| Advocacy for urban resilience: UNISDRĒs making cities resilient campaign C Johnson, S Blackburn Environment and Urbanization 26 (1), 29-52, 2014 | 160 | 2014 |
| Megacities and the Coast M Pelling, S Blackburn Rutledge, Inc. NY, 2013 | 151 | 2013 |
| The politics of scale and disaster risk governance: Barriers to decentralisation in Portland, Jamaica S Blackburn Geoforum 52, 101-112, 2014 | 88 | 2014 |
| An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change MF Byskov, K Hyams, P Satyal, I Anguelovski, L Benjamin, S Blackburn, ... Climate and Development 13 (1), 1-9, 2021 | 68 | 2021 |
| The political impacts of adaptation actions: Social contracts, a research agenda S Blackburn, M Pelling Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 9 (6), e549, 2018 | 47 | 2018 |
| Mega-urbanisation on the coast: global context and key trends in the twenty-first century S Blackburn, M César Megacities and the Coast, 1-21, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| What does transformation look like? Post-disaster politics and the case for progressive rehabilitation S Blackburn Sustainability 10 (7), 2317, 2018 | 31 | 2018 |
| Megacities and the coast: global context and scope for transformation S Blackburn, M Pelling, C Marques Coasts and Estuaries, 661-669, 2019 | 29 | 2019 |
| Building back better from COVID-19: Knowledge, emergence and social contracts M Pelling, H Adams, G Adamson, A Barcena, S Blackburn, M Borie, ... Progress in Human Geography 46 (1), 121-138, 2022 | 17 | 2022 |
| Psychological resilience for climate change transformation: Relational, differentiated and situated perspectives H Adams, S Blackburn, N Mantovani Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 50, 303-309, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| Changing the paradigm for risk communication: integrating sciences to understand cultures A Donovan, M Borie, S Blackburn Background paper for UNISDR Global Assessment of Risk, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| Coastal megacities: Risks and opportunities S Blackburn, M Pelling Global Change 82, 8-11, 2014 | 12 | 2014 |
| Making Cities Resilient Report 2012 C Johnson, S Blackburn My city is getting ready, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| Case studies: Governing social and environmental transformation in coastal megacities M Pelling, S Blackburn Megacities and the Coast, 200-236, 2014 | 8 | 2014 |
| Making cities resilient Report 2012 S Blackburn, C Johnson, D DODMAN, D SATTERTHWAITE, TH DAVIS, ... EU: UNISDR, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| Scales of disaster: intimate social contracts on the margins of the postcolonial state A Siddiqi, S Blackburn Critique of Anthropology 42 (3), 324-340, 2022 | 6 | 2022 |
| An agenda for ethics and justice in adaptation to climate change. Climate and Development, 13 (1), 1-9 MF Byskov, K Hyams, P Satyal, I Anguelovski, L Benjamin, S Blackburn, ... | 6 | 2021 |
| Megacities and the Coast: Risk M Pelling, S Blackburn Resilience and Transformation, Land–Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone …, 2012 | 6 | 2012 |
| Making Cities Resilient Report 2012. My city is getting ready! A global snapshot of how local governments reduce disaster risk C Johnson, S Blackburn United Nation Office for Risk Reduction, 2012 | 4 | 2012 |
| Mapping DRR institutions and actors across scales from centre to local: Kathmandu, Nepal DP Poudel, S Blackburn Tomorrow's Cities, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
