| Liberation ecologies: environment, development and social movements R Peet, M Watts Routledge, 2004 | 4358* | 2004 |
| The dictionary of human geography. RJ Johnston The dictionary of human geography., 1981 | 3725 | 1981 |
| The dictionary of human geography D Gregory, R Johnston, G Pratt, M Watts, S Whatmore John Wiley & Sons, 2011 | 2564 | 2011 |
| Silent violence: Food, famine, and peasantry in northern Nigeria MJ Watts University of Georgia Press, 2013 | 2299 | 2013 |
| Violent environments NL Peluso, M Watts Cornell University Press, 2001 | 1654 | 2001 |
| The space of vulnerability: the causal structure of hunger and famine MJ Watts, HG Bohle Progress in human geography 17 (1), 43-67, 1993 | 1604 | 1993 |
| Climate change and social vulnerability: toward a sociology and geography of food insecurity HG Bohle, TE Downing, MJ Watts Global environmental change 4 (1), 37-48, 1994 | 1564 | 1994 |
| Resource curse? Governmentality, oil and power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria M Watts Geopolitics 9 (1), 50-80, 2004 | 1133 | 2004 |
| Living under contract: contract farming and agrarian transformation in sub-Saharan Africa PD Little, M Watts Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1994 | 1047 | 1994 |
| Globalising food: agrarian questions and global restructuring D Goodman, M Watts Psychology Press, 1997 | 977 | 1997 |
| Global political ecology R Peet, P Robbins, M Watts Routledge, 2010 | 849 | 2010 |
| Political ecology M Watts A companion to economic geography, 257-274, 2017 | 632 | 2017 |
| On the poverty of theory: natural hazards research in context M Watts Environment, 57-88, 2017 | 611 | 2017 |
| Reworking modernity: capitalisms and symbolic discontent A Pred, M Watts Rutgers University Press, 1992 | 610 | 1992 |
| Locating the political in political ecology: An introduction S Paulson, LL Gezon, M Watts Human organization 62 (3), 205-217, 2003 | 554 | 2003 |
| Development and governmentality M Watts Development, 515-544, 2017 | 537 | 2017 |
| Reconfiguring the rural or fording the divide?: Capitalist restructuring and the global agro‐food system D Goodman, M Watts The Journal of Peasant Studies 22 (1), 1-49, 1994 | 498 | 1994 |
| Manufacturing dissent: work, gender and the politics of meaning in a peasant society J Carney, M Watts Africa 60 (2), 207-241, 1990 | 473 | 1990 |
| Righteous oil? Human rights, the oil complex, and corporate social responsibility MJ Watts Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 30, 373-407, 2005 | 447 | 2005 |
| Life under contract: contract farming, agrarian restructuring, and flexible accumulation. MJ Watts | 435 | 1994 |
