Charcoal/Forests: Access and Commodity Chains

Ribot, Jesse and Nancy Lee Peluso. 2023. "Une théorie de l’accès," Revue Française de Socio-Économie 1(30): 189-218. [See Ribot and Peluso 2003 for English Version.]

Peluso, Nancy and Jesse Ribot. 2020. Postscript for Special Issue on “A Theory of Access,” Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 33, No. 2. Pp. 300-306.

Ribot, Jesse. 2017. The Business of Sustainable Development, An African Forest Tale (an Ode to the Lorax). Book in search of publisher.

Ribot, Jesse. 1997. ‘An Ode to the Lorax: The Business of Sustainable Development, An African Forest Tale’, Africa Today, Vol. 44, No. 2. Reprinted in Lokayan Bulletin (New Delhi), Vol. 13, No. 3, 1997. Reprinted in Medicine and Global Survival, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1998

Ribot, Jesse and Nancy Peluso. 2017. “Uma Teoria do Acesso,” Pp. 117-152 in Sandro Dutra, Silva Doris Sayago, Fabiano Toni, and Francisco Itami Campos (eds.) Ensaios em Ciências Ambientais: Crises, riscos e racionalidades. Brasilia: Editora Garamond Ltda. Translation of Ribot and Peluso 2003 article in Rural Sociology.

Ribot, Jesse. 2013. Forward to Jin Sato (ed) Governance of Natural Resources: Uncovering the Social Purpose of Materials in Nature. Tokyo: UNU Press.

Xu, Xiuli, Ting Zuo, Tianlai Gou, Gubo Qi, Ribot, J. 2010. "Access Matters: The Little Man with the Big Stone: A commodity chain analysis on the case of Chinese fir in P County, Hunan Province, China" China Policy Institute, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, The University of Nottingham, Discussion Paper 62.

Ribot, Jesse. 2009. ‘Authority Over Forests: Recentralizing Benefits in Senegal’s Forestry Decentralization’ Development and Change. Vol. 40, No. 1.

Ribot, Jesse. 2009. ‘Analysis of Senegal’s Draft Forestry Code: With Special Attention to its Support for Decentralization Laws’. Report to International Resources Group (IRG), Washington, DC, For USAID, Senegal, October 2009.

Ribot, Jesse. 2009. ‘Analysis of Senegal’s Draft Forestry Code: With Special Attention to its Support for Decentralization Laws’. Report to International Resources Group (IRG), Washington, DC, For USAID, Senegal, October 2009.

Ribot, Jesse. 2009. “Forestry and Democratic Decentralization in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Rough Review” Ch. 2 in Laura A. German, Alain Karsenty and Anne-Marie Tiani (eds.) Governing Africa’s Forests in a Globalized World. London: Earthscan. Pp. 29-55. Also available in French.

Ribot, Jesse. 2008. ‘Authority over Forests: Negotiating Democratic Decentralization in Senegal’, Representation, Equity and Environment Working Paper Series (formerly
‘Environmental Governance in Africa’ Working Paper Series) Paper No. 36.

Oyono, Phil René, Jesse Ribot and Anne M. Larson. 2006. ‘Green and Black Gold in Rural Cameroon : Natural Resources for Local Governance, Justice and Sustainability’. Environmental Governance in Africa Working Paper series, Paper No. 22, Washington: WRI.

Ribot , Jesse. 2006. “Analyse de la filière Charbon de Bois au Sénégal : Recommandations” World Resources Institute, Representation, Equity and Environment Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 37.

Ribot , Jesse. 2006. “Analyse de la filière Charbon de Bois au Sénégal : Recommandations” World Resources Institute, Representation, Equity and Environment Working Paper Series, Working Paper No. 37.

Ribot, Jesse. 2006. ‘Analyse de la filière Charbon de Bois au Sénégal: Recommandations’ Policy

Bertrand, Alain, Jesse Ribot and Pierre Montagne. 2004. ‘Historical Origins of Deforestation and Forestry Policy in French-speaking Africa: from Superstition to Reality?’ in Didier Babin, ed., Beyond Tropical Deforestation: From Tropical Deforestation to Forest Cover Dynamics and forest Development. Paris: UNESCO/CIRAD. [First published as: 2001. ‘Origines historiques de la déforestation et politiques forestières en Afrique francophone: de la peur incantatoire à la réalité?’ in Alain Bertrand and Pierre Montagne, eds., De la Déforestation aux Dynamiques Forestières. Paris: CIRAD.]

Ribot, Jesse and Nancy Lee Peluso. 2003. ‘A Theory of Access: Putting Property and Tenure in Place’. Rural Sociology. Vol. 68.

Ribot, Jesse. 2001. Book Review of James Fairhead and Melissa Leach. 1998. Reframing Deforestation. London: Routledge Press. In Development and Change, Vol. 32, No. 1.

Ribot, Jesse. 2001. ‘Science, Use Rights and Exclusion: A History of Forestry in Francophone West Africa’, Drylands Programme Issue Paper No. 104, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). (Also translated into French.)

Ribot, Jesse. 2000. ‘La Gouvernance Environnementale et la Decentralisation’ in Info-Environnement: Antenne Pour la Reconnaissance de l’Environnement au Congo, No. 69, 3.

