Publications PUBLICATIONS *Indicates published with graduate studentBooks1Sample, V. A., Bixler, R. P., & Miller, C. (Eds.). (2016). Forest Conservation in the Anthropocene: Science, Policy, and Practice (1 edition). University Press of Colorado.Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (including Accepted and In Press)51Litvak, E., Groffman, P. M., Vorosmarty, C., Stoler, J., Bixler, R.P., Albrecht, K. In Press. “Advancing Urban Water Science to Address a Paradigm Shift in Water Management in US Cities.” Environmental Research: Water.50Land, S., Baxter, J., Mickel, A., Bixler, R. P., Carr, W., Johnson, S., Marchetta, J., & Robertson, T. 2025. Relating Collaborative Capacity with Social-Ecological Outcomes – Bridging Academic and Practitioner Perspectives to Advance Collaborative Landscape Stewardship in the United States. Society and Natural Resources. 10.1080/08941920.2025.255335149Azizi, K., Wang, Y., Enriquez, O., Passalacqua, P., Niyogi, D., Bixler, R.P. (2025). Integrating Perspectives: Multi-Sectoral Insights into Gulf Coast Flood Governance. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 127 (September):105662. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2025.10566248Paul, S., Zhou, K., & Bixler, R. P. (2025). Assessing extreme heat risk perception: Awareness, worry, preparedness and social capital in Texas. Environmental Science & Policy, 169, 104072. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.10407247Bixler, R. P., Essen, M., Thomsen, J., Johnson, S., Atshan, S., & Shariatmadari, A. (2025). Social Influence in Social-Ecological Systems: Collaborative Capacity and Inter-Organizational Networks in the U.S. Sagebrush. Environmental Management, 75(2), 272–285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-024-02026-946Hwang, H., Anderson, K.F., Vedlitz, A., & Bixler, R. P. (2024). “Unveiling Health Inequities: Exploring the Role of Social Capital and Public Trust in Bridging Racial Disparities in Health-Care Coverage for Hispanics.” Social Science Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13452.45Ma, J. W., Leite, F., Lieberknecht, K., Stephens, K. K., & Bixler, R. P. (2024). Using Q-methodology to discover disaster resilience perspectives from local residents. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 104, 104353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.10435344*Ovalle, J., Bixler, R. P., & Ma, J. (2024). How Do Nonprofits’ Organizational Characteristics Shape Environmental Philanthropy in Texas? A Network Science Approach. Nonprofit Policy Forum, 15(4), 371–387. https://doi.org/10.1515/npf-2023-001843Hwang, H., Bixler, R. P., Brown, W. A., & Vedlitz, A. (2024). How to activate nonprofit beneficiaries for community resilience? Examining the role of risk perception and evaluation of nonprofit services on prosocial behavior in the context of natural hazards. Sociological Spectrum, 44(1), 16–37. https://doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2023.227996842Kamath, H. G., Martilli, A., Singh, M., Brooks, T., Lanza, K., Bixler, R. P., Coudert, M., Yang, Z.-L., & Niyogi, D. (2023). Human heat health index (H3I) for holistic assessment of heat hazard and mitigation strategies beyond urban heat islands. Urban Climate, 52, 101675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.10167541*Preisser, M., Passalacqua, P., Bixler, R. P., & Boyles, S. (2023). A network-based analysis of critical resource accessibility during floods. Frontiers in Water, 5. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2023.127820540Lanza, K., Jones, J., Acuña, F., Coudert, M., Bixler, R. P., Kamath, H., & Niyogi, D. (2023). Heat vulnerability of Latino and Black residents in a low-income community and their recommended adaptation strategies: A qualitative study. Urban Climate, 51, 101656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.10165639Zoll, D., Lieberknecht, K., Bixler, R. P., Belaire, J. A., & Jha, S. (2023). Integrating equity, climate risks, and population growth for targeting conservation planning. Environmental Science & Policy, 147, 267–278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2023.06.01538Hwang, H., Vedlitz, A., & Bixler, R. P. (2023). Growing Community Resilience from the Grassroots: Risk Awareness, Confidence in Institutions, and Civic Participation in a Natural Hazards Context. Natural Hazards Review, 24(3), 04023020. https://doi.org/10.1061/NHREFO.NHENG-165837Zoll, D., Bixler, R. P., Lieberknecht, K., Belaire, J. A., *Shariatmadari, A., & Jha, S. (2023). Intersectional climate perceptions: Understanding the impacts of race