| Liberation ecologies: environment, development and social movements R Peet, M Watts Routledge, 2004 | 3307* | 2004 |
| The dictionary of human geography RJ Johnston, D Gregory, DM Smith The dictionary of human geography. Second edition., 1986 | 3020 | 1986 |
| Silent violence: Food, famine, and peasantry in northern Nigeria MJ Watts University of Georgia Press, 2013 | 1747 | 2013 |
| The dictionary of human geography D Gregory, R Johnston, G Pratt, M Watts, S Whatmore John Wiley & Sons, 2011 | 1391 | 2011 |
| Violent environments NL Peluso, M Watts Cornell University Press, 2001 | 1222 | 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 | 1180 | 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 | 1089 | 1994 |
| Globalising food: agrarian questions and global restructuring D Goodman, M Watts Psychology Press, 1997 | 802 | 1997 |
| Living under contract: contract farming and agrarian transformation in sub-Saharan Africa PD Little, M Watts Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1994 | 750 | 1994 |
| Resource curse? Governmentality, oil and power in the Niger Delta, Nigeria M Watts Geopolitics 9 (1), 50-80, 2004 | 688 | 2004 |
| Nourishing networks: alternative geographies of food S Whatmore, L Thorne Reading Economic Geography, 235, 1997 | 663 | 1997 |
| The dissenters: from the Reformation to the French Revolution MR Watts Oxford University Press, 1985 | 550 | 1985 |
| Geographies of global change: remapping the world in the late twentieth century MJ Watts | 505* | 1995 |
| Global political ecology R Peet, P Robbins, M Watts Routledge, 2010 | 491 | 2010 |
| Reworking modernity: Capitalisms and symbolic discontent A Pred, M Watts Rutgers University Press, 1992 | 475 | 1992 |
| On the poverty of theory: natural hazards research in context M Watts Environment, 57-88, 2017 | 419 | 2017 |
| Development and governmentality M Watts Singapore journal of tropical geography 24 (1), 6-34, 2003 | 407 | 2003 |
| Political ecology M Watts A companion to economic geography 257, 274, 2000 | 400 | 2000 |
| 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 | 382 | 1994 |
| Locating the political in political ecology: An introduction S Paulson, LL Gezon, M Watts Human organization, 205-217, 2003 | 381 | 2003 |