Gordon, L.J., Finlayson, C.M., Falkenmark, M. Managing water in agriculture for food production and other ecosystem services. Agricultural Water Management, in press

Enfors, E. I., Gordon, L.J. 2008. Dealing with drought: The challenge of using water system technologies to break dryland poverty traps. Global Environmental Change, 18: 607—616

Enfors, E. I., L. J. Gordon, G. D. Peterson, and D. Bossio. 2008. Making investments in dryland development work: participatory scenario planning in the Makanya catchment, Tanzania. Ecology and Society 13(2): 42. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art42/

Gordon, L.J., Peterson, G.D., Bennett, E., 2008. Agricultural modifications of hydrological flows create ecological surprises. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23(4) 211-219.

Enfors, E., Gordon, L.J. (2007) Analysing resilience in dryland agro-ecosystems: A case study of the Makanya catchment in Tanzania over the past 50 years. Land Degradation & Development, 18(6) 680 - 696

Gordon, L.J., Steffen, W., Jönsson, B.F., Folke, C., Falkenmark, M., Johannessen, Å.  2005.  Human modifications of water vapour flows from the land surface, PNAS, 102: 7612-7617.

Rockström, J., Folke, C., Gordon, L., Hatibu, N., Jewitt, G., Penning de Vries, F., Rwehumbiza, F., Sally, H., Savenije, H., Schulze R. 2004. A watershed approach to upgrade rainfed agriculture in water scarce regions through Water System Innovations: an integrated research initiative on water for food and rural livelihoods in balance with ecosystem functions. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 29: 1109-1118

Gordon, L., Dunlop, M. Foran, B. 2003. Land cover change and water vapour flows: Learning from Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society: B 348(1440):1973-1984.

Rockström, J. and Gordon, L. 2001. Assessment of green water flows to sustain major biomes of the world: Implications for future ecohydrological landscape management. Phys. Chem. Earth. Pt B, 26 (11-12): 843-851. Reprinted in GAIA 4, 2002.

Bras, R. and Gordon, L. 2001. Workshop 3: innovative processes in small scale agricultural production using water more effectively. Water Science and Technology, 43(4) 129-131.

Gordon, L. and Folke, C. 2000. Ecohydrological landscape management for human wellbeing. Water International 25:178-184.  Reprinted in Water Resources Journal, December 2000.

Rockström, J., Gordon, L., Folke, C., Falkenmark, M., and Engwall, M. 1999. Linkages among water vapor flows, food production and terrestrial ecosystem services. Conservation Ecology, 3(2), 5. [online] URL:http://www.consecol.org/vol3/iss2/art5.

Jansson, Å., Folke, C., Rockström, J., and Gordon, L. 1999. Linking freshwater flows and ecosystem services appropriated by people: The case of theBaltic Seadrainage basin. Ecosystems, 2, 351-366.

Book chapters
Deutsch, L., Falkenmark, M., Gordon, L.J., Rockström, J. Folke, C. Water-mediated ecological consequences of intensive livestock production. Book chapter in: Livestock in a changing landscape: Drivers, Consequences and Responses. Eds. Steinfeld, H, Mooney, H. and Schneider, F. Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative — LEAD at FAO, SCOPE program on Consequences of Industrialized Animal Production Systems, and the Swiss College of Agriculture, in press

Gordon, L.J, Enfors, E. 2008. Land degradation, ecosystem services and resilience of smallholder farmers in Makanya catchment, Tanzania. In Bossio, D., Geheb, K. (eds) Conserving land, protecting water, CABI ,UK. pp 33-50.

Falkenmark M., Finlayson C.M., Gordon L.J., Bennett E.M., Matiza Chiuta T., Coates D., Gosh N., Gopalakrishnan M., de Groot RS., Jacks G., Kendy E., Oyebande L., Moore M., Peterson GD., Portugez JM., (2007) Agriculture, water and ecosystems: Avoiding the costs of going too far. pp. 233-277 in Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture. Earthscan, London

Molden, D., Gordon, L.J. et al. Summary for Policymakers. In Water for Food, Water for Life: The Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, in press

de Fraturier C., Wichelns D., Rockström J., Kemp-Benedict E., Eriyagama N., Gordon LJ., Hanjra MA., Hoogeveen J., Huber-Lee A., Karlberg L. (2007) Looking ahead to 2050: scenarios of alternative investment approaches, pp. 91-145 in Water for Food, Water for Life: A Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, Earthscan, London

Folke C., Carpenter S., Elmqvist T., Gunderson L., Holling CS., Walker B., Bengtsson J., Berkes F., Colding J., Danell K., Falkenmark M., Gordon L., Kaspersson R., Kautsky N., Kinzig A., Levin SA. et al. 2002 Resilience and Sustainable Development: Building Adaptive Capacity in a World of Transformations. Report for the Swedish Environmental Advisory Council 2002:1. Ministry of the Environment, Stockholm. Earlier version ICSU Series on Science for Sustainable Development No. 3, 2002. International Council for Science, Paris.

Falkenmark, M., Gordon, L., Folke, C.. 2000. Water in the landscape — Functions and values, in New Dimensions in Water Security — Water, Society, and Ecosystem services in the 21st Century Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Landand Water Development Division Rome.

Proceedings and other scientific publications
Gordon, L. 2003. Water and ecosystems in a time of global change. In: Vatten — århundradets ödesfråga? Proceedings from Edbergsseminariet 2003. Karlstads universitet (Elmered Vogt, K. ed).

Wijkman, A and Gordon, L. 2002. Workshop 9 (synthesis): how to increase the status of water issues in governance and in public perception. Water Science and Technology, 45(8) 229-231

Dunlop M., Hall N., Watson B., Gordon L., Foran B. (2001) Water use in Australia. Report I of IV in a series on Australian water futures. Resource Futures Program working paper CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems Canberra

Rockström, J. and Gordon, L., 1998. Water in the human life support system - Averting the predicted water crises. Summary and conclusions from SIWI Young Scientists Forum. Proceedings from the International Symposium on Water - The Key to socio-Economic Development and Quality of Life, the 8th Stockholm Water Symposium, 10-13 Aug 1998, pp 121-123. Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

Wijkman, A. and Gordon, L., 1998. Meeting Hydroclimatic Variability in the Tropics and Subtropics: Strategies for drought effect mitigation. Summary and conclusions from workshop 4, the 8th Stockholm Water Symposium. Proceedings from the International Symposium on Water - The Key to Socio-Economic Development and Quality of Life, the 8th Stockholm Water Symposium, 10-13 Aug 1998. Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm ,Sweden