Vulnerability and Climate Change

Erbaugh, J.T., Chang, C.H., Masuda, Y.J., Ribot, J. 2024. “Communication and Deliberation for Environmental Governance,” Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 49. https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-environ-112321-082450.

Ribot, Jesse. 2023. “Access Failure: Deep Explanation of Climate-Related Crises,” Chapter in Oxford University Press Handbook on Land Politics, Jun Borras and Jennifer Franco (eds.). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197618646.001.0001

Turner, Matthew, Soumaila Abdoulaye Sambo, Jesse Ribot and Papa Faye. 2023. “The causal nexus of Trans-Saharan migration: A political ecology approach from Niger,” Geoforum 144(103792): 1-13.

Cottier, Fabien, Marie-Laurence Flahaux, Jesse Ribot, Richard Seager, Godfreyb Ssekajja. 2022. “Re-framing the Frame: Cause and Effect in Climate-related Migration,” World Development. Published Online 6 July 2022. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002066?dgcid=author

Lahsen, Myanna and Jesse Ribot. 2022. “How we frame the climate crisis matters,” Wire Climate Change. Final Submitted 14 Jan 2022. See: https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/how-we-frame-the-climate-crisis-matters/. Also see citation in https://e360.yale.edu/features/its-not-just-climate-are-we-ignoring-other-causes-of-disasters?s=03 or https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/how-we-frame-the-climate-crisis-matters/.

Ribot, Jesse. 2022. "Violent Silence: Framing out Social Causes of Climate-related Crises," Journal of Peasant Studies. Vol. 49, No. 4, Pp. 683-712.

Turner, Matthew, Jesse Ribot and Oumarou Moumouni. 2022. “Suffering for dignity and hope: Young Nigeriens choose perilous Trans-Saharan migration” Journal of Peasant Studies. Accepted August 2022. Published online 18 October 2022.

Kashwan, Prakash and Jesse Ribot. 2021. “Violent Silence: Erasing History and Justice in Global Climate Negotiations & Action.” Current History. November Issue: 326-331.

Lahsen, Myanna and Jesse Ribot. 2021. “Politics of Attributing Extreme Events and Disasters to Climate Change.” WIREs Climate Change. Available at: https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.750

Peluso, Nancy Lee and Jesse Ribot. 2019. Postscript for Special Issue on “A Theory of Access,” Society & Natural Resources, Vol. 33, No. 3.

Ribot, Jesse, Papa Faye and Matthew Turner. 2020. “Climate of Anxiety in the Sahel: Emigration in Xenophobic Times,” Public Culture. 32(1):45-75.

Ribot, Jesse. 2019. “Social Causality of our Common Climate Crisis: Toward a Sociodicy for the Anthropocene,” Ch. 2, pp. 35-53 in Tobias Haller, Thomas Breu, Tine De Moor, Christian Rohr and Heinzpeter Znoj (eds.) The Commons in a Glocal World: Global Connections and Local Responses. London: Routledge.

Turner, Matthew D. and Molly S. Teague. 2019. Trans-Saharan labour emigration from Niger: Local governance as mediator of its underlying causes and consequences. Working Paper No 16, International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD). Visby, Sweden.

Stephan Hochleithner and Andreas Exner. 2018. Outmigration, Development, and Global Environmental Change: A Review and Discussion of Case Studies from the West African Sahel. Working Paper NO 15. ICLD Working Paper Series.

Stephan Hochleithner and Andreas Exner. 2018. Local Government and Migration: A Review of Literature and Media Narratives with focus on West African Sahel. Working Paper NO 13. ICLD Working Paper Series.

Stephan Hochleithner and Andreas Exner. 2018. Theories of Migration in and from Rural Sub-Saharan Africa: Review and Critique of Current Literature. Working Paper NO 14. ICLD Working Paper Series.

