gadhawe, M. A., Doydee, P., Nguyen, T. T. N., & Sophat, S. (2024). Sustaining livelihoods and building resilience: Policy implications for the Lower Mekong Basin. APN Science Bulletin, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.30852/sb.2024.2723
  • Rijal, S., Bhattarai, P., Dhungana, G., Shah, K., & Shrestha, R. (2024). Seed Storage Practices and Cultivation Techniques: A Survey in Gajuri Rural Municipality, Nepal. Zeszyty Naukowe SGGW W Warszawie – Problemy Rolnictwa Światowego, 24(2), 49–59. https://doi.org/10.22630/prs.2024.24.2.8
  • Pal, I., Dhungana, G., Baskota, A., Parmeshwar Udmale, P., Gadhawe, M. A., Doydee, P., Nguyen, N.,& Seak Sophat, S. (2023). Multi-Hazard Livelihood Security and Resilience of Lower Mekong Basin Communities. Sustainability, 15(11), 8469–8469. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15118469
  • Pal, I., Dhungana, G., & Tuladhar, N. (2022). COVID-19 and Shifting Paradigm in Asian Education System. In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (pp. 237–249). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4715-5_15
  • Pal, I., Shaw, R., & Dhungana, G. (2022). COVID-19 pandemic, global spread, issues, and challenges. In I.Pal & R. Shaw (Eds.), Pandemic Risk, Response, and Resilience (pp. 3–12). Elsevier https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-99277-0.00021-8
  • Dhungana, G., Stoddard, H., & Bollettino, V. (2023). Towards Resilient Communities: Scoping Study Report | Nepal. In hhi.harvard.edu. Harvard University. USA. https://hhi.harvard.edu/publications/towards-resilient-communities-scoping-study-report-nepal
  • Pal, I., Shrestha, S., Shaw, R., Yonariza, Y., Hizbaron, D. R., Ichinose, T., Oda, T., & Dhungana, G. (Eds.). (2021). Disaster Risk Research, Science and n for Sustainability – Asian Case Studies (First). Asian Institute of Technology. ISBN 978-616-341-096-2
  • Tran, M., Niraula, D., Pottinger-Glass, C., Khoza, S., Dhungana, G., & Nitsch C. (2023). Inclusive urban development to reduce biological hazards and disaster risk: a case study of Bharatpur, Nepal. SEI brief. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://doi.org/10.51414/sei2023.019