and gender on climate experiences, future concerns, and planning efforts. Urban Climate, 101576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.10157636Bixler, R. P., Epanchin-Niell, R. S., Brunson, M. W., *Tarver, R. D., Sikes, B. A., McClure, M., & Aslan, C. E. (2023). How social and ecological characteristics shape transaction costs in polycentric wildfire governance: Insights from the Sequoia-Kings Canyon Ecosystem, California, USA. Ecology and Society, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-13834-28013435Bixler, R. P., Coudert, M., Richter, S. M., Jones, J. M., Llanes Pulido, C., Akhavan, N., Bartos, M., Passalacqua, P., & Niyogi, D. (2022). Reflexive co-production for urban resilience: Guiding framework and experiences from Austin, Texas. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2022.101563034Belaire, J. A., Higgins, C., Zoll, D., Lieberknecht, K., Bixler, R. P., Neff, J. L., Keitt, T. H., & Jha, S. (2022). Fine-scale monitoring and mapping of biodiversity and ecosystem services reveals multiple synergies and few tradeoffs in urban green space management. Science of The Total Environment, 849, 157801. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.15780133*Richter, S. M., & Bixler, R. P. (2022). Complexifying urban expansion: An exploratory, gradient-based approach. Buildings and Cities, 3(1), pp. 792–807. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bc.22632*Preisser, M., Passalacqua, P., Bixler, R. P., & Hofmann, J. (2022). Intersecting near-real time fluvial and pluvial inundation estimates with sociodemographic vulnerability to quantify a household flood impact index. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 26(15), 3941–3964. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-3941-202231Bixler, R. P., Belaire, J. A., Faust, K. M., Scoggins, M., & González, A. (2022). Exploring the connection between transdisciplinary co-production and urban sustainability solutions: A case study at an urban stream management symposium. Urban Ecosystems, 25(4), 1207–1216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-022-01226-730Bixler, R. P., Yang, E., Richter, S. M., & Coudert, M. (2021). Boundary crossing for urban community resilience: A social vulnerability and multi-hazard approach in Austin, Texas, USA. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 66, 102613. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.10261329*Hoffman, K., Kyle, G. T., Treadwell, M. L., Bixler, R. P., & Kreuter, U. P. (2021). A Process-Oriented Model of Decision-Making toward Landscape-Scale Prescribed Fire Implementation in the Southern Great Plains, USA. Environmental Management, 68(6), 802–813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-021-01538-y28Bixler, R. P., Paul, S., Jones, J., *Preisser, M., & Passalacqua, P. (2021). Unpacking Adaptive Capacity to Flooding in Urban Environments: Social Capital, Social Vulnerability, and Risk Perception. Frontiers in Water, 3, 101. https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2021.72873027Hoffman, J. K., Bixler, R. P., Treadwell, M. L., Coleman, L. G., McDaniel, T. W., & Kreuter, U. P. (2021). The Impact of Affective Heuristics in Decision-Making Regarding the Implementation of Prescribed Fire on Private Rangelands in the Southern Great Plains, USA. Society & Natural Resources, 34(5), 621–638. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2020.186453426Bixler, R. P. (2020). Fertile Soil for Organic Public Sociology: Community-Based Natural Resource Management. The American Sociologist, 51(4), 558–565. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12108-020-09471-z25*Atshan, S., Bixler, R. P., Rai, V., & Springer, D. W. (2020). Pathways to urban sustainability through individual behaviors: The role of social capital. Environmental Science & Policy, 112, 330–339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2020.07.00524Bixler, R. P., Lieberknecht, K., Atshan, S., Zutz, C. P., *Richter, S. M., & Belaire, J. A. (2020). Reframing urban governance for resilience implementation: The role of network closure and other insights from a network approach. Cities, 103, 102726. