Prakash Nepal, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Prakash Nepal, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Jenna Zukswert. 2026. Commercial Forestry and Conservation Can Coexist: Economic Implications of Increased Forest Protection
• Rahul Prasad Bangalore Ashok, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal, Jeffrey Paul Youngblood, Troy Runge. 2026. Economic and Environmental Performance of Cellulose Nanofibril-Coated Molded Pulp Trays for Fresh Fruit Packaging
• Prakash Nepal, Anthony Waldron, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Trisha Gopalakrishna, Martin Jung. 2026. Economic costs of global forest protection may be overstated
• Rahul Prasad Bangalore Ashok, Richard Bergman, Md Shahadat Hossain, Deepak Kumar, Prakash Nepal, Troy Runge. 2026. Cellulose nanocrystals from forest residues: An integrated techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment
• Raziyeh Jokar, Hossein Jahromi, Ashish Manandhar, Sushil Adhikari, Prakash Nepal, Richard Bergman, Naveenkumar Rajendiran, Ajay Shah. 2026. Comparative Life-Cycle Assessment of Biochar and Nickel Catalysts for CO₂ -Free Hydrogen Production via Methane Decomposition
• Rajan Parajuli, Pradip Saud, Omkar Joshi, Suwash Kunwar, Prakash Nepal. 2025. Perceived adverse impacts undermine socio-economic benefits of resin tapping to the rural livelihood in far-western Nepal
• Alexander Bremner, Neelam Chandra Poudyal, Prakash Nepal, Consuelo Brandeis, Adam Taylor. 2025. Stakeholders’ Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding the Viability of Hardwood Cross Laminated Timber (CLT)
• Poonam Khatri, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal, David L. Nicholls, Andrew Gray. 2025. Evaluating life cycle greenhouse gas emissions from alternative forest residue utilization: Energy and product pathways
• Naveenkumar Rajendiran, Troy Runge, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal, Syed Ali, Abdullah Al Fahim, Mehdi Khanzadeh. Moradllo. 2025. Economic and environmental impact analysis of cellulose nanocrystal-reinforced cementitious mixture in 3D printing
• Frederick Cubbage, Robert Davis, Jaana Korhonen, Prakash Nepal, Bruno Kanieski da Silva. 2025. Comparative assessment of global wood fiber and forest carbon sequestration prospects
• Poonam Khatri, Dan Loeffler, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal. 2025. On-Site Energy Consumption and Life-Cycle Environmental Impacts of Sawmills in California
• Naveenkumar Rajendiran, Troy Runge, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal, Nithya Nair, Warda Ashraf. 2024. Economic and environmental impact analysis of cellulose nanofiber-reinforced concrete mixture production
• Prakash Nepal, Austin Lamica, Rajan Parajuli. 2024. Projected effects of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on global forest products markets
• Vaibhav Kumar, Marco Lo Ricco, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal, Neelam C. Poudyal. 2024. Data and bills of materials for buildings designed for mass timber, structural steel, and reinforced concrete based on the 2021 international building code provisions
• Lara T. Murray, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Andrew J. Lister, Keith Stockmann, Hongmei Gu, Shawn P. Urbanski, Karin Riley, Eric J. Greenfield, Christopher Farley, Hans Andersen, Linda S. Heath, Jeff W. Atkins, Grant M. Domke, Andrew C. Oishi, James Smith, Richard Birdsey, David Skole, Stephen Prisley, Anthony D’Amato, Ethan Belair, Eric Marland, Prakash Nepal, Poonam Khatri, Indroneil Ganguly, Richard Bergman, Kamalakanta Sahoo, John D. Shaw, Jens Stevens, Thomas Buchholz, John Gunn, Lisa McCauley, Joe Fargione, Alexis Ellis, David J. Nowak, Mark Majewsky, Christopher Mihiar. 2024. Quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems
• Lixia Lambert, Ryan Jacobson, David Rossi, Consuelo Brandeis, Maggie Davis, Jeremy S. Fried, Burton English, Robert Abt, Karen Abt, Prakash Nepal, Claire O'Dea, Jeffrey P. Prestemon. 2024. Chapter 4: Biomass from the forested land base
• Prakash Nepal, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Indroneil Ganguly, Vaibhav Kumar, Richard Bergman, Neelam C. Poudyal, Andrew T. Carswell. 2024. The potential use of mass timber in mid-to high-rise construction and the associated carbon benefits in the United States
• Naveenkumar Rajendiran, Troy Runge, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal, Neethu T. Pottackal, Muhammad M. Rahman. 2024. Economic and environmental analysis of producing soy protein-cellulose-based bionanocomposite fruit coating
