Tischa A. A. Munoz, PhD

Research Social Scientist

International Institute of Tropical Forestry

tischa.a.munoz-erickson@usda.gov

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Laura T. Cabrera-Rivera, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Digna Rueda-Roa, Heriberto Marin, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Pablo A. Mendez-Lazaro. 2026. Heat vulnerability in the city of ponce, Puerto Rico
Mathieu Feagan, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Robert Hobbins, Kristin Baja, Mikhail Chester, Elizabeth M. Cook, Nancy Grimm, Morgan Grove, David M. Iwaniec, Seema Iyer, Timon McPhearson, Pablo Méndez-Lázaro, Clark Miller, Daniel Sauter, William Solecki, Claudia Tomateo, Tiffany Troxler, Claire Welty. 2025. Co-producing new knowledge systems for resilient and just coastal cities: A social-ecological-technological systems framework for data visualization
Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika Svendsen, Michelle Johnson, Natalia Piland, Dexter H. Locke, Nancy Falxa Sonti, Morgan Grove, Michele Romolini, Heather McMillen, Rachel Dacks, Bryce DuBois, Jesse Sayles, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Laura Landau, Lorien Jasny, Krista Heinlen, Maria Arroyave, Camille McCarthy, David Bloniarz, Brian Goldberg, Gerald Bauer, Travis Warziniack, Sophie Plitt, Julio Onofre, Nicole Heise Vigil, Arantxa Zamora-Rendon, Alejandra García Castro, Nicole Harmelin García, Bryan Flores. 2024. Reflecting on Local Ecological Stewardship, Care, and Action across Two Decades of Research
Morgan Grove, Steward Pickett, Christopher G. Boone, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Pippin Anderson, Fushcia-Ann Hoover, Ariel Lugo, Elvia Meléndez-Ackerman, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Harini Nagendra, L. Kidany. Selles. 2024. Forging just ecologies: 25 years of urban long-term ecological research collaboration
Niki Frantzeskaki, Daniel L. Childers, Steward Pickett, Fushcia-Ann Hoover, Pippin Anderson, Aliyu Barau, Joshua Ginsberg, Morgan Grove, Marleen Lodder, Ariel Lugo, Timon McPhearson, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Mien Quartier, Selina Schepers, Ayyoob Sharifi, Katrien van de Sijpe. 2024. A transformative shift in urban ecology toward a more active and relevant future for the field and for cities
Steward T. A. Pickett, AbdouMaliq T. Simone, Pippin Anderson, Ayyoob Sharifi, Aliyu Barau, Fushcia-Ann Hoover, Daniel L. Childers, Timon McPhearson, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Chantal Pacteau, Morgan Grove, Niki Frantzeskaki, Harini Nagendra, Joshua Ginsberg. 2024. The relational shift in urban ecology: From place and structures to multiple modes of coproduction for positive urban futures
Jayajit Chakraborty, So-Min Cheong, Christopher Clavin, Makena Coffman, David M. Hondula, David Hsu, Viniece L Jennings, Jesse M Keenan, Ann Kosmal, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Na’Taki Osborne Jelks. 2024. Chapter 12 : Built Environment, Urban Systems, and Cities. Fifth National Climate Assessment
Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Elizabeth M. Cook, Nancy B. Grimm, David M. Iwaniec, Lelani M. Mannetti, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Darin Wahl. 2023. Assessing resilience, equity, and sustainability of future visions across two urban scales
Mikhail V Chester, Thaddeus R. Miller, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Alysha M. Helmrich, David M. Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, Elizabeth M. Cook, Nancy B. Grimm, Samuel A. Markolf. 2023. Sensemaking for entangled urban social, ecological, and technological systems in the Anthropocene
E. Cook, J. Ventrella, T. McPhearson, A. Parris, M. Tier, Tischa A. A. Munoz, D. Iwaniec, L. Mannetti, C. Green, D. Tagtachian. 2022. New York City Climate Adaptation Scenarios for 2100: Exploring alternative, positive visions for a resilient future. Urban Systems Lab. The New School.
Tiffany G. Troxler, Timon McPhearson, Elizabeth M. Cook, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Chingwen Cheng, Nancy B. Grimm, Erik Andersson, Olga Barbosa, David G. Chandler, Heejun Chang, Mikhail V Chester, Daniel L. Childers, Stephen R. Elser, Niki Frantzeskaki, Zbigniew Grabowski, Peter Groffman, Rebecca L. Hale, David M. Iwaniec, Nadja Kabisch, Christopher Kennedy, Samuel A. Markolf, A. Marissa Matsler, Lauren E. McPhillips, Thaddeus R. Miller, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Emma Rosi. 2022. A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services
D. Dodman, B Hayward, M. Pelling, V. Castan Broto, W. Chow, E. Chu, R. Dawson, L. Khirfan, T. McPhearson, A. Prakash, Y. Zheng, G. Ziervogel, Tischa A. A. Munoz. 2022. Cities, Settlements and Key Infrastructure. In: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
