Publications

Books:

1997 Editor and main author (6 chapters).  Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, editor, Washington D.C.: Island Press, 361 pages.
1993 Claiming the High Ground:  Sherpas, Subsistence, and Environmental Change in the Highest Himalaya, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 537 pages.

Book Chapters:

2010 Howitt, R. and S. Stevens.  “Cross-Cultural Research: Ethics, Methods and Relationships,” in Iain Hay editor, Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, revised 3nd edition,  Toronto: Oxford University Press.  Expanded version of our co-authored 2005 chapter in the previous edition.
2009 Stevens, S.  “Seeking Respect for a Sherpa Community Conserved Area: Responsibility, Recognition, and Rights in the Mt. Everest Region of Nepal,” in Jessica Campese, ed. Issues and Opportunities for Rights Based Approaches to Conservation. Bogor, Indonesia: CIFOR
2008 “Afterword” in M. Galvin and T. Haller, eds. People, Protected Areas and Global Change: Participatory Conservation in Latin America, Africa, Asia and Europe. Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) North-South, University of Bern, pp. 551-557
2007 “Foreword,” in United Nations Development Programme, Tourism and Rural Poverty Alleviation Project, Nepal’s Experience Implementing Sustainable Tourism Development Models: Lessons Learned.  Kathmandu: Government of Nepal, Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation, UNDP TRPAP, United Kingdom Department for International Development and SNV-Nepal, pp. iv-vii.
2005 “Cross-Cultural Research: Ethics, Methods and Relationships,” (with R.  Howitt) in Iain Hay editor, Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography, 2nd edition,  Melbourne: Oxford University Press, pp. 39-71.
1999 “Sherpa Protection of the Mount Everest Region of Nepal,” in Darrell A. Posey, editor, Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity, London: UN Environment Program, pp. 334-336.
1997 “Annapurna Conservation Area: Empowerment, Conservation, and Development in Nepal,” in Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, S. Stevens, editor, Washington D.C.: Island Press, pp. 237-261.
1997 “Consultation, Co-Management, and Conflict in Sagarmatha (Mount Everest) National Park, Nepal,” in Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, S. Stevens, editor, Washington D.C.: Island Press, pp. 63-97.
1997 “Introduction,” in Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, S. Stevens, editor, Washington D.C.: Island Press, pp. 1-7.
1997 “Introductions, Parts 1-4,” in Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, S. Stevens, editor, Washington D.C.: Island Press, pp. 9-11, 131-133, 189-191, 263-264.
1997 “The Legacy of Yellowstone,” in Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, S. Stevens, editor, Washington D.C.: Island Press, pp. 13-32.
1997 “Lessons and Directions,” in Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, S. Stevens, editor, Washington D.C.: Island Press, pp. 265-298.
1997 “New Alliances for Conservation,” in Conservation Through Cultural Survival: Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas, S. Stevens, editor, Washington D.C.: Island Press, pp. 33-62.
1993 “Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas:  New Approaches to Conservation in Highland Nepal,” (with Mingma Norbu Sherpa).  In Lawrence S. Hamilton, Daniel P. Bauer, and Helen F. Takeuchi, editors, Parks, Peaks, and People.  Honolulu:  East-West Center, pp. 73-88.

Selected Articles and other publications:

2010 Stevens, S. “Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and International Human Rights Law Through the Recognition of  ICCAs,” Policy Matters 17: 181-194.
2010 Stevens, S. “Review of Mark Dowie’s Conservation Refugees:the Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native People” Human Ecology 38 (3):459-461..
2008 “The Mount Everest Region as an ICCA: Sherpa Conservation Stewardship of the Khumbu Sacred Valley, Sagarmatha (Chomolungma/Mt. Everest) National Park and Buffer Zone.  57 pages. http://www.iccaforum.org/images/media/grd/mount_everest_nepal_report_icca_grassroots_discussions.pdf.
2008 “Nepal,” in IUCN WCPA/CEESP. 2008. A Survey of Legal and Policy Measures Related to Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs) in 21 Countries: Working Document for Comments.
2008 “Nepal: Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas (ICCA) National Legal Survey.”  19 pages. http://www.iccaforum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=84&Itemid=100
2003 “Tourism and Deforestation in the Mount Everest Region,” Geographical Journal, Vol. 169, No. 3, pp. 255-277.
2001 “Fieldwork as Commitment,” Geographical Review, Vol. 91, No. 1-2, pp. 66-73.  Invited essay in special issue on fieldwork.
1993 “Tourism, Change, and Continuity in the Mount Everest Region of Nepal,” Geographical Review, Vol. 83, No.4, pp. 410-427.
1991 “Sherpas, Tourism, and Cultural Change in Nepal’s Mount Everest Region,” Journal of Cultural Geography, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 39-58.
1986 “Inhabited National Parks:  Indigenous Peoples in Protected Landscapes,” Canberra City, Australia: East Kimberley Impact Assessment Project, Working Paper No. 10,  37 pp.