| Beyond technical fixes: Climate solutions and the great derangement AJ Nightingale, S Eriksen, M Taylor, T Forsyth, M Pelling, A Newsham, ... Climate and development 12 (4), 343-352, 2020 | 508 | 2020 |
| Introduction to the special issue: Water grabbing? Focus on the (re) appropriation of finite water resources L Mehta, GJ Veldwisch, J Franco The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2012 | 488 | 2012 |
| Exploring understandings of institutions and uncertainty: new directions in natural resource management M Leach, P Newell, I Scoones, L Mehta The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 1999 | 356 | 1999 |
| The politics and poetics of water: The naturalisation of scarcity in Western India L Mehta Orient Blackswan, 2005 | 303 | 2005 |
| The manufacture of popular perceptions of scarcity: Dams and water-related narratives in Gujarat, India L Mehta World development 29 (12), 2025-2041, 2001 | 271 | 2001 |
| Water and human development L Mehta World development 59, 59-69, 2014 | 262 | 2014 |
| Whose scarcity? Whose property? The case of water in western India L Mehta Land use policy 24 (4), 654-663, 2007 | 257 | 2007 |
| Resilience as a policy narrative: Potentials and limits in the context of urban planning C Béné, L Mehta, G McGranahan, T Cannon, J Gupte, T Tanner Climate and Development 10 (2), 116-133, 2018 | 252 | 2018 |
| The global politics of water grabbing J Franco, L Mehta, GJ Veldwisch Third World Quarterly 34 (9), 1651-1675, 2013 | 247 | 2013 |
| The limits to scarcity: Contesting the politics of allocation L Mehta Routledge, 2013 | 238 | 2013 |
| On the edge of sustainability: perspectives on peri-urban dynamics F Marshall, L Waldman, H MacGregor, L Mehta, P Randhawa The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2009 | 214 | 2009 |
| Commentary: The World Bank and its emerging knowledge empire L Mehta Human Organization 60 (2), 189-196, 2001 | 202 | 2001 |
| Environmental governance in an uncertain world L Mehta, M Leach, I Scoones IDS bulletin 56 (1A), 2025 | 198 | 2025 |
| Global environmental justice and the right to water: The case of peri-urban Cochabamba and Delhi L Mehta, J Allouche, A Nicol, A Walnycki Geoforum 54, 158-166, 2014 | 179 | 2014 |
| Contexts and constructions of water scarcity L Mehta Economic and political weekly, 5066-5072, 2003 | 160 | 2003 |
| Displaced by development: confronting marginalisation and gender injustice L Mehta Sage Publications, 2009 | 151 | 2009 |
| Water for the twenty-first century: challenges and misconceptions L Mehta The Institute of Development Studies and Partner Organisations, 2000 | 118 | 2000 |
| Globalizing citizens: New dynamics of inclusion and exclusion M Mayo, M Leach, A Alonso, R Tandon, I Scoones, SM Borras, S Robins, ... Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010 | 117 | 2010 |
| Climate change and uncertainty from ‘above’and ‘below’: perspectives from India L Mehta, S Srivastava, HN Adam, Alankar, S Bose, U Ghosh, VV Kumar Regional Environmental Change 19, 1533-1547, 2019 | 105 | 2019 |
| The politics of IWRM in Southern Africa L Mehta, R Alba, A Bolding, K Denby, B Derman, T Hove, E Manzungu, ... Revisiting Integrated Water Resources Management, 168-182, 2017 | 101 | 2017 |