| Valuing cultural ecosystem services M Hirons, C Comberti, R Dunford Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41, 545-574, 2016 | 262 | 2016 |
| How the Sustainable Development Goals risk undermining efforts to address environmental and social issues in the small-scale mining sector M Hirons Environmental Science & Policy 114, 321-328, 2020 | 68 | 2020 |
| Managing artisanal and small‐scale mining in forest areas: perspectives from a poststructural political ecology M Hirons The Geographical Journal 177 (4), 347-356, 2011 | 60 | 2011 |
| Understanding climate resilience in Ghanaian cocoa communities–advancing a biocultural perspective M Hirons, E Boyd, C Mcdermott, R Asare, A Morel, J Mason, Y Malhi, ... Journal of Rural Studies 63, 120-129, 2018 | 57 | 2018 |
| Pursuing climate resilient coffee in Ethiopia–A critical review M Hirons, Z Mehrabi, TA Gonfa, A Morel, TW Gole, C McDermott, E Boyd, ... Geoforum 91, 108-116, 2018 | 55 | 2018 |
| Questioning the link between tenure security and sustainable land management in cocoa landscapes in Ghana FA Asaaga, MA Hirons, Y Malhi World Development 130, 104913, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Decentralising natural resource governance in Ghana: Critical reflections on the artisanal and small-scale mining sector M Hirons Futures 62, 21-31, 2014 | 47 | 2014 |
| Vulnerability of Ghanaian women cocoa farmers to climate change: a typology R Friedman, MA Hirons, E Boyd Climate and Development 11 (5), 446-458, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
| Illegality and inequity in Ghana’s cocoa-forest landscape: How formalization can undermine farmers control and benefits from trees on their farms M Hirons, C McDermott, R Asare, A Morel, E Robinson, J Mason, E Boyd, ... Land use policy 76, 405-413, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Exploring temporality in socio-ecological resilience through experiences of the 2015–16 El Niņo across the Tropics S Whitfield, E Beauchamp, DS Boyd, D Burslem, A Byg, F Colledge, ... Global environmental change 55, 1-14, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Locking‐In Carbon, Locking‐Out Livelihoods? Artisanal Mining And Redd In Sub‐Saharan Africa M Hirons Journal of International Development 23 (8), 1140-1150, 2011 | 34 | 2011 |
| SDG 16: peace, justice and strong institutions–a political ecology perspective CL McDermott, E Acheampong, S Arora-Jonsson, R Asare, W de Jong, ... Cambridge University Press, 2019 | 33 | 2019 |
| Research priorities for global food security under extreme events Z Mehrabi, R Delzeit, A Ignaciuk, C Levers, G Braich, K Bajaj, ... One Earth 5 (7), 756-766, 2022 | 31 | 2022 |
| The interplay of global governance with domestic and local access: Insights from the FLEGT VPAs in Ghana and Indonesia CL McDermott, M Hirons, A Setyowati Society & Natural Resources 33 (2), 261-279, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
| Understanding poverty in cash-crop agro-forestry systems: evidence from Ghana and Ethiopia M Hirons, E Robinson, C McDermott, A Morel, R Asare, E Boyd, T Gonfa, ... Ecological Economics 154, 31-41, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
| Shifting sand, shifting livelihoods? Reflections on a coastal gold rush in Ghana M Hirons Resources Policy 40, 83-89, 2014 | 28 | 2014 |
| Windows of opportunity or windows of exclusion? Changing dynamics of tenurial relations in rural Ghana FA Asaaga, MA Hirons Land use policy 87, 104042, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| Agricultural information's impact on the adaptive capacity of Ghana's smallholder cocoa farmers VA Maguire-Rajpaul, K Khatun, MA Hirons Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 4, 28, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| Mining in a changing climate: what scope for forestry-based legacies? M Hirons, G Hilson, A Asase, ME Hodson Journal of cleaner production 84, 430-438, 2014 | 24 | 2014 |
| Contribution of non-timber forest products to the livelihood of farmers in coffee growing areas: evidence from Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve AD Beyene, A Mekonnen, M Hirons, EJZ Robinson, T Gonfa, TW Gole, ... Journal of environmental planning and management 63 (9), 1633-1654, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
