Astrid Hovden

• Kropáček, Jan & Hovden, Astrid (2024). The Role of Natural Hazards and Socio-Cultural Factors in Shaping the History of Settlement Locations in the Limi Valley, North-West Nepal. In Kalvoda, Jan & Novotná, Eva (Ed.), The Nature of Geomorphological Hazards in the Nepal Himalaya. Springer. ISSN 9783031584206. p. 359–374. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-58421-3_11. Full text in Research Archive
• Diemberger, Hildegard G.M. & Hovden, Astrid (2022). People of the Cryosphere: a Cross-Regional, Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Icescapes in a Changing Climate. In Ulturgasheva, Olga & Bodenhorn, Barbara (Ed.), Risky Futures: Climate, Geopolitics and Local Realities in the Uncertain Circumpolar North. Berghahn Books. ISSN 9781800735934. p. 148–175. doi: 10.3167/9781800735934. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid & Havnevik, Hanna (2021). Balancing the Sacred Landscape: Environmental Management in Limi, North-Western Nepal. In Kuyakanon, Riamsara; Diemberger, Hildegard G.M. & Sneath, David (Ed.), Cosmopolitical Ecologies Across Asia: Places and Practices of Power in Changing Environments. Routledge. ISSN 9780367477363. Full text in Research Archive
• Diemberger, Hildegard G.M.; Hovden, Astrid & Yeh, Emily T. (2015). The honour of the snow-mountains is the snow: Tibetan livelihoods in a changing climate. In Huggel, Christian; Carey, Mark; Clague, John J. & Kääb, Andreas (Ed.), The High-Mountain Cryosphere: Environmental Changes and Human Risks. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781107065840. p. 249–271. doi: 10.1017/cbo9781107588653.014. Full text in Research Archive
• Kropacek, J.; Neckel, N.; Tyrna, B.; Holzer, N.; Hovden, Astrid & Gourmelen, Noel [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2015). Repeated glacial lake outburst flood threatening the oldest Buddhist monastery in north-western Nepal. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences. ISSN 1561-8633. 15(10), p. 2425–2437. doi: 10.5194/nhess-15-2425-2015. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2013). Who were the sponsors? Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries. In Ramble, Charles; Schwieger, Peter & Travers, Alice (Ed.), Tibetans who Escaped the Historian's Net: Studies in the Social History of Tibetan Societies. Vajra Publications. ISSN 9789937623100. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2011). Ritualised memories: Maintenance of the Saga Dawa festival tradition in contemporary Lhasa. In Tuttle, Gray (Eds.), Mapping the Modern in Tibet. International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH. ISSN 9783038091110. p. 327–352. Full text in Research Archive

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• Hovden, Astrid (2025). Limi, the Land In-Between: The Art of Governing a Buddhist Frontier Community in the Himalaya. De Gruyter Brill. ISBN 9789004714571. doi: 10.1163/9789004714571. Full text in Research Archive

