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.

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

Ribot, Jesse. 2002. "African Decentralization: Local Actors, Powers and Accountability", Democracy, Governance and Human Rights Paper No. 8. Geneva: UNRISD and IDRC. Pp. 32.

Ribot, Jesse. 2002. Democratic Decentralization of Natural Resources: Institutionalizing Popular Participation. Washington: World Resources Institute. [Also published in French and Spanish in 2004.]

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. 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. ‘Integral Local Development: ‘Accommodating Multiple Interests’ through Entrustment and Accountable Representation’, International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, Vol. 1, No. 3.

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. 2001. ‘Decentralization, Participation and Representation: Association and Indirect Rule in Sahelian Forestry’ in Pauline Peters, ed. Development Encounters: Sites of Participation and Knowledge. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

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. ‘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.