About the Authors

Naba Raj Pandit

Affiliations Institute for Environmental Sciences (IMV), Norwegian University of Life sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway, Nepal Agroforestry Foundation (NAF), Koteshwor, Kathmandu, Nepal

Jan Mulder

Affiliation Institute for Environmental Sciences (IMV), Norwegian University of Life sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway

Sarah Elisabeth Hale

Affiliation Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo, Norway

Hans Peter Schmidt

Affiliation Ithaka Institute for Carbon Strategies, Ancienne Eglise 9, Arbaz, Switzerland

Gerard Cornelissen

gco@ngi.no

Affiliations Institute for Environmental Sciences (IMV), Norwegian University of Life sciences (NMBU), Ås, Norway, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The results of this paper were further part of the Asia Development Bank project TA-7984 NEP: Mainstreaming Climate Change Risk Management in Development, financed by the Nordic Development Fund and the Government of Nepal under the administrative lead of Landell Mills Ltd, UK. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GC JM SEH HPS NRP. Data curation: NRP GC. Formal analysis: NRP. Funding acquisition: GC. Investigation: NRP GC HPS. Methodology: HPS GC JM SEH NRP. Project administration: GC. Resources: GC. Software: NRP. Supervision: GC JM HPS SEH. Validation: JM SEH. Visualization: NRP. Writing – original draft: NRP GC. Writing – review & editing: GC JM SEH HPS.