• Vaibhav Kumar, Marco Lo Ricco, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal, Neelam C. Poudyal. 2024. Environmental impact assessment of mass timber, structural steel, and reinforced concrete buildings based on the 2021 international building code provisions
• Taylor K. Lucey, Nadia Tase, Prakash Nepal, Richard Bergman, David L. Nicholls, Poonam Khatri, Kamalakanta Sahoo, Andrew Gray. 2024. A synthesis of harvested wood product carbon models
• Ram K. Adhikari, Neelam C. Poudyal, Consuelo Brandeis, Prakash Nepal. 2023. Identifying optimal locations for hardwood CLT plants in Tennessee: application of a spatially explicit framework
• Naveenkumar Rajendiran, Troy Runge, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal, Nasim Alikhani, Ling Li, Shane R. O'Neill, Jinwu Wang. 2023. Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of manufacturing a cellulose nanocrystal-based hybrid membrane
• Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Prakash Nepal. 2023. Structural changes in the forest sector and their long-term consequences for the forest sector – a  contribution to the Forest Sector Outlook Study 2020-2040
• Poonam Khatri, Prakash Nepal, Kamalakanta Sahoo, Richard Bergman, David L. Nicholls, Andrew Gray. 2023. California's harvested wood products: A time-dependent assessment of life cycle greenhouse gas emissions
• Seyed Hashem Mousavi-Avval, Kamalakanta Sahoo, Prakash Nepal, Troy Runge, Richard Bergman. 2023. Environmental impacts and techno-economic assessments of biobased products: A review
• Adam Taylor, Hongmei Gu, Prakash Nepal, Richard Bergman. 2023. Carbon Credits for Mass Timber Construction
• Naveenkumar Rajendran, Troy Runge, Richard Bergman, Prakash Nepal, Carl J. Houtman. 2023. Techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of cellulose nanocrystals production from wood pulp
• Jennifer Costanza, Frank H. H. Koch, Matt C. Reeves, Kevin M. Potter, Karen G. Schleeweis, Kurt Riitters, Sarah Anderson, Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Linda A. Joyce, Prakash Nepal, Benjamin Poulter, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, J. Morgan Varner, David M. Walker. 2023. Disturbances to Forests and Rangelands
• Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Prakash Nepal. 2022. The outlook for the UNECE forest sector in a changing climate: a contribution to the Forest Sector Outlook Study 2020-2040
• Prakash Nepal, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Linda A. Joyce, Kenneth E. Skog. 2022. Global forest products markets and forest sector carbon impacts of projected sea level rise
• Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Prakash Nepal, Kamalakanta Sahoo. 2022. Housing starts and the associated wood products carbon storage by county by Shared Socioeconomic Pathway in the United States
• Rachel Pasternack, Mark Wishnie, Caitlin Clarke, Yangyang Wang, Ethan Belair, Steve Marshall, Hongmei Gu, Prakash Nepal, Franz Dolezal, Guy Lomax, Craig Johnston, Gabriel Felmer, Rodrigo Morales-Vera, Maureen Puettmann, Robyn Van den Huevel. 2022. What Is the Impact of Mass Timber Utilization on Climate and Forests?
• Hongmei Gu, Prakash Nepal, Matthew A. Arvanitis, Delton Alderman. 2021. Carbon impacts of engineered wood products in construction
• Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Prakash Nepal, Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Christopher P.O. Reyer, Hans Verkerk, Louis König, Tristan Herrmann, Galina Churkina, Mariana Hassegawa, Marcus Lindner, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, John B. Kim, Christopher Prins. 2021. Forest Sector Outlook Study 2020-2040
• Prakash Nepal, Craig M. T. Johnston, Indroneil Ganguly. 2021. Effects on Global Forests and Wood Product Markets of Increased Demand for Mass Timber
• Kai Lan, Longwen Ou, Sunkyu Park, Stephen S. Kelley, Prakash Nepal, Hoyoung Kwon, Hao Cai, Yuan Yao. 2021. Dynamic life-cycle carbon analysis for fast pyrolysis biofuel produced from pine residues: implications of carbon temporal effects
• Prakash Nepal, Joseph Buongiorno, Craig M.T. Johnston, Jeffrey Prestemon, Jinggang Guo. 2021. Global forest products trade model
• Kai Lan, Stephen Kelley, Prakash Nepal, Yuan Yao. 2020. Dynamic life cycle carbon and energy analysis for cross-laminated timber in the Southeastern United States
