Kenneth M Bauer
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Dartmouth College
United States of America
Biography
Kenneth M Bauer, as lecturer in the Department of Anthropology and the AMES program, teach courses on environment and development issues, with a regional focus on Asia and thematic interests in state-society relations, biodiversity conservation, and climate change. Among his research interests are nomad settlement in Tibetan areas of China and economic development in the Himalayas. Ken has more than 20 years of experience as a development consultant for a variety of organizations including UNDP, Asian Development Bank, USAID, TetraTech, and Winrock International. Ken holds a BA from Brown University, an MSc from University of California-Berkeley, and a DPhil degree from the University of Oxford.
Research Interest
International development, pastoralists, Himalayas, Tibet, resettlement and urbanization, Liberia, community forestry, conservation
Publications
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Salick Jan, Anja Byg, Kenneth Bauer (2012) Contemporary Tibetan Cosmology of Climate Change.†Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture 6(4):447-Â476.
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Bauer KM (2014) High Frontiers: Dolpo Revisited. Tibet Journal 39(1): 157-181.
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Bauer KM (2015) New homes, new lives: The impacts of resettlement on Tibetan nomads in Qinghai Province, PRC. Nomadic Peoples 19(2): 209-220.