| Democratic Assertions: The Making of India's Recognition of Forest Rights Act K Kumar, J Kerr Development and Change 43 (3), 751-771, 2012 | 119 | 2012 |
| Decentralisation and democratic forest reforms in India: Moving to a rights-based approach K Kumar, NM Singh, JM Kerr Forest Policy and Economics 51, 1-8, 2015 | 99 | 2015 |
| The minimum land area requiring conservation attention to safeguard biodiversity JR Allan, HP Possingham, SC Atkinson, A Waldron, M Di Marco, ... Science 376 (6597), 1094-1101, 2022 | 93 | 2022 |
| The sacred mountain: confronting global capital at Niyamgiri. K Kumar Geoforum 54 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.11.008), 196-206, 2014 | 92 | 2014 |
| Forest-linked livelihoods in a globalized world JA Oldekop, LV Rasmussen, A Agrawal, AJ Bebbington, P Meyfroidt, ... Nature Plants 6 (12), 1400-1407, 2020 | 84 | 2020 |
| Community Based Forest Management Systems: Case Studies from Orissa S Kant, NM Singh, KK Singh Indian Institute of Forest Management, 1991 | 80 | 1991 |
| A socio-economic and legal study of scheduled tribes’ land in Orissa K Kumar, PR Choudhary, S Sarangi, P Mishra, S Behera Unpublished Study Commissioned by World Bank Washington, 2005 | 53 | 2005 |
| GRASSROOTS FOREST PROTECTION: EASTERN INDIAN EXPERIENCES M Poffenberger, A Rai, A Khare, K Singh, P Singh Neera, Bhattacharya, ... Asia Forestry Network, 1996 | 48 | 1996 |
| Promise and Performance of the Forest Rights Act A Ten-year Review K Kumar, N Singh, YG Rao Economic and Political Weekly 52 (Issue No. 25-26,), 2017 | 46 | 2017 |
| Territorialisation and marginalisation in the forested landscapes of Orissa, India K Kumar, J Kerr Land Use Policy 30 (1), 885–894, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| Confronting Extractive Capital: Social and Environmental Movements in Orissa K Kumar Economic and Political Weekly 49 (14), 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| Rights-Based Conservation: The path to preserving Earth’s biological and cultural diversity? T Worsdell, K Kumar, JR Allan, GEM Gibbon, A White, A Khare, ... Rights and Resources, 2020 | 29 | 2020 |
| Dispossessed and displaced: A brief paper on tribal issues in Orissa K Kumar Co-Acting Monthly Review of the state and people 1 (1), 1-17, 2006 | 26 | 2006 |
| Forest protection by communities in Orissa: a new green revolution NM Singh, KK Singh Revista: Bosques, Arboles y Comunidades Rurales, 1993 | 19 | 1993 |
| Community initiatives to protect and manage forests in Balangir and Sambalpur Districts N Singh, K Kumar Swedish International Development Agency, New Delhi, 1993 | 13 | 1993 |
| Status of Adivasis/Indigenous Peoples Land Series - Orissa K Kumar Aakar Books, New Delhi 2, 53, 2011 | 8 | 2011 |
| Tenure and Access Rights as Constraints to Community Watershed Development in Orissa, India K Kumar, J Kerr, P Choudhury The Commons in an Age of Global Transition: Challenges, Risks and …, 2004 | 6 | 2004 |
| Orissa (India) Case Study Report: IUCN's Sustainable Livelihoods, Environmental Security and Conflict Mitigation Project K Kumar, Y Giri Rao, S Sarangi Vasundhara, Bhubaneswar, 2004 | 5 | 2004 |
| Erasing the Swiddens: Shifting Cultivation, Land and Forest Rights in Odisha K Kumar Democratizing Forest Governance in India, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
| A Status of Adivasis/Indigenous Peoples Land Series–2 K Kumar Orissa, 2011 | 4 | 2011 |
Neera SinghAssociate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of TorontoVerified email at utoronto.ca
