| Tourism as a local development strategy in South Africa T Binns, E Nel Geographical Journal 168 (3), 235-247, 2002 | 561 | 2002 |
| Local economic development: A review and assessment of its current status in South Africa E Nel Urban studies 38 (7), 1003-1024, 2001 | 321 | 2001 |
| Local economic development in the developing world: The experience of Southern Africa EL Nel, CM Rogerson Transaction Publishers, 2005 | 210 | 2005 |
| Beyond the development impasse: the role of local economic development and community self-reliance in rural South Africa T Binns, E Nel The Journal of Modern African Studies 37 (3), 389-408, 1999 | 192 | 1999 |
| The geography of edible insects in sub‐Saharan Africa: A study of the mopane caterpillar P Illgner, E Nel Geographical Journal 166 (4), 336-351, 2000 | 174 | 2000 |
| Africa: Diversity and development T Binns, E Nel, A Dixon Routledge, 2012 | 122 | 2012 |
| Learning from the people: participatory rural appraisal, geography and rural development in the ‘new’South Africa T Binns, T Hill, E Nel Applied Geography 17 (1), 1-9, 1997 | 118 | 1997 |
| Place marketing, tourism promotion, and community based local economic development in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of Still Bay—The “Bay of Sleeping Beauty” E Nel, T Binns Urban Affairs Review 38 (2), 184-208, 2002 | 117 | 2002 |
| Regional and local economic development in South Africa: The experience of the Eastern Cape EL Nel Routledge, 2019 | 116 | 2019 |
| South Africa, past, present and future: Gold at the end of the Rainbow? A Lester, EL Nel, T Binns Pearson Education, 2000 | 115 | 2000 |
| The contested trajectory of applied local economic development in South Africa E Nel, CM Rogerson Local Economy 31 (1-2), 109-123, 2016 | 108 | 2016 |
| Water shortage, deforestation and development: South Africa's Working for Water programme JA Binns, PM Illgner, EL Nel Land Degradation & Development 12 (4), 341-355, 2001 | 107 | 2001 |
| Initiating'developmental local government'in South Africa: evolving local economic development policy E Nel, T Binns Regional Studies 35 (4), 355-362, 2001 | 96 | 2001 |
| Devolving development: integrated development planning and developmental local government in post-apartheid South Africa T Binns, E Nel Regional studies 36 (8), 921-932, 2002 | 95 | 2002 |
| Evolving local economic development policy and practice in South Africa with special reference to smaller urban centres E Nel, CM Rogerson Urban Forum 18, 1-11, 2007 | 93 | 2007 |
| Small‐scale, nature‐based tourism as a pro‐poor development intervention: Two examples in Kwazulu‐Natal, South Africa T Hill, E Nel, D Trotter Singapore journal of tropical geography 27 (2), 163-175, 2006 | 93 | 2006 |
| The village in a game park: Local response to the demise of coal mining in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa T Binns, E Nel Economic Geography 79 (1), 41-66, 2003 | 88 | 2003 |
| Local development initiatives and Stutterheim EL Nel Development Southern Africa 11 (3), 363-377, 1994 | 87 | 1994 |
| Pro-poor local economic development in South Africa's cities: policy and practice EL Nel, CM Rogerson Africa insight 35 (4), 15-20, 2005 | 84 | 2005 |
| The changing nature of mining towns: Reflections from Australia, Canada and South Africa L Marais, FH McKenzie, L Deacon, E Nel, D van Rooyen, J Cloete Land use policy 76, 779-788, 2018 | 81 | 2018 |
Tony BinnsRon Lister Professor of Geography, University of OtagoVerified email at geography.otago.ac.nz
