Ribot, Jesse. 2000. ‘Forest Rebellion and Local Authority in Makacoulibantang, Eastern Senegal’. in Charles Zerner (ed.), People, Plants and Justice. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ribot, Jesse. 2000. ‘La Gouvernance Environnementale et la Decentralisation’ in Info-Environnement: Antenne Pour la Reconnaissance de l’Environnement au Congo, No. 69, 3.

Ribot, Jesse. 2000. ‘Turning Senegal's Forestry Policy Around (From Exclusion to Participation?)’, Ch. 10 in Reginald Cline-Cole and Clare Madge, eds., Contesting Forestry in West Africa. [Reprint of shortened 1996 World Development article.]

Agrawal, Arun and Jesse Ribot. 1999. "Accountability in Decentralization: A Framework with South Asian and West African Cases", Journal of Developing Areas, Vol. 33.

Agrawal, Arun, Jesse C. Ribot. 1999. Analyzing Decentralization: A Frame Work with South Asian and East African Environmetal Cases. Working Paper No 1, Introduction. Jesse Ribot and Peter G. Veit (eds.) World Resource Institute: Washington. [Also published in The Journal of Developing Areas Vol. 33, Summer 1999, pp. 473-502.]

Lippman, Harrold, Robert Charlick, Jesse Ribot and Robert Groelsema. 1999. ‘Democracy and Governance Cross Sectoral Linkages: Case Study of USAID/Guinea’, for USAID.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. Accountable Representation and Power in Participatory and Decentralized Environmental Management, Unasylva, Vol. 50.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. ‘Decentralization, Participation and Accountability in Sahelian Forestry: Legal Instruments of Central Political-Administrative Control’, Africa, Vol. 69, No.1. Also updated and reprinted as ‘Representation and Accountability in Decentralized Sahelian Forestry: Legal Instruments of Central Political-Administrative Control’, in the Georgetown Journal of International Environmental Law, Vol. XII, Issue 2, Winter 2000. Please write author for copies.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. ‘Institutions, Governance and Natural Resource Management’, Framework Paper for World Resources Institute conference on Institutions and Governance in Natural Resource Management, February.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. ‘Integral Rural Development: Authority, Accountability and Entrustment in Decentralized Natural Resource Management’, Africa Technical Division Working Paper, The World Bank, January.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. ‘Managing Sahelian Forests’, Innovations, Vol. 6, No. 2.

Ribot, Jesse. 1999. ‘A History of Fear: Imagining Deforestation in the West African Sahel’, Global Ecology and Biogeography, Vol. 8.

Ribot, Jesse. 1998. ‘A Political Economy of Cooperative Law Reform in Mali: The State is the Best Hen’, Report to Management Systems International and U.S. Agency for International Development/Mali.

Ribot, Jesse. 1998. ‘Participatory Eco-Development and Local Development Funds: Some Comments on Policies’, Meeting on Policy Development, UNCDF Task Force on Local Development Funds and Eco-Development, 11-12, May Murten, Switzerland.

Ribot, Jesse. 1998. ‘Theorizing Access: Forest Profits along Senegal's Charcoal Commodity Chain’, Development and Change, Vol. 29, No. 2.

Ribot, Jesse. 1998. ‘United Nations Capital Development Fund: The Way Forward’, Chapter on future directions of UNCDF for 1998 Task Force on Participatory Eco-Development and Local Development Funds, 29 May 1998.

Ribot, Jesse. 1998. ‘Rebellion, Representation and Enfranchisement in the Forest Villages of Makacoulibantang, Eastern Senegal’, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Working Paper Series, No. 98.07.

Ribot, Jesse and Reginald Cline-Cole. 1998. ‘Forestry Policy, West Africa’, in John Middleton, ed., The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons Reference Books.

Ribot, Jesse. 1997. ‘Critique of Proposed `Forest Act' of The Gambia’, Africa Regional Division of The World Bank, February.

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. 1996. ‘Participation Without Representation: Chiefs, Councils and Forestry Law in the West African Sahel’, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 40-4. (Reproduced as a signature piece in Encyclopedia Perseus Africana. New York: Perseus. And republished in “The Participation Reader” London: Zed Books. 2011.)

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. ‘From Exclusion to Participation: Turning Senegal's Forestry Policy Around?’ World Development, Vol. 23, No. 9.

Ribot, Jesse. 1995. ‘Local Forest Access Control in Senegal: Toward Participatory Forestry Policies’, Forestry Sector Policy Report/Working Paper, Technical Division of The World Bank, January. (Also translated into French.)