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102726Publications above: in rank as Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the LBJ School of Public AffairsPublications below: Assistant Professor of Practice at the LBJ School of Public Affairs23Mansourian, S., Parrotta, J., Balaji, P., Bellwood-Howard, I., Bhasme, S., Bixler, R. P., Boedhihartono, A. K., Carmenta, R., Jedd, T., de Jong, W., Lake, F. K., Latawiec, A., Lippe, M., Rai, N. D., Sayer, J., Van Dexter, K., Vira, B., Visseren-Hamakers, I., Wyborn, C., & Yang, A. (2020). Putting the pieces together: Integration for forest landscape restoration implementation. Land Degradation & Development, 31(4), 419–429. https://doi.org/10.1002/ldr.344822Bixler, R. P., *Atshan, S., Banner, J. L., Tremaine, D., & Mace, R. E. (2019). Assessing integrated sustainability research: Use of social network analysis to evaluate scientific integration and transdisciplinarity in research networks. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 39, 103–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.08.00121Bixler, R. P., Lieberknecht, K., Leite, F., Felkner, J., Oden, M., Richter, S. M., Atshan, S., Zilveti, A., & Thomas, R. (2019). An Observatory Framework for Metropolitan Change: Understanding Urban Social–Ecological–Technical Systems in Texas and Beyond. Sustainability, 11(13), 3611. https://doi.org/10.3390/su1113361120Bixler, R. P., & Springer, D. W. (2018). Nonprofit Social Capital as an Indicator of a Healthy Nonprofit Sector. Nonprofit Policy Forum; Berlin, 9(3). http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/npf-2018-001719Abrams, J., Huber-Stearns, H., *Palmerin, M. L., Bone, C., Nelson, M. F., Bixler, R. P., & Moseley, C. (2018). Does policy respond to environmental change events? An analysis of Mountain Pine Beetle outbreaks in the Western United States. Environmental Science & Policy, 90, 102–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2018.09.01918Nielsen-Pincus, M., *Evers, C., Moseley, C., Huber-Stearns, H., & Bixler, R. P. (2018). Local Capacity to Engage in Federal Wildfire Suppression Efforts: An Explanation of Variability in Local Capture of Suppression Contracts. Forest Science, 64(5), 480–490. https://doi.org/10.1093/forsci/fxy01117Bixler, R. P., Zappone, M., Li, L. R., & Atshan, S. (2018). Unpacking the Role of Data in Philanthropy: Prospects for an Integrated Framework. The Foundation Review, 10(2). https://doi.org/10.9707/1944-5660.1415Publications below: Research Fellow at the LBJ School of Public Affairs16Keske, C. M. H., Bixler, R. P., Bastian, C. T., & Cross, J. E. (2017). Are Population and Land Use Changes Perceived as Threats to Sense of Place in the New West? A Multilevel Modeling Approach. Rural Sociology, 82(2), 263–290. https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.1212115Bixler, R. P. (2017). The “World System” of the Paris Agreement: Exploring the Construction, Dissemination, and Implementation of Climate Knowledge through REDD+. Social Thought & Research, 34, 33–58.14Romolini, M., Bixler, R. P., & Grove, J. M. (2016). A Social-Ecological Framework for Urban Stewardship Network Research to Promote Sustainable and Resilient Cities. Sustainability, 8(9), 956. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8090956Publications below: Prior to joining University of Texas13Bixler, R. P., Johnson, S., Emerson, K., Nabatchi, T., Reuling, M., Curtin, C., Romolini, M., & Grove, J. M. (2016). Networks and landscapes: A framework for setting goals and evaluating performance at the large landscape scale. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(3), 145–153. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.125012Bixler, R. P., Wald, D. M., Ogden, L. A., Leong, K. M., Johnston, E. W., & Romolini, M. (2016). Network governance for large-scale natural resource conservation and the challenge of capture. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(3), 165–171. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.125211Bone, C., Moseley, C., Vinyeta, K., & Bixler, R. P. (2016). Employing resilience in the United States Forest Service. Land Use Policy, 52, 430–438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.01.00310Bixler, R. P., Dell’Angelo, J., Mfune, O., & Roba, H. (2015). The political ecology of participatory conservation: Institutions and discourse. Journal of Political Ecology, 22(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.2458/v22i1.210839Sample, V. A., Bixler, R. P., McDonough, M. H., Bullard, S. H., & Snieckus, M. M. (2015). The Promise and Performance of Forestry Education in the United States: Results of a Survey of Forestry Employers, Graduates, and Educators. Journal of Forestry, 113(6), 528–537. https://doi.org/10.5849/jof.14-1228Jedd, T., & Bixler, R. P. (2015). Accountability in Networked Governance: Learning from a case of landscape-scale forest conservation. Environmental Policy and Governance, 25(3), 172–187. