Bengston, D. N., J. Fletcher, and K. C. Nelson. 2004. Public policy instruments for managing urban growth: An assessment of lessons learned. Landscape and Urban Planning 69:271-286.

Fingerman Johnson, J., T. Downing, and K. C. Nelson. 2008. External Sprinkler Systems and Defensible Space: Lessons Learned from the Ham Lake Fire and the Gunflint Trail. A report prepared for the Firewise Program, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. St. Paul, MN: University of Minnesota, Department of Forest Resources.

Nelson, K. C., and B. de Jong. 2003. Making global initiatives local realities: Carbon mitigation projects in Chiapas, Mexico. Global Environmental Change 13(1):19-30.

Nelson, K. C., G. Kibata, L. Muhammad, J. O. Okuro, F. Muyekho, M. Odindo, A. Ely, and J. M. Waquil. 2004. Problem formulation and options assessment (PFOA) for genetically modified organisms: The Kenya Case Study. In Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Organisms: A Case Study of Bt Maize in Kenya, eds., Hilbeck, A., and D. Andow, 57-82. Wallingford, UK: CAB International.

Nelson, K. C., M. C. Monroe, J. Fingerman Johnson, and A. Bowers. 2005. The look of the land: Homeowner values, actions, and defensible space landscapes in Minnesota and Florida. Society and Natural Resources 18:321-336.

Nelson, K. C., M. C. Monroe, J. Fingerman Johnson, and Alison Brower. 2004. Living with fire: Homeowner assessment of landscape values and defensible space in Minnesota and Florida, U.S.A. International Journal of Wildland Fire 13(4):413-425.

Nerbonne, J. F., and K. C. Nelson. 2004. Volunteer macroinvertebrate mnitoring in the United States: Resource mobilization and comparative state structures. Society and Natural Resources 17:1-23.