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.)

Ribot, Jesse. 1995. ‘Local Forest Control in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal: A Review and Critique of New Participatory Policies’, Forestry Sector Policy Report/Working Paper, Africa Technical Division of The World Bank, January. (Also translated into French.)

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

Ribot, Jesse. 1995. ‘The Causal Structure of Vulnerability: Its Application to Climate Impact Analysis’, GeoJournal, Vol. 35, No. 2.

Ribot, Jesse 1994. ‘Forestry Sector Policy Report: Burkina Faso’, Forestry Sector Policy Report, Africa Technical Division of The World Bank, September.

Ribot, Jesse 1994. ‘Forestry Sector Policy Report: Niger’, Forestry Sector Policy Report, Africa Technical Division of The World Bank, In-house report, September.

Ribot, Jesse 1994. ‘Forestry Sector Policy Report: The Gambia’, Review of Policies in the Traditional Energy Sector, Africa Technical Division of The World Bank, In-house report, December.

Ribot, Jesse. 1994. ‘From Exclusion to Participation: A History of Forest Access Control in Eastern Senegal’, Working Paper 187, History of Land Use Working Paper Series, African Studies Center, Boston University.

Ribot, Jesse 1993. ‘Exploring Rural Livelihoods, Population and Environmental Change’, Changing Cities, Publication of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Spring.

Ribot, Jesse. 1993. ‘Le Marché du Charbon: obstacle à la foresterie au Sénégal?’, Environnement Africain, No. 33-36, Vol. IX/1-4, special issue: ‘des forêts et des hommes: vers un gestion populaire du patrimoine commun’.

Ribot, Jesse. 1993. ‘Market-State Relations and Environmental Policy: Limits of State Capacity in Senegal’, in Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Ken Conca, eds., The State and Social Power in Global Environmental Politics. New York: Columbia University Press.

Ribot, Jesse. 1993. ‘Forestry Policy and Charcoal Production in Senegal’, Energy Policy, Vol. 21, No. 5.

Bergeret, Anne. and Jesse Ribot. 1990. L'Arbre Nourricier en Pays Sahéliens [The Nourishing Trees of the Sahel]. Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.

Ribot, Jesse. 1987. ‘Market Structure and Environmental Policy in Senegal's Charcoal Industry’, Report to ENDA-TM.

Milukas, Michael, Jesse Ribot and Peter Maxson. 1984. Djibouti Energy Initiatives: National Energy Assessment, USAID Project No. 603-0013, Volunteers in Technical Assistance, 450pp, August. (Also translated into French.)

Ribot, Jesse and Robert D. McConnell. 1983. ‘Testing and Analysis of a Heat-Pipe Solar Collector’, Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Vol. 105.