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SEMINARS/ TALKS: Impact of Electricity on Economic Growth in Nepal: ARDL Approach (NTA 2023); Local Equity Sharing Model & Hydropower Development: Global South (UNR, 2022); Hydropower Developemnt & Spatial Inequality (AAG-Water Specialty 2021); Hydropower Dams & Environmental Justice in Nepal (APCG 2020); Spatial-Temporal Analysis Hydropower Development in Nepal (APCG 2018); Case for Small Hydropower Projects (Oxford University 2016); Dams and Earthquakes: Perspectives from Nepal (Berkeley 2015) RESEARCH: Building Community Resilience: Environmental Justice & Community GIS Approach to Extreme Weather Preparedness in West Texas, 2023 Examining Social Equity, Environmental Justice, and Drought Risk in West Texas: GWR-Forest Approach, 2023 Rana, B. (2020), A SWOT Analysis of Nepalese Hydropower Policy. Advanced Journal of Social Science, 7 (1), 71-80. Rana, B. 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