Education

• School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Ph.D. Sustainability 2012
• Northern Arizona University, M.S. Environmental Science and Policy 2004
• Prescott College, B.A. Environmental Studies 1999

Professional Experience

Featured Publications & Products

• Munoz-Erickson, T.A. 2014. Co-production of knowledge-action systems in urban sustainable governance: The KASA approach.
• Munoz, Tischa A.; Cutts, B.B. 2016. Structural dimensions of knowledge-action networks for sustainability.
• Munoz-Erickson, T.A.; Lugo, A.E.; Melendez-Ackerman, E.; Santiago-Acevedo, L.E.; Seguinot-Barbosa, J.; Mendez-Lazaro, P. 2014. Knowledge to serve the city: insights from an emerging knowledge-action network to address vulnerability and sustainability in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Munoz, Tischa A. 2014. Multiple pathways to sustainability in the city: the case of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Munoz, Tischa A.; Lugo, A.E.; Quintero, B. 2014. Emerging synthesis themes from the study of social-ecological systems of a tropical city.

Publications

• Ramsey, Molly M.; Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A.; Mélendez-Ackerman, Elvia ; Nytch, Christopher J.; Branoff, Benjamin L.; Carrasquillo-Medrano, David . 2019. Overcoming barriers to knowledge integration for urban resilience: A knowledge systems analysis of two-flood prone communities in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Eakin, Hallie ; Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A.; Lemos, Maria Carmen. 2018. Critical Lines of Action for Vulnerability and Resilience Research and Practice: Lessons from the 2017 Hurricane Season.
• Miller, Thaddeus R.; Chester, Mikhail; Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A. 2018. Rethinking infrastructure in an era of unprecedented weather events.
• Martinuzzi, Sebastián ; Ramos-González, Olga M.; Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A.; Locke, Dexter H.; Lugo, Ariel E.; Radeloff, Volker C. 2018. Vegetation cover in relation to socioeconomic factors in a tropical city assessed from sub-meter resolution imagery.
• Muñoz-Erickson, T.A.; Campbell, L.K.; Childers, D.L.; Grove, J.M.; Iwaniec, D.M.; Pickett, S.T.A.; Romolini, Michelle; Svendsen, Erika S. 2016. Demystifying governance and its role for transitions in urban social ecological systems.
• Grove, Morgan; Childers, Daniel L.; Galvin, Michael; Hines, Sarah J.; Munoz-Erickson, Tischa; Svendsen, Erika S. 2016. Linking science and decision making to promote an ecology for the city: practices and opportunities.
• Cutts, Bethany B.; Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A.; Shutters, Shade T. 2015. Public representation in water management -- A network analysis of organization and public perceptions in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Lugo, A.E.; Concepcion, C.M.; Santiago-Acevedo, L.E.; Munoz-Erickson, T.A.; Verdejo Ortiz, J.C.; Santiago-Bartolomei, R.; Forero-Montana, J.; Nytch, C.J.; Manrique, H.; Colon-Cortes, W. 2012. In search of an adaptive social-ecological approach to understanding a tropical city.

Research Highlights

Highlight	Title	Year
IITF-2018-39	Designing Knowledge Designing Knowledge Systems for Organizational Success	2018
IITF-2018-40	From Disaster to Transformation: Lessons from Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane María We are capturing lessons from the hurricane under the theme: "From disaster to transformation" involving wide cross sections of the social spect ...	2018
NRS-2016-112	IITF and NRS each established a Charter for Urban Field Stations and Networks IITF and NRS officially established charters for Urban Research Stations in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Baltimore, Chicago, New York City, and Phi ...	2016
IITF-2013-092	Online Mapping Tool Helps Identify Green Areas for Sustainability Planning in San Juan The tool also allows multiple stakeholders in the city to deliberate and model multiple scenarios for green connectivity and their utility in ad ...	2013
IITF-2014-005	Understanding Vulnerability and Sustainability of Urban Social-ecological Systems in the Tropics Scientists of the San Juan Urban Long-Term Research Area (ULTRA) publish an interdisciplinary synthesis of social-ecological system research in ...	2014
IITF-2016-23	i-Tree Serves as a Green Infrastructure Assessment Tool to Municipal Planners and Researchers in the Dominican Republic The iTree tool was implemented for the first time in the Colonial City of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to assess the value of ecosystem-ba ...	2016