Publications
Azizi, K., Bixler, R. P., & Passalacqua, P. Gaps and opportunities for collaborative flood governance: Network-analytic insights from the US gulf coast. https://www.authorea.com/doi/full/10.22541/essoar.172770781.19398056?commit=1b469d47c8a55a85b7022d20c82aaede0b80f7c4
Bixler, R. P., & Jones, J. (2022). Indicators for Community Resilience: Social Vulnerability, Adaptive Capacity, and Multi-Hazard Exposure in Austin, Texas. In Community Quality-of-Life Indicators: Best Cases IX. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06940-6_2
Bixler, 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.2022.1015630
Bixler, R. P., Paul, S., Bhakta, D., Farchy, T., Olson, J., Preisser, M., & Passalacqua, P. (2023). Adaptive governance for disaster risk reduction. In Handbook on Adaptive Governance. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781800888241/book-part-9781800888241-26.xml
Bixler, 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 . https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frwa.2021.728730
Bixler, 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.2021.102613
D'Angelo, C., Passalacqua, P., Fiori, A., & Volpi, E. (2022). Identification of flood-prone areas with GeoFlood: Lessons learned from the Tiber River case study. Journal of Flood Risk Management 15 (2) , e12795 . https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12795
Hwang, 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 105 (6) , 1938-1952 . https://doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13452
Hwang, 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/10.1080/02732173.2023.2279968
Hwang, 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-1658
Jarriel, T., Swartz, J., & Passalacqua, P. (2021). Global rates and patterns of channel migration in river deltas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (46) . https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2103178118
Lewis, M., Moftakhari, H., & Passalacqua, P. (2024). Challenges for compound coastal flood risk management in a warming climate: a case study of the Gulf Coast of the United States. Frontiers in Water 6 . https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1405603
Ma, 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.2024.104353
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-2023-0018
Paul, 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.2025.104072
Preisser, M., & Passalacqua, P. (2025). Remote Sensing Improves Multi-Hazard Flooding and Extreme Heat Detection by Fivefold Over Current Estimates. AGU Advances 6 (2) , e2025AV001667 . https://doi.org/10.1029/2025AV001667
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://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frwa.2023.1278205
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-26-3941-2022
Swartz, J. M., Cardenas, B. T., Mohrig, D., & Passalacqua, P. (2022). Tributary channel networks formed by depositional processes. Nature Geoscience 15 (3) , 216-221 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00900-x
Wang, M., Passalacqua, P., Cai, S., & Dawson, C. (2024). c-HAND: near real-time coastal flood mapping. Frontiers in Water 6 . https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1329109
Zhang, X., Wright, K., Passalacqua, P., Simard, M., & Fagherazzi, S. (2022). Improving Channel Hydrological Connectivity in Coastal Hydrodynamic Models With Remotely Sensed Channel Networks. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface 127 (3) , e2021JF006294 . https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JF006294
Zheng, X., D'Angelo, C., Maidment, D. R., & Passalacqua, P. (2022). Application of a Large-Scale Terrain-Analysis-Based Flood Mapping System to Hurricane Harvey. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 58 (2) , 149–163 .
Zoll, 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 50 , 101576 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101576