By Shailendra Thakali, Brian Peniston, Govinda Basnet, and Mahendra Shrestha, Conservation and Prosperity in New Federal Nepal: Opportunities and Challenges documents the historical contribution of conservation to Nepal’s national and local prosperity, identifies several important capacity gaps at national and local levels of government, analyzes the impacts of new subnational government structures on different forms of protected areas throughout the country, and identifies emerging new responsibilities of each level of government.