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Alark Saxena is an Assistant Professor of Human Dimensions of Forestry at the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University. Alark is a forester turned social ecologist, a complex system scientist, and a systems modeler. Alark is interested in mainstreaming climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in the development processes of marginal communities across the world. He is currently focused on developing techniques for evaluating resilience to shocks and stressors particularly in developing countries. Alark is interested in the dynamics of coupled human-natural systems and is currently developing an integrated landscape and livelihood model for forest landscapes in the USA, India, and Turkey.
 
Alark research work is spread across the world. He has worked in South and Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, Western and Central Europe. In the Himalayas, Alark’s work is focused on developing indicators for transboundary flood resilience of communities living across the border between Nepal and India. He is working on understanding the impact of tourism on the local natural resources, culture, and livelihoods in the Sagarmatha National Park (Mt. Everest region) in Nepal. 

Before his current position, Alark served as the Program Director of Yale Himalaya Initiative. He directed the Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative at the Yale Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. His career in forestry started as the Project Coordinator in the Balaghat division of the MP Forest Department in India.