| Conflict transformation in Central Asia: irrigation disputes in the Ferghana Valley C Bichsel Routledge, 2009 | 199 | 2009 |
| Water, infrastructure and political rule: Introduction to the special issue J Obertreis, T Moss, P Mollinga, C Bichsel Water Alternatives 9 (2), 2016 | 121 | 2016 |
| Water and the (infra-) structure of political rule: a synthesis. C Bichsel Water Alternatives 9 (2), 2016 | 70 | 2016 |
| Liquid challenges: contested water in Central Asia C Bichsel Sustainable Dev. L. & Pol'y 12, 24, 2011 | 63 | 2011 |
| In search of harmony:: repairing infrastructure and social relations in the Ferghana Valley C Bichsel Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia, 135-148, 2020 | 42 | 2020 |
| Natural resource institutions in transformation: The tragedy and glory of the private. C Bichsel, G Fokou, A Ibraimova, K Ulan, B Steimann, S Thieme Geographica Bernensia 5, 255-269, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| Linkages between sub-national and international water conflicts: the Eastern Nile Basin SA Mason, T Hagmann, C Bichsel, E Ludi, Y Arsano Facing global environmental change: Environmental, human, energy, food …, 2009 | 40 | 2009 |
| " Should I buy a cow or a TV?": Reflections on the conceptuel framework of the NCCR North-South, based on a comparative study of international labour migration in Mexico, India … C Bichsel, S Hostettler, B Strasser NCCR North-South, 2005 | 26 | 2005 |
| “The Drought Does Not Cause Fear” Irrigation history in Central Asia through James C. Scott’s lenses C Bichsel Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest 43 (1), 73-108, 2012 | 20 | 2012 |
| IWRM and the politics of scale: rescaling water governance in Uzbekistan A Zinzani, C Bichsel Water 10 (3), 281, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| From dry hell to blossoming garden: metaphors and poetry in Soviet irrigation literature on the Hungry Steppe, 1950–1980 C Bichsel Water History 9, 337-359, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Dangerous Divisions Irrigation Disputes and Conflict Transformation in the Ferghana Valley C Bichsel Verlag nicht ermittelbar, 2006 | 11 | 2006 |
| It's about more water. Natural resource conflicts in central Asia C Bichsel, D Péclard Swisspeace Conference papers, 32-40, 2009 | 10 | 2009 |
| Introduction: Infrastructure on/off Earth C Bichsel Roadsides 3, 1-6, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Violence as a human condition: Recent contributions from the German social sciences C Bichsel Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35 (3), 550-560, 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
| Dangerous divisions: Peace-building in the borderlands of post-Soviet Central Asia C Bichsel Violence on the margins: States, conflict, and borderlands, 145-165, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| When things fall from the sky: Understanding rocket stages on the Kazakh Steppe as Imperial Debris C Bichsel Environment and Planning D: Society and Space Magazine, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Trickling down or spilling over? Exploring links between international and sub-national water conflicts in the Eastern Nile and Syr Daria Basin SA Mason, C Bichsel, T Hagmann Proceedings of the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Workshop Geography …, 2003 | 4 | 2003 |
| Trickling-Down or Spilling-Over? S Mason, C Bichsel, T Hagmann Exploring the links between international and sub-national water conflicts …, 2003 | 3 | 2003 |
| Towards a research agenda on steppe imaginaries in Russia and the Soviet Union E Filep, C Bichsel Geography, Environment, Sustainability 11 (3), 39-48, 2018 | 2 | 2018 |
