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.

Oyono, Rene Phil, Jesse C. Ribot and Anne M. Larson. 2006. Green and Black Gold in Rural Cameroon: Natural Resources for Local Governance, Justice and Sustainability. Working Paper No 22. Jesse Ribot (ed). World Resource Institute And Center for International Forestry Research: Washington.

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

Ribot, Jesse. 2006. ‘Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources: Institutionalizing Popular Participation’, Forestry Economics. Vol. 163, No. 2. [Chinese language journal published in Beijing, China—article composed in English and translated into Chinese.]

Ribot, Jesse. 2006. ‘Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources: Institutionalizing Popular Participation’, Forestry Economics. Vol. 163, No. 2. [Chinese language journal published in Beijing, China—article composed in English and translated into Chinese.]

Ribot, Jesse. 2006. ‘Choose Democracy: Environmentalists’ Socio-political Responsibility’, Global Environmental Change. Vol. 16.

Ribot, Jesse and René Oyono. July 2006. ‘Introduction: Decentralization and Livelihoods in Africa’, Africa Development Vol. XXXI, No. 2 in special issue ‘Implementing Progressive New Natural Resources Laws’ (Oyono and Ribot, guest eds.). Pp. 1-19.

Ribot, Jesse and René Oyono (eds). 2006. Special issue on Implementing Progressive New Natural Resources Laws. Africa Development Vol. XXXI, No. 2.

Ribot, Jesse, Arun Agrawal and Anne M. Larson. 2006. ‘Recentralizing While Decentralizing: How National Governments Reappropriate Forest Resources’, World Development. Vol. 34, No. 11. Pp. 1864-86.

Ribot, Jesse. 2005. ‘Décentralisation Démocratique des Ressources Naturelles: Choix Institutionnel et Transferts de Pouvoirs Discrétionnaires en Afrique Sub-Saharienne’, in Alain Bertrand, Pierre Montagne and Alain Karsenty, eds., L’Etat et les politiques forestières en Afrique francophone. Paris: Editions Karthala.

Ribot, Jesse. 2005. ‘Steering Community Driven Development? A Desk Study of NRM Choices’ draft report to the World Bank Natural Resources Thematic Group, 1 March. Made available as a WRI working paper in 2008

Ribot, Jesse 2005. ‘Choosing Representation: Institutions and Powers for Decentralized Natural Resource Management’, in Carol J. Pierce Colfer and Doris Capistrano, eds., The Politics of Decentralization: Forests, People and Power. London: Earthscan.

Ribot, Jesse. and Anne Larson (eds.). 2005. Decentralization through a Natural Resource Lens: Experience in Africa, Asia and Latin America. London: Frank Cass. Also published as a 2004 special issue of European Journal of Development Research. Vol. 16, No. 1.

Ribot, Jesse and René Oyono. 2005. ‘The Politics of Decentralization’ in Ben Wisner, Camila Toulmin and Rutendo Chitiga eds., Toward a New Map of Africa, London: Earthscan Press.

Thiaw, Sagane and Jesse Ribot. 2005. ‘Insiders Out: Forest Access through Village Chiefs in Senegal’, in Sandra Evers, Marja Spierenburg,. and Harry Wels eds. Competing Jurisdictions. Settling Land Claims in Africa and Madagascar. The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers’.

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.]

Larson, Anne and Jesse Ribot. 2004. ‘Democratic Decentralization through a Natural Resource Lens: An Introduction’, guest editors’ introduction to a special issue of European Journal of Development Research. Vol. 16, No. 1.

Ribot, Jesse. 2004. Waiting for Democracy: The Politics of Choice in Natural Resource Decentralizations. Washington: World Resources Institute. [Published in French in 2007.]

Xu, Jianchu and Jesse Ribot. 2004. ‘Decentralization and Accountability in Forest Management: Case From Yunnan, Southwest China’, European Journal of Development Research. Vol. 16, No. 1.

Ribot, Jesse. 2003. ‘Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources: A Lever for Local Democracy’ USAID Democracy and Governance Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 2.

Ribot, Jesse. 2003. ‘Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources: A Path to Popular Enfranchisement’ Adaptive Co-Management News. CIFOR.

Ribot, Jesse. 2003. ‘Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources: Institutional Choice and Discretionary Power Transfers in Sub-Saharan Africa’, Public Administration and Development. Vol. 23, No. 1.

Ribot, Jesse. 2003. ‘Transcending Tensions in Democratic Decentralization: Institutional Choice and Subsidiarity Principles’, Democracy Report, Vol. 9, No. 11.