Highly cited (>50) co-authored publications:
- Walker B, Carpenter SR, Anderies J, Abel N, Cumming GS, Janssen MA, Lebel L, Norberg J, Peterson GD, Pritchard L. (2002). Resilience management in social-ecological systems: a working hypothesis for a participatory approach. Conservation Ecology 6(1): 14. (Abstract)
- Cash D, Adger W. N, Berkes F, Garden P, Lebel L, Olsson P, Pritchard L, and Young O. R. (2006). Scale and cross-scale dynamics: governance and information in a multi-level world. Ecology and Society.11: Article 8. (Abstract)
- Olsson P, Gunderson LH, Carpenter SR, Ryan P, Lebel L, Folke C, Holling CS. 2006. Shooting the rapids: navigating transitions to adaptive governance of social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society 11(1): 18. (Abstract)
- Lebel L, Anderies J. M, Campbell B, Folke C, Hatfield-Dodds S, Hughes T, and Wilson J. (2006). Governance and the capacity to manage resilience in regional social-ecological systems. Ecology and Society. 11(1): 11:19. (Abstract)
- van Kerkhoff L, and Lebel L. (2006). Linking knowledge and action for sustainable development. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 31:445-477. (Abstract)
- Lebel L, Garden P, and Imamura M. (2005). Politics of scale, position and place in the governance of water resources in the Mekong region. Ecology and Society. 10:18. (Abstract)
- Biermann F, Betsill M.M, Vieira S.C, Gupta J, Kanie N, Lebel L, Liverman D, Schroeder H, Siebenhuner B, Yanda P.Z, Zondervan R. (2010) Navigating the anthropocene: the Earth System Governance Project strategy paper. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 2, 202-208. (Abstract)
- Deutsch L, Gräslund S, Folke C, Troell M, Huitric M, Kautsky N, and Lebel L. (2007). Feeding aquaculture growth through globalization: exploitation of marine ecosystems for fishmeal. Global Environmental Change. 17:238-249. (Abstract)
- Biermann F., Abbott, K., Andresen, S., Bäckstrand, K., Bernstein, S., Betsill, M., Bulkeley, H, Cashore B, Clapp J, Folke C, Gupta A, Gupta J, Haas P, Jordan A, Kanie N, Kluvánková-Oravská T, Lebel L, Liverman D, Meadowcroft J, Mitchell R, Newell P, Oberthür S, Olsson L, Pattberg P, Sánchez-Rodríguez R, Schroeder H, Underdal A, Camargo Vieira S, Vogel C, Young O, Brock A, Zondervan Z. (2012) Navigating the anthropocene: Strengthening Earth System Governance. Science. 335:1306-1307. (Abstract)
- Huntjens P, Lebel L, Pahl-Wostl, C, Schulze R, Camkin J, Kranz N, (2012). Institutional design propositions for the governance of adaptation to climate change in the water sector. Global Environmental Change. 22(1), 67-81. (Abstract)
- Pahl-Wostl C, Lebel L, Knieper C, and Nikitina E. (2012). From applying panaceas to mastering complexity: Towards adaptive water governance in basins. Environmental Science and Policy. 23: 24-34. (Abstract)
- Lebel L, Tri N. H, Saengnoree A, Pasong S, Buatama U, and Thoa L. K. (2002). Industrial transformation and shrimp aquaculture in Thailand and Vietnam: pathways to ecological, social and economic sustainability? Ambio. 31:311-323. (Abstract)
- Linking Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services, and Human Well-Being: Three Challenges for Designing Research for Sustainability (Abstract)
- Lebel L, Grothmann T, and Siebenhüner B. (2010). The role of social learning in adaptiveness: insights from water management. International Environmental Agreements. 10:333-353. (Abstract)
- Lebel L, and S. Lorek. (2008). Enabling sustainable production-consumption systems. Annual Review of Environment & Resources. 33:241-275. (Abstract)
- Xu J, Lebel L, and Sturgeon J. C. (2009). Functional links between biodiversity, livelihoods and culture in a Hani swidden landscape in Southwest China. Ecology and Society. 14:20. (Abstract)
- Clark W, Van Kerkhoff C, Lebel L, Gallopin G. (2016) Crafting usable knowledge for sustainable development. PNAS 113, 4570-4578. (Abstract)