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.16707Pejchar, L., Reed, S. E., Bixler, R. P., Ex, L., & Mockrin, M. H. (2015). Consequences of residential development for biodiversity and human well-being. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 13(3), 146–153. https://doi.org/10.1890/1402276Mattor, K., Betsill, M., Huayhuaca, C., Huber-Stearns, H., Jedd, T., Sternlieb, F., Bixler, R.P., Luizza, M., & Cheng, A. S. (2014). Transdisciplinary research on environmental governance: A view from the inside. Environmental Science & Policy, 42, 90–100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2014.06.0025Bixler, R. P. (2014). From Community Forest Management to Polycentric Governance: Assessing Evidence from the Bottom Up. Society & Natural Resources, 27(2), 155–169. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2013.8400214Bixler, R. P. (2013). The political ecology of local environmental narratives: Power, knowledge, and mountain caribou conservation. Journal of Political Ecology, 20(1), 273–285.3Sternlieb, F., Bixler, R. P., Huber-Stearns, H., & Huayhuaca, C. (2013). A question of fit: Reflections on boundaries, organizations and social–ecological systems. Journal of Environmental Management, 130, 117–125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.08.0532Wyborn, C., & Bixler, R. P. (2013). Collaboration and nested environmental governance: Scale dependency, scale framing, and cross-scale interactions in collaborative conservation. Journal of Environmental Management, 123, 58–67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.03.0141Bixler, R. P., & Taylor, P. (2012). Toward a Community of Innovation in Community-Based Natural Resource Management: Insights from Open Source Software. Human Organization, 71(3), 234–243. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.71.3.200w0j1266306t79Articles in peer-reviewed journals that are not peer-reviewed1Bixler, R. P., McKinney, M., & Scarlett, L. (2016). Forging new models of natural resource governance. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 14(3), 115–115. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.1255Book Chapters (^designates peer-reviewed)6^Bixler, R. P., Paul, S., Bhakta, D., Farchy, T., Olson, J., *Preisser, M., & Passalacqua, P. (2023). Adaptive Governance for Disaster Risk Reduction. In S. Juhola (Ed.), Handbook on Adaptive Governance (pp. 233–251). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/display/book/9781800888241/book-part-9781800888241-26.xml5^Bixler, R. P., & *Jones, J. (2022). Indicators for Community Resilience: Social Vulnerability, Adaptive Capacity, and Multi-Hazard Exposure in Austin, Texas. In F. Ridzi, C. Stevens, & L. Wray (Eds.), Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases IX (pp. 11–25). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06940-6_24Bixler, R. P. (2021). The Knowledge Network: Identifying Actors and Structural Dimensions of Knowledge Transfer. In C. C. Ferreira & C. F. C. Klütsch (Eds.), Closing the Knowledge-Implementation Gap in Conservation Science: Interdisciplinary Evidence Transfer Across Sectors and Spatiotemporal Scales (pp. 143–169). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81085-6_63Beard, B., Bixler, R. P., Darden, T., Huffaker, B., Madison, M., & Van Ness, J. G. (2020). Managing Federal Lands for Wildlife. In N. J. Silvy (Ed.), The Wildlife Techniques Manual (8th ed., Chapter 41). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland.2^Bixler, R. P., Jedd, T., & Wyborn, C. (2018). Polycentric governance and forest landscape restoration: Considering local needs, knowledge types and democratic principles. In Forest Landscape Restoration (pp. 176–197). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/97813151118721Cleaves, D., & Bixler, R.P. (2016). Evolving Institutional and Policy Frameworks to Support Adaptation Strategies. In Sample, V. A., R. P. Bixler, C. Miller (Eds.), Forest Conservation and Management in the Anthropocene: Adaptation of Science, Policy, and Practices (pp. 223–234). University of Colorado Press.Encyclopedia ArticlesBixler, R. P., Reuling, M., Johnson, S., Higgins, S., Williams, S., & Tabor, G. (2018). The Crown of the Continent: A Case Study of Collaborative Climate Adaptation. In D. A. Dellasala & M. I. Goldstein (Eds.), Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (pp. 307–315). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809665-9.09765-2Book ReviewsBixler, R. P. (2014). It’s Not Just Who You Know, but Can You Tell a Story? The Role of Narratives in Network Governance. Public Administration Review, 74(2), 277–280. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12188
