Hirons, M. (2015) Trees for development? Articulating the ambiguities of power, authority and legitimacy in governing Ghana’s mineral rich forests. The Extractive Industries and Society, 2 (3). pp. 491-499. ISSN 2214-790X doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2015.05.001

Hirons, M., Hilson, G., Asase, A. and Hodson, M. (2014) Mining in a changing climate: what scope for forestry-based legacies? Journal of Cleaner Production, 84. pp. 430-438. ISSN 0959-6526 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.11.025

Hirons, M. (2014) Decentralising natural resource governance in Ghana: critical reflections on the artisanal and small-scale mining sector. Futures, 62. pp. 21-31. ISSN 0016-3287 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2013.11.005

Hirons, M. (2014) Shifting sand, shifting livelihoods? Reflections on a coastal gold rush in Ghana. Resources Policy, 40. pp. 83-89. ISSN 0301-4207 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2013.08.005

Hirons, M. (2013) Mining in Ghana’s forests: cross-sectoral linkages and the prospects for REDD. International Development Planning Review, 35 (3). pp. 283-302. ISSN 1474-6743 doi: https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2013.18

Hirons, M. (2011) Managing artisanal and small-scale mining in forest areas: perspectives from a poststructural political ecology. The Geographical Journal, 177 (4). pp. 347-356. ISSN 1475-4959 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00405.x

Hirons, M. (2011) Locking-in carbon, locking-out livelihoods? ASM and REDD in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of International Development, 23 (8). pp. 1140-1150. ISSN 1099-1328 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1837