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• Hovden, Astrid (2026). Cultural and environmental heritage in Limi: thoughts on its challenges and political relevance. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2025). What does Buddhism have to do with it? Local responses to climate change in north-west Nepal. Full text in Research Archive
• Otto, Marco; Kropáček, Jan; Hovden, Astrid; Meier, Fred; Gentsch, Thomas & Scherer, Dieter (2025). Seven Years in Nepal: High-Altitude (5350 m a.s.l.) Automatic Weather Station at Halji (Nepal) for Snow Height and Air Temperature Data (2018-2025) to Support GLOF Risk Assessment. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2024). Changing climate and connectivities in the Nepal Himalayas. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid; Kuyakanon, Riamsara; Havnevik, Hanna; Thorsdalen, Sissel & Seim, Runhild (2022). Changing climate and communities in high places and icy spaces. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid & Lama, Rinchen Loden (2022). Water, women and work: reflections on gendered responses to environmental and climatic change in Limi, Nepal. Full text in Research Archive
• Havnevik, Hanna; Kuyakanon, Riamsara; Hovden, Astrid & Diemberger, Hildegard G.M. (2022). Contribution (with seven other international scholars) during Roundtable: Changing climate in Tibetan, Himalayan and Mongolian regions: adaptive strategies in dynamic social, ecological and cosmological landscapes. Full text in Research Archive
• Kropáček, Jan & Hovden, Astrid (2021). Relocations of settlements in Limi Valley in Humla driven by natural hazards in the context of a changing climate? Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2019). Continuity and changes in environmental decision-making in a Himalayan border community. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2019). Hva betyr religion for klimaet i Himalaya? Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2019). Can Buddhism contribute to climate change adaptation in Nepal? Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2019). Environmental management in the new municipalities in Nepal – conflicting or complementing systems? Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2019). Introductory talk: Environmental management in a changing climate - communicating local perspectives from the Kailash Sacred Landscape. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2018). Fieldwork case study I: Limi, Nepal. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2018). Digital tools and outputs. Full text in Research Archive
• Havnevik, Hanna & Hovden, Astrid (2018). Himalayan connections: melting glaciers, sacred landscapes and mobile technologies in a changing climate. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2017). Melting glaciers, religious authorities and new connectivities in Himalayan communities. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2017). Between village and monastery: a historical ethnography of a Tibetan Buddhist community in north-western Nepal. PhD thesis resumé. Études Mongoles & Sibériennes, Centrasiatiques & Tibétaines. ISSN 0766-5075. 48. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2016). Stolte buddhister. [Journal]. Morgenbladet, Doktoren svarer. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2016). Monastic Recruitment, Household Organisation, and New Networks of Patronage in a Himalayan Frontier Community. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2016). Patronage, Monastic Recruitment and Household Organisation in a Himalayan Community. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2014). Five Hundred Years of Flood Management – Environmental Adaption Strategies in a Community in the Nepal Himalayas. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2013). Rinchen Sangpo og den andre spreiinga av buddhismen i Tibet – sett frå Limi, Nepal. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2013). Coping with floods: changing environmental adaptation strategies in a community in the Nepal Himalayas. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2013). Who were the sponsors? Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in three Himalayan village monasteries. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2013). Seminar on Academic Writing and Study Techniques. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2013). Paying the monk tax: Reflections on recruitment and ritual economy in Himalayan village monasteries. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2013). Still paying bod khral and mon khral: Taxes and community obligations in a Himalayan village. Full text in Research Archive
• Ohrvik, Ane & Hovden, Astrid (2012). Erfaringer med å søke og gjennomføre phd-prosjekter. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2012). Ethical considerations in ethnographic fieldwork – experiences from Nepal. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2011). If this is what a small glacial lake flood can do, imagine a big one. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2011). Rituals of Rinchenling - preliminary results from fieldwork in Limi, northwestern Nepal. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2011). Himalayan village caught between culture and nature. [Internet]. BBC News. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

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• Hovden, Astrid (2010). Tibetanske festival- og pilegrimstradisjonar: Feiring av Saga Dawa og Drugpa Tseshi festivalane i dagens Lhasa. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2009). Omgrepet "stad" som analytisk kategori i religionsvitskapen. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2009). Seminar in academic writing. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2007). Celebrating festivals, negotiating memories: A study of the Drugpa Tseshi tradition in Lhasa. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2007). Vidareføring av tibetanske pilegrimstradisjonar i dagens Lhasa. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2006). Ritualised memories: Maintenance of the Saga Dawa festival tradition in contemporary Lhasa. Full text in Research Archive
• Amatya, Serena; Basnet, Sunayana; Kunwar, Sushmita; Pasakhala, Binaya; Rana, Pradyumna & Hovden, Astrid [Show all 8 contributors for this article] (2020). Proceedings of the workshop on Environmental management in a changing climate Communicating local perspectives from the Kailash Sacred Landscape 30 September – 1 October 2019. ICIMOD. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2016). Between village and monastery. A historical ethnography of a Tibetan Buddhist community in north-western Nepal. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Hovden, Astrid (2006). Ritual, place and memory: maintenance of religious festival traditions in contemporary Lhasa. Universitetet i Bergen. Full text in Research Archive

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