David M. Iwaniec, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Elizabeth M. Cook, Nancy B. Grimm, Lelani M. Mannetti, Timon McPhearson, Tischa A. A. Munoz. 2021. Positive futures
Timon McPhearson, David M. Iwaniec, Zoé A. Hamstead, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Elizabeth M. Cook, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Lelani Mannetti, Nancy Grimm. 2021. A vision for resilient urban futures
Tischa A. A. Munoz, Kaethe Selkirk, Robert Hobbins, Clark Miller, Mathieu Feagan, David M. Iwaniec, Thaddeus R. Miller, Elizabeth M. Cook. 2021. Anticipatory resilience: Bringing back the future into urban planning and knowledge systems
Tischa A. A. Munoz, Sara Meerow, Robert Hobbins, Elizabeth Cook, David M. Iwaniec, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Nancy B. Grimm, Allain Barnett, Jan Cordero, Changdeok Gim, Thaddeus R. Miller, Fernando Tandazo-Bustamante, Agustín Robles-Morua. 2021. Beyond bouncing back? Comparing and contesting urban resilience frames in US and Latin American contexts
David M. Iwaniec, Nancy B. Grimm, Timon McPhearson, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Elizabeth M. Cook, Tischa A. A. Munoz. 2021. A framework for resilient urban futures
Sebastián Martinuzzi, Dexter H. Locke, Olga Ramos, Monika Sanchez, Morgan Grove, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Wayne J. Arendt, Gerald Bauer. 2021. Exploring the relationships between tree canopy cover and socioeconomic characteristics in tropical urban systems: The case of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Tischa A. A. Munoz, Gerald Bauer, Michelle Johnson, Ana Beatriz Pou Espinal, Leonardo Cortés, Claudia Caballero, Olga Ramos. 2019. Implementation of the Stewardship Mapping and Assessment project (STEWMAP) in Santo Domingo’s National District, Dominican Republic
Mervin E. Pérez, Elvia Meléndez-Ackerman, Solhanlle Bonilla, Gerald Bauer, Mirel Volcán, Ana Pou, Claudia Caballero, Leonardo Cortés, Wayne J. Arendt, Tischa A. A. Munoz, David J. Nowak. 2019. Urban-Forest Assessment in the Dominican Republic
Mathieu Feagan, Marissa Matsler, Sara Meerow, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Robert Hobbins, Changdeok Gim, Clark A. Miller. 2019. Redesigning knowledge systems for urban resilience
Molly M. Ramsey, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Elvia Mélendez-Ackerman, Christopher J. Nytch, Benjamin L. Branoff, David Carrasquillo-Medrano. 2019. Overcoming barriers to knowledge integration for urban resilience: A knowledge systems analysis of two-flood prone communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Hallie Eakin, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Maria Carmen. Lemos. 2018. Critical Lines of Action for Vulnerability and Resilience Research and Practice: Lessons from the 2017 Hurricane Season
Thaddeus R. Miller, Mikhail Chester, Tischa A. A. Munoz. 2018. Rethinking infrastructure in an era of unprecedented weather events
Sebastián Martinuzzi, Olga Ramos, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Dexter H. Locke, Ariel Lugo, Volker C. Radeloff. 2018. Vegetation cover in relation to socioeconomic factors in a tropical city assessed from sub-meter resolution imagery
Tischa A. A. Munoz, Lindsay K. Campbell, D.L. Childers, Morgan Grove, D.M. Iwaniec, S.T.A. Pickett, Michelle Romolini, Erika S. Svendsen. 2016. Demystifying governance and its role for transitions in urban social–ecological systems
Morgan Grove, Daniel L. Childers, Michael Galvin, Sarah J. Hines, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Erika Svendsen. 2016. Linking science and decision making to promote an ecology for the city: practices and opportunities
Tischa A. A. Munoz, B.B. Cutts. 2016. Structural dimensions of knowledge-action networks for sustainability
Bethany B. Cutts, Tischa A. A. Munoz, Shade T. Shutters. 2015. Public representation in water management -- A network analysis of organization and public perceptions in Phoenix, Arizona
Tischa A. A. Munoz, Ariel Lugo, E. Melendez-Ackerman, L.E. Santiago-Acevedo, J. Seguinot-Barbosa, P. Mendez-Lazaro. 2014. Knowledge to serve the city: insights from an emerging knowledge-action network to address vulnerability and sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tischa A. A. Munoz. 2014. Co-production of knowledge-action systems in urban sustainable governance: The KASA approach
Tischa A. A. Munoz. 2014. Multiple pathways to sustainability in the city: the case of San Juan, Puerto Rico
Tischa A. A. Munoz, Ariel Lugo, B. Quintero. 2014. Emerging synthesis themes from the study of social-ecological systems of a tropical city
Ariel Lugo, C.M. Concepcion, L.E. Santiago-Acevedo, Tischa A. A. Munoz, J.C. Verdejo Ortiz, R. Santiago-Bartolomei, J. Forero-Montana, C.J. Nytch, H. Manrique, W. Colon-Cortes. 2012. In search of an adaptive social-ecological approach to understanding a tropical city