El-Taliawi, O. G., Nair, S., & Van der Wal, Z. (2021). Public Policy Schools in the Global South: A Mapping and Analysis of the Emerging Landscape, Policy Sciences, 54(2), 371-395.

Nair, S. (2020). Designing Policy Pilots Under Climate Uncertainty: A Conceptual Framework for Comparative Analysis. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, 22(4), 344-359.

Shivakoti, R., Howlett, M., Fernandez, V., & Nair, S. (2019). Governing International Regime Complexes through Multi-level Governance Mechanisms: Lessons from Water, Forestry and Migration Policy. International Journal of Water Resources Development, 37(4), 658-675.

Jensen, O., & Nair, S. (2019).Integrated Urban Water Management and Water Security: A Comparison of Singapore and Hong Kong, Water, 11(4), 785.

Nair, S., & Howlett, M. (2017). Policy Myopia as a Source of Policy Failure: Adaptation and Policy Learning Under Deep Uncertainty, Policy & Politics, 45(1), 103-118.

Wellstead, A., Howlett, M., Nair, S., & Rayner, J. (2016). “Push” Dynamics in Policy Experimentation: Downscaling Climate Change Adaptation Programs in Canada, Climate Services, 4, 52-60.

Nair, S., & Howlett, M. (2016). From Robustness to Resilience: Avoiding Policy Traps in the Long Term. Sustainability Science, 11(6), 909-917.

Nair, S., & Howlett, M. (2015). Scaling Up of Policy Experiments and Pilots: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Lessons for the Water Sector, Water Resources Management, 29(14), 4945-4961.

Nair, S., & Howlett, M. (2016), Meaning and Power in the Design and Development of Policy Experiments, Futures, 76, 67-74.

Nair, S., Wen, W. K., & Ling, C. M. (2014), Bangkok Flood Risk Management: Application of Foresight Methodology for Scenario and Policy Development, Journal of Futures Studies, 19(2), 87-112.

Bhadwal, S., Groot, A., Balakrishnan, S., Nair, S., Ghosh, S., Lingaraj, G. J., ... & Siderius, C. (2013). Adaptation to Changing Water Resource Availability in Northern India with Respect to Himalayan Glacier Retreat and Changing Monsoons Using Participatory Approaches, Science of the Total Environment, 468, S152-S161.

Swanson, D., Barg, S., Tyler, S., Venema, H., Tomar, S., Bhadwal, S., Nair, S., Roy, D. and Drexhage, J., (2010), Seven Tools for Creating Adaptive Policies, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 77(6), 924-939.

Nair, S., Varma, N. (eds) Emerging Pedagogies for Policy Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. 

Nair, S. (2021). Rethinking Policy Piloting: Insights from Indian Agriculture. Cambridge University Press.

Ng, W. J., Nair, S., Jinadasa, K. S. N., & Valencia, E. (2018). Saving Lakes-The Urban Socio-cultural And Technological Perspectives. World Scientific.

Nair, S., Lim, S. S., Trenerry, B, Chng, S.,. and Yang, W, 2021. ‘Preparing for workforce transformation in Singapore: The role of Technical and Vocational Education and Training’ In: The Next Digital Decade – Policy Approaches from Asia. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung and Digital Asia Hub, Germany. 

Nair, S., & Howlett, M. (2018), Policy Pilots for Climate Adaptation in Indian Agriculture: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis, In B. Turnheim, P. Kivimaa, & F. Berkhout (Eds.), Innovating Climate Governance: Moving Beyond Experiments,166-181, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Nair, S. and Howlett, M., (2017). The Central Conundrums of Policy Formulation: Ill-Structured Problems and Uncertainty, In Handbook of Policy Formulation. Michael Howlett and Ishani Mukherjee (Eds.), 23-38, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar 2016.

Nair, S., Vreugdenhil, H., Bearfield, D., & Dubnick, M. (2015). Policy Making: Pilot Projects as Predictive Methods, Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, 4, 2623-2627.

Nair S. 2016. Addressing Environmental Degradation and Rural Poverty through Climate Change Adaptation: An Evaluation of Social Learning in Drought-affected Districts of Southern India, CCAFS Working Paper no. 174. Copenhagen, Denmark: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).