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.

Murombedzi, James and Jesse Ribot. 2012. “Occupy Nature: Representation as the Basis of Emancipatory Environmentalism,” Vivre Autrement: La magazine des autres mondes possibles. ENDA 23 June 2012.

Ribot, Jesse. 2012. Choix, reconnaissance et effets de la décentralisationsur la démocratie. James Murombedzi, Jesse Ribot et Gretchen Walters (eds.) Document De Travail Du RFGI (5). CODESRIA: Dakar.

Ribot, Jesse. 2012. “Choix, Reconnaissance et Effets de la Décentralisation sur la Ribot, J. 2012. “Choix, Reconnaissance et Effets de la Décentralisation sur la Démocratie.” CODESRIA RFGI working paper series. [Translation and reprinting of 2011 Visby working paper below.]

Ribot, Jesse and Anne Larson. 2012. Reducing REDD risks: Affirmative policy on an uneven playing field. International Journal of the Commons Vol. 6, No. 2.

Poteete, Amy and Jesse Ribot. 2011. ‘Repertoires of Domination: Decentralization as Process in Botswana and Senegal’ World Development Vol. 39, No. 3.

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. ‘Participation Without Representation: Chiefs, Councils and Forestry Law in the West African Sahel’, in Andrea Cornwall (ed.) The Participation Reader. London: Zed Books. Reprinted from 1996. Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1.

Ribot, Jesse 2011. ‘Seeing REDD for Local Democracy: A Call for Democracy Standards’ Common Voices, Vol. 3, January 2011, pp. 14-16.

Ribot, Jesse. 2011. “Choice, Recognition and the Democracy Effects of Decentralization” Working Paper no. 5, International Center for Local Democracy, Visby, Sweden.

Ribot, Jesse. 2011. “Comment on ‘The Realities of Participatory Forest Management: Case Study Analyses from Tanzania, Mozambique, Laos and Vietnam’,” P. 193-195 in Irmeli Mustalahti (ed.) Footprints in Forests: Effects and Impacts of Finnish Forestry Assistance. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Finland.

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 and Anne M. Larson. 2011. ‘Reducing REDD Risks: Affirmative Policy on an Uneven Playing Field’, In T. Sikor & J. Stahl (eds.) 2011. Forests and People: Property, Governance, and Human Rights. London: Earthscan.

Larson, Anne M. and Jesse Ribot. 2010. “Lessons from Forestry Decentralisation,” Ch. 14, pp. 175-190 in Arild Angelsen (ed.) Realising REDD+: National strategy and policy options. Bogor: Cifor. http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/Knowledge/Publications/Detail?pid=2871. Also available in French.

Ribot, Jesse. 2010. ‘Authority over Forests: Recentralizing Benefits in Senegal’s Forestry Decentralization’ In Thomas Sikor and Christian Lund (eds.) Politics of Possession. Property, Authority, and Access to Natural Resources. London, Wiley-Blackwell. (First published in Development and Change. Vol. 40, No. 1. 2009)

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