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.

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.