Ribot, Jesse. 2018. “Ontologies of Occlusion in the Anthropocene.” This is a response to: Bauer, A. M. and Ellis, E. C. 2018. "The Anthropocene divide: obscuring understanding of social-environmental change." Current Anthropology 59(2). Go to the link for this article and scroll down to read my 'response'

Ece, Melis, James Murombedzi and Jesse Ribot (eds.). 2017. “Disempowering Democracy: Local Representation in Community and Carbon Forestry in Africa,” Conservation and Society. 15(4): 357-370. Special Issue on Rights, Representation and REDD+. This is a collection of seven articles from seven researchers in the five-year thirteen-country thirty-five case study comparative research program the Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI). More details under RESEARCH/RFGI tabs.

Faye, Papa and Jesse Ribot. 2017. “Causes for Adaptation: Access to Forests, Markets and Representation in Eastern Senegal” Sustainability. Vol. 9, No. 311. Pp. 20.

Ramprasad, Vijay, Jesse Ribot and Ashwini Chhatre. 2017. Pertinent Issue, Flawed Methods. 9 December 2017 vol. LII no. 49 Economic & Political Weekly.

Ribot, Jesse. 2017. “Vulnerability does not Fall from the Sky: Addressing a Risk Conundrum,” in R. Kasperson, K. Dow, and N. Pidgeon (eds.), Risk Conundrums: Solving Unsolvable Problems. London: Earthscan.

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. 2017. “Causa y responsabilidad: vulnerabilidad y clima en el Antropoceno” Acta Sociológica. No. 73, pp. 13-81. Spanish translation of Ribot 2014.

Wisner, Ben, Mark Pelling, Adolfo Mascarenhas, Ailsa Holloway, Babacar Ndong, Papa Faye, Jesse Ribot and David Simon. 2015. “Small Cities and Towns in Africa: The Challenge and Opportunity of Climate Change” Ch. 5 in Pauleit, S., Jorgensen, G., Kabisch, S., Gasparini, P., Fohlmeister, S., Simonis, I.,Yeshitela, K., Coly, A., Lindley, S., Kombe, W.J. (Eds.) Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa. New York: Springer.

Ribot, Jesse. 2014. “Cause and Response: Climate Vulnerability in the Anthropocene” Journal of Peasant Studies. Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 667-705.

Ribot, Jesse. 2014. “Politics of Misrecognition – Framing out Liability under a Changing Sky” Response to Ben Orlove,
 Heather Lazrus, Grete K. Hovelsrud, Alessandra Giannini. 2014. “Recognitions and Responsibilities: On the Origins and Consequences of the Uneven Attention to Climate Change around the World” Current Anthropology, 55(3), pp. 249-75. Scroll down to my comment.

van Ruijven, Bas J. ; Marc Levy; Arun Agrawal; Frank Biermann; Joern Birkmann; Timothy R. Carter; Kristie L. Ebi; Matthias Garschagen; Bryan Jones; Roger Jones; Eric Kemp-Benedict; Marcel Kok; Kasper Kok; Maria Carmen Lemos; Paul L. Lucas; Ben Orlove; Shonali Pachauri; Tom Parris; Anand Patwardhan; Arthur Petersen; Benjamin L. Preston; Jesse Ribot; Dale S. Rothman; and Vanessa J. Schweizer. 2014. “Enhancing the relevance of new scenarios for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research” Climate Change. Vol. 122, pp. 481-94.

Ribot, Jesse. 2013. “Vulnerability does not just fall from the Sky: Toward Multi-scale Pro- poor Climate Policy” in M.R. Redclift & M. Grasso, eds., Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. With preface titled “Cause and Blame in the Anthropocene – Vulnerability still does not just fall from the sky” [Reprint of Ribot 2010 with new forward and minor updates.] Pp. 164-199.

Agrawal, Arun, Maria Carmen Lemos, Ben Orlove and Jesse Ribot. 2012. ‘Cool Heads for a Hot World – Social Sciences under a Changing Sky’ Global Environmental Change. Vol. 22, No. 2.