• Jaana Korhonen, Prakash Nepal, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Frederick W. Cubbage. 2020. Projecting global and regional outlooks for planted forests under the shared socio-economic pathways
• Craig Johnston, Joseph Buongiorno, Prakash Nepal, Jeffrey P. Prestemon. 2019. From source to sink: Past changes and model projections of carbon sequestration in the global forest sector
• Prakash Nepal, Jaana Korhonen, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Frederick W. Cubbage. 2019. Projecting global and regional forest area under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways using an updated Environmental Kuznets Curve model
• Prakash Nepal, Jaana Korhonen, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Frederick W. Cubbage. 2019. Projecting global planted forest area developments and the associated impacts on global forest product markets
• Prakash Nepal, Karen Abt, Kenneth E. Skog, Jeffrey Prestemon, Robert C. Abt. 2018. Projected Market Competition for Wood Biomass between Traditional Products and Energy: A Simulated Interaction of US Regional, National, and Global Forest Product Markets
• Gregory E. Frey, Prakash Nepal. 2016. Forest economics and policy in a changing environment: how market, policy, and climate transformations affect forests -- Proceedings of the 2016 Meeting of the International Society of Forest Resource Economics
• Bryce Stokes, Timothy G. Rials, Leonard R. Johnson, Karen Abt, Prakash Nepal, Kenneth E. Skog, Robert C. Abt, Lixia He, Burton C. English. 2016. Chapter 3 - At the roadside: Forest resources
• Prakash Nepal, Kenneth E. Skog, David B. McKeever, Richard Bergman, Karen Abt, Robert C. Abt. 2016. Carbon Mitigation Impacts of Increased Softwood Lumber and Structural Panel Use for Nonresidential Construction in the United States
• Prakash Nepal, Kenneth E. Skog. 2014. Chapter 8: Estimating net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wood energy use; Issues and the current state of knowledge
• Prakash Nepal, David N. Wear, Kenneth E. Skog. 2014. Net change in carbon emissions with increased wood energy use in the United States
• Prakash Nepal, Peter J. Ince, Kenneth E. Skog, Sun J. Chang. 2013. Forest carbon benefits, costs and leakage effects of carbon reserve scenarios in the United States
• Prakash Nepal, Peter J. Ince, Kenneth E. Skog, Sun J. Chang. 2013. Projected US timber and primary forest product market impacts of climate change mitigation through timber set-asides
• Peter J. Ince, Prakash Nepal. 2012. Effects on U.S. Timber Outlook of Recent Economic Recession, Collapse in Housing Construction, and Wood Energy Trends
• Prakash Nepal, Peter J. Ince, Kenneth E. Skog, Sun J. Chang. 2012. Projection of U.S. forest sector carbon sequestration under U.S. and global timber market and wood energy consumption scenarios, 2010-2060
• Prakash Nepal, Peter J. Ince, Kenneth E. Skog, Sun J. Chang. 2012. Developing Inventory Projection Models Using Empirical Net Forest Growth and Growing-Stock Density Relationships Across U.S. Regions and Species Group

• Project
  

  Addressing market and policy challenges to successful fuel treatments and timber harvests (WCS12)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/srs/projects/markets-policy-fueltreatments
  Station

  Southern Research Station
• Project
  

  Utilizing small diameter trees for mass timber production: Economic, environmental, and supply chain network assessment

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/fpl/projects/bil-small-diameter-trees-mass-timber
  Station

  Forest Products Laboratory
• Project
  

  Identifying potential locations for expanded, reactivated and new wood processing facilities

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/fpl/projects/bil-locating-wood-processing-facilities
  Station

  Forest Products Laboratory

Articles

• Article
  

  Commercial Forestry and Conservation Can Coexist: Economic Implications of Increased Forest Protection

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/fpl/articles/commercial-forestry-and-conservation-can-coexist-economic-implications-increased

• Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, Ph.D., Forest Resources (Focus-Forest Economics), 2011
• Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, M.S., Tropical Forest Management, 2006
• International Institute of Geo-information Sciences and Earth Observation, Enschede, The Netherlands, M.S., Natural Resources Management, 2004
• Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Nepal, B.S., Forestry, Wildlife, Soil and Water Conservation, 1999