Ribot, Jesse. 2017. ‘Choose Democracy: Guidance for Democratizing through Natural Resource Management Interventions,’ a Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI) policy brief of the Swedish International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD) with CODESRIA, IUCN and University of Illinois [Also available in French 2018 as ‘Choisir la démocratie : la gestion des ressources naturelles pour les décideurs, bailleurs de fonds, et agents de terrain’].

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

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.

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.

Chari, Sharad, Susanne Friedberg, Vinay Gidwani, Jesse Ribot and Wendy Wolford (eds.). 2017. Other Geographies: The Influences of Michael Watts. London: John Wiley & Sons.

Ribot, Jesse. 2016. ‘RFGI Handbook I: Leveraging Local Democracy through Forestry’ Responsive Forest Governance Initiative Working Paper No. 34, Dakar: CODESRIA/ IUCN/ University of Illinois.

UIUC Final Report to RFGI

Ribot, Jesse. 2015. ‘Leveraging Local Democracy through Forestry.’ A Natural Resource Management Implementation Policy Brief and Handbook. Responsive Forest Governance Initiative, CODESRIA, IUCN and University of Illinois

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.

Agrawal, Arun and Jesse Ribot. 2014. “Are Ostrom’s Design Principles Sufficient for Design?” Policy Matters. Issue 19. Pp. 111-7.

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. “Farce of the Commons: Humor, Irony, and Subordination through a Camera’s Lens.” Research Report no. 2, International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD), Visby, Sweden.

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.

Ribot, Jesse. 2014. “Responsive Forest Governance Initiative (RFGI): A Research Update” Perspectives: Research Notes & News. Vol. 32, No. 1. See RESEARCH/RFGI page.

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.

Murombedzi, J., L. Magole, M. Hara, S. Turner, Jesse Ribot. 2013. “Managing African Commons: Defragmenting Management and Responsive Forest Governance Policy Forum” CODESRIA Bulletin, Nos. 3 & 4, 2013 Page 67.

Ribot, Jesse. 2013. “Choice, Recognition and the Democracy Effects of Decentralization” Ch. 4, Pp. 93-120 in Joakim Öjendal and Anki Dellnäs (eds.) The imperative of good local governance: Challenges for the next decade of decentralization. Tokyo: UNU Press.

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

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 and J. Ribot. 2012. “Assessing the Effectiveness of Democratic Accountability Mechanisms in Local Governance” Report commissioned for USAID by Management Systems International (MSI) Project No. 380000.12–500–03–11.

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.