Marino, Elizabeth and Jesse Ribot (special issue editors). 2012. Special issue introduction “Adding Insult to Injury: Climate Change, Social Stratification, and the Inequities of Intervention” Global Environmental Change. Vol. 22, No. 2.

Marino, Elizabeth and Jesse Ribot (eds). 2012. Special issue on Adding Insult to Injury: Climate Change, Social Stratification, and the Inequities of Intervention. Global Environmental Change. Vol. 22, No. 2. The URL here is just the introduction. See link for rest of volume.

Ribot, Jesse. 2011. Keynote Address “From Impacts to Vulnerability,” pp 87-96 in A Drylands Call for Action – Declaration of Fortaleza, Proceedings of ICID2010. Center for Strategic Studies and Management, Brasilia, Brazil.

Ribot, Jesse. 2011. ‘Vulnerability before Adaptation: Toward Transformative Climate Action’ From Affirmative to Transformative Climate Action’ Global Environmental Change, Vol. 21, No. 4.

Ribot, Jesse. 2010. ‘Building Climate Resilience: Local Governments on the Frontline’ [a title that the publisher invented]. Pp. 28-32 in Pursuing the MDGs through Local Government, preparatory notes for the Global Forum on Local Development, Kampala, Uganda, 4-6

Ribot, Jesse. 2010. “Vulnerability does not fall from the sky: Toward multi-scale pro-poor climate policy,” in Robin Mearns and Andrew Norton (eds.), Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Equity and Vulnerability in a Warming World. Washington, DC: The World Bank.

Sikor, Thomas, Johannes Stahl, Thomas Enters, Jesse Ribot, Neera Singh, William D. 2010. "REDD-plus, forest people’s rights and nested climate governance," Global Environmental Change 20 (2010) 423–5.

Ribot, Jesse, Adil Najam and Gabrielle Watson. 2009. “Climate Variation, Vulnerability and Sustainable Development in the Semi-Arid Tropics,” Ch. 8, pp. 117-160 in E. Lisa F. Schipper and Ian Burton, eds., The Earthscan Reader on Adaptation to Climate Change. London: Earthscan. [Reprint of Ribot, Najam and Waston 1996.].

Suarez, Pablo, Jesse Ribot and Anthony G. Patt. 2009. ‘Climate Information, Equity and Vulnerability Reduction’ in Matthias Ruth and Maria E. Ibarraran (Eds.) The Distributional Effects of Climate Change: Social and Economic Implications. Submitted to: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Clark, William C., Jill Jäger, Robert Corell, Roger Kasperson, James J. McCarthy, David Cash, Stewart J. Cohen, Nancy Dickson, Paul Epstein, David H. Guston, Carlo Jaeger, Anthony Janetos, Neil Leary, Marc A. Levy, Amy Luers, Michael McCracken, Jerry Melillo, Richard Moss, Edward AA. Parson, Jesse Ribot, Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber, George A. Seielstad, Eileen Shea, Coleen Vogel, Thomas J. Wilbanks. 2001. ‘Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Risks’, Working Paper of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Ribot, Jesse. 1996. ‘Climate Variability, Climate Change and Vulnerability: Moving Forward by Looking Back’, Introduction to Ribot, Magalhães and Panagides, eds., Climate Change and Variation in Semi-Arid Lands: Social Vulnerability and Policy Response. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ribot, Jesse, Adil Najam and Gabrielle Watson. 1996. ‘Vulnerability, Climatic Variability and Sustainable Development in Semi-Arid Regions’, in Ribot, Magalhães and Panagides, eds., Climate Change and Variation in Semi-Arid Lands: Social Vulnerability and Policy Response. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ribot, Jesse, Antonio Rocha Magalhães and Stahis Panagides (eds.). 1996. Climate Change, Climate Variability and Social Vulnerability in the Semi-Arid Tropics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ribot, Jesse. 1995. ‘The Causal Structure of Vulnerability: Its Application to Climate Impact Analysis’, GeoJournal, Vol. 35, No. 2.