Dipesh Chapagain defended his doctoral thesis at the Center for Development Research (ZEF) of Bonn University on 07. August 2023. He was supervised by PD Dr. Luna Bharati from ICWRGC.
Dipesh Chapaign at the Defense of his doctoral thesis with supervisor PD Dr. Luna Bharati and members of the examination commission Prof. Christian Borgemeister and Prof. Eike Lüdeling from Uni Bonn.
Dipesh Chapagain with his advisor PD Dr. Luna Bharati.
The title of the PhD thesis is:
Detection and Attribution of Spatiotemporal Trends of Climatic Disaster Mortality in Nepal.
Three journal articles were prepared as part of the PhD work:
- Chapagain, D., Bharati, L., Mechler, R., KC, S., Pflug, G., & Borgemeister, C. (2023). Understanding the role of climate change in disaster mortality: Empirical evidence from the Global South. [In Review]. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4361196 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4361196
- Chapagain, D., Bharati, L., & Borgemeister, C. (2022). Declining vulnerability but rising impacts: the trends of climatic disasters in Nepal. Regional Environmental Change, 22(2), 55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-022-01903-5
- Chapagain, D., Dhaubanjar, S. & Bharati, L. (2021). Unpacking future climate extremes and their sectoral implications in western Nepal. Climatic Change 168, 8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03216-8