| Sociohydrology: scientific challenges in addressing the sustainable development goals G Di Baldassarre, M Sivapalan, M Rusca, C Cudennec, M Garcia, ... Water Resources Research 55 (8), 6327-6355, 2019 | 554 | 2019 |
| Participation in flood risk management and the potential of citizen observatories: A governance analysis U Wehn, M Rusca, J Evers, V Lanfranchi Environmental Science & Policy 48, 225-236, 2015 | 328 | 2015 |
| African urbanisation and urbanism: Implications for risk accumulation and reduction D Dodman, H Leck, M Rusca, S Colenbrander International journal of disaster risk reduction 26, 7-15, 2017 | 302 | 2017 |
| Informal space in the urban waterscape: Disaggregation and co-production of water services R Ahlers, F Cleaver, M Rusca, K Schwartz Water Alternatives 7 (1), 1-14, 2014 | 273 | 2014 |
| The sustainable development goal on water and sanitation: learning from the millennium development goals J Weststrate, G Dijkstra, J Eshuis, A Gianoli, M Rusca Social Indicators Research 143 (2), 795-810, 2019 | 250 | 2019 |
| Urban water crises driven by elites’ unsustainable consumption E Savelli, M Mazzoleni, G Di Baldassarre, H Cloke, M Rusca Nature Sustainability 6 (8), 929-940, 2023 | 162 | 2023 |
| An interdisciplinary political ecology of drinking water quality. Exploring socio-ecological inequalities in Lilongwe’s water supply network M Rusca, AS Boakye-Ansah, A Loftus, G Ferrero, P Van der Zaag Geoforum 84, 138-146, 2017 | 130 | 2017 |
| Mapping operation and maintenance: An everyday urbanism analysis of inequalities within piped water supply in Lilongwe, Malawi C Alda-Vidal, M Kooy, M Rusca Urban Geography 39 (1), 104-121, 2018 | 110 | 2018 |
| The wider the gap between rich and poor the higher the flood mortality S Lindersson, E Raffetti, M Rusca, L Brandimarte, J Mård, ... Nature Sustainability 6 (8), 995-1005, 2023 | 102 | 2023 |
| Don’t blame the rain: Social power and the 2015–2017 drought in Cape Town E Savelli, M Rusca, H Cloke, G Di Baldassarre Journal of Hydrology 594, 125953, 2021 | 100 | 2021 |
| Drought and society: Scientific progress, blind spots, and future prospects E Savelli, M Rusca, H Cloke, G Di Baldassarre Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 13 (3), e761, 2022 | 88 | 2022 |
| Unprecedented droughts are expected to exacerbate urban inequalities in Southern Africa M Rusca, E Savelli, G Di Baldassarre, A Biza, G Messori Nature Climate Change 13 (1), 98-105, 2023 | 85 | 2023 |
| Unleashing entrepreneurs or controlling unruly providers? The formalisation of small-scale water providers in Greater Maputo, Mozambique R Ahlers, V Perez Güida, M Rusca, K Schwartz The Journal of Development Studies 49 (4), 470-482, 2013 | 85 | 2013 |
| The paradox of cost recovery in heterogeneous municipal water supply systems: ensuring inclusiveness or exacerbating inequalities? M Rusca, K Schwartz Habitat International 73, 101-108, 2018 | 81 | 2018 |
| Adapting generic models through bricolage: Elite capture of water users associations in peri-urban Lilongwe M Rusca, K Schwartz, L Hadzovic, R Ahlers The European Journal of Development Research 27 (5), 777-792, 2015 | 80 | 2015 |
| Floodplains in the Anthropocene: A global analysis of the interplay between human population, built environment, and flood severity M Mazzoleni, J Mård, M Rusca, V Odongo, S Lindersson, ... Water Resources Research 57 (2), e2020WR027744, 2021 | 78 | 2021 |
| Interdisciplinary critical geographies of water: Capturing the mutual shaping of society and hydrological flows M Rusca, G Di Baldassarre Water 11 (10), 1973, 2019 | 77 | 2019 |
| Experiential learning through role-playing: Enhancing stakeholder collaboration in water safety plans G Ferrero, F Bichai, M Rusca Water 10 (2), 227, 2018 | 77 | 2018 |
| Water management simulation games and the construction of knowledge M Rusca, J Heun, K Schwartz Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16 (8), 2749-2757, 2012 | 73 | 2012 |
| Inequalities in microbial contamination of drinking water supplies in urban areas: The case of Lilongwe, Malawi AS Boakye-Ansah, G Ferrero, M Rusca, P Van Der Zaag Journal of Water and Health 14 (5), 851-863, 2016 | 71 | 2016 |