Ribot, Jesse. 2000. ‘Turning Senegal's Forestry Policy Around (From Exclusion to Participation?)’, Ch. 10 in Reginald Cline-Cole and Clare Madge, eds., Contesting Forestry in West Africa. [Reprint of shortened 1996 World Development article.]

Ribot, Jesse. 2000. Book Review of John Schelas and Russell Greenberg (eds). 1996. Forest Patches in Tropical Landscapes. Washington: Island Press. In Development and Change Vol. 31, No. 5.

Ribot, Jesse. 2000. ‘Forest Rebellion and Local Authority in Makacoulibantang, Eastern Senegal’. in Charles Zerner (ed.), People, Plants and Justice. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ribot, Jesse. 2000. ‘Decentralization, Participation and Accountability in Sahelian Forestry: Legal Instruments of Political-Administrative Control’, Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics Working Papers, No. WP 00-5, Institute of International Studies, UC, Berkeley. Also published in an earlier 1998 version as ‘Decentralization and Participation in Sahelian Forestry: Legal Instruments of Central Political-Administrative Control’, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Working Paper Series, No. 98.06.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. ‘Institutions, Governance and Natural Resource Management’, Framework Paper for World Resources Institute conference on Institutions and Governance in Natural Resource Management, February.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. ‘Decentralization, Participation and Accountability in Sahelian Forestry: Legal Instruments of Central Political-Administrative Control’, Africa, Vol. 69, No.1. Also updated and reprinted as ‘Representation and Accountability in Decentralized Sahelian Forestry: Legal Instruments of Central Political-Administrative Control’, in the Georgetown Journal of International Environmental Law, Vol. XII, Issue 2, Winter 2000. Please write author for copies.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. ‘Managing Sahelian Forests’, Innovations, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. ‘A History of Fear: Imagining Deforestation in the West African Sahel’, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 8.

Ribot, Jesse. 1998. ‘Theorizing Access: Forest Profits along Senegal's Charcoal Commodity Chain’, Development and Change, Vol. 29, No. 2.

Ribot, Jesse. 1998. ‘Rebellion, Representation and Enfranchisement in the Forest Villages of Makacoulibantang, Eastern Senegal’, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Working Paper Series, No. 98.07.

Ribot, Jesse and Reginald Cline-Cole. 1998. ‘Forestry Policy, West Africa’, in John Middleton, ed., The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Reference Books.

Ribot, Jesse. 1997. ‘Critique of Proposed `Forest Act' of The Gambia’, Africa Regional Division of The World Bank, February.

Ribot, Jesse. 1996. ‘Participation Without Representation: Chiefs, Councils and Forestry Law in the West African Sahel’, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 40-4. (Reproduced as a signature piece in Encyclopedia Perseus Africana. New York: Perseus. And republished in “The Participation Reader” London: Zed Books. 2011.)

Ribot, Jesse. 1995. ‘Local Forest Control in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal: A Review and Critique of New Participatory Policies’, Forestry Sector Policy Report/Working Paper, Africa Technical Division of The World Bank, January. (Also translated into French.)

Ribot, Jesse. 1995. ‘From Exclusion to Participation: Turning Senegal's Forestry Policy Around?’ World Development, Vol. 23, No. 9.

Ribot, Jesse. 1995. ‘Local Forest Control in Mali: An Institutional Analysis of Participatory Policies’, Forestry Sector Policy Report/Working Paper, Africa Technical Division of The World Bank, January. (Also translated into French.)

Ribot, Jesse. 1995. ‘Local Forest Access Control in Senegal: Toward Participatory Forestry Policies’, Forestry Sector Policy Report/Working Paper, Technical Division of The World Bank, January. (Also translated into French.)

Ribot, Jesse 1994. ‘Forestry Sector Policy Report: Niger’, Forestry Sector Policy Report, Africa Technical Division of The World Bank, In-house report, September.

Ribot, Jesse 1994. ‘Forestry Sector Policy Report: The Gambia’, Review of Policies in the Traditional Energy Sector, Africa Technical Division of The World Bank, In-house report, December.

Ribot, Jesse. 1994. ‘From Exclusion to Participation: A History of Forest Access Control in Eastern Senegal’, Working Paper 187, History of Land Use Working Paper Series, African Studies Center, Boston University.

Ribot, Jesse 1994. ‘Forestry Sector Policy Report: Burkina Faso’, Forestry Sector Policy Report, Africa Technical Division of The World Bank, September.

Ribot, Jesse 1993. ‘Exploring Rural Livelihoods, Population and Environmental Change’, Changing Cities, Publication of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Spring.

Ribot, Jesse. 1993. ‘Market-State Relations and Environmental Policy: Limits of State Capacity in Senegal’, in Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Ken Conca, eds., The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ribot, Jesse. 1993. ‘Le Marché du Charbon: obstacle à la foresterie au Sénégal?’, Environnement Africain, No. 33-36, Vol. IX/1-4, special issue: ‘des forêts et des hommes: vers un gestion populaire du patrimoine commun’.

Ribot, Jesse. 1993. ‘Forestry Policy and Charcoal Production in Senegal’, Energy Policy, Vol. 21, No. 5.

Bergeret, Anne. and Jesse Ribot. 1990. L'Arbre Nourricier en Pays Sahéliens [The Nourishing Trees of the Sahel]. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.

Ribot, Jesse. 1987. ‘Market Structure and Environmental Policy in Senegal's Charcoal Industry’, Report to ENDA-TM.