Walsh SJ and Mena CF, Editors (2013) Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands: Frameworks and Perspectives. Springer Science & Business Media. New York.
Torres ML and Mena CF, Editors (2018) Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands: From the Molecular to the Landscape. Springer Science & Business Media. New York.
Encalada AC, Guayasamin JM, Suárez E, Mena CF, et al. (2019). Los ríos de las cuencas Andino-Amazónicas: Herramientas, y guía de invertebrados para el diseño efectivo de programas de monitoreo. Trama, Quito, 224 pp
Walsh SJ, Mena CF, Stewart JR, Munoz JP, Editors, (Forthcoming 2023). Island Ecosystems: Challenges to Sustainability. “Social and Ecological Interactions in the Galapagos Islands” (SJ Walsh, CF Mena, Series Editors), Springer Nature.
Papers
In Review, in Press, Pre-print
Mena CF, Benitez FL, Jager H, Carrion C, Escobar D, Rosero P, Maldonado P, Cuesta F (In Review). Modeling of invasive species and restoration in the context of climate change: the case of guava in the Galapagos Islands. Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Orta-Martinez M, Arsel M, Pellegrini M, Mena CF. (In review). Barriers to redress of environmental harm from oil extraction in the Amazon. Environmental Research Letters
Orta-Martínez M, Arsel M, Pellegrini L, Muñoa G, Mena CF (Accepted). Unburnable fossil fuels and Climate Finance: compensation for right holders. Global Environmental Politics
Mena CF, Lozada B, Martinez P, Benitez FL, Sampedro C, Zapata MB (In Press). COVID19 and Domestic Violence Complaints in Quito, Ecuador: Temporal and Spatial Patterns, and Drivers, in: Laituri M, Richardson BR, Kim J (Editors). The Geographies of COVID-19: Geospatial of Global Pandemics. Springer Nature, New York.
Márquez, S.; Prado-Vivar, B.; Guadalupe, J. J.; Becerra-Wong, M.; Gutierrez, B.; Fernández-Cadena, J. C.; Andrade-Molina, D.; Morey-Leon, G.; Moncayo, M.; Guevara, R.; Coloma, J.; Trueba, G.; Grunauer, M.; Barragán, V.; Rojas-Silva, P.; Cárdenas, P.; Ramones, A.; Tino, A.; Carrera, A.; Macias, A.; Garcia, A.; Guerrero, C.; Mena, C.F, et al. (2022) SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing from COVID-19 in Ecuadorian patients: A whole country analysis. medRxiv
2022
Mena CF, Benitez FL, Sampedro C, Martinez P, Quispe A, Laituri M. (2022). Modeling Urban Growth and the Impacts of Climate Change: The Case of Esmeraldas City, Ecuador. Sustainability. 14(8):4704.
2021
Lee, GO, Vasco L, Márquez S, Zuniga-Moya JC, Van Engen A, Uruchima J, Ponce P, Cevallos W, Trueba G, Trostle J, Berrocal VJ, Morrison AC, Cevallos V, Mena CF., Coloma J, Eisenberg JNS. (2021). A dengue outbreak in a rural community in Northern Coastal Ecuador: An analysis using unmanned aerial vehicle mapping. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 15 (9), e0009679.
Paltan H, Benitez FL, Rosero P, Esbobar—Camacho D, Cuesta F, Mena CF (2021). Climate of the Galapagos Archipiealgo: Present and Future Trends. Scientific Reports 11, 14465
Escobar-Camacho D, Rosero P, Castrejón M, Mena CF, Cuesta F (2021). Prioritizing key conservation areas to increase the resilience and adaptive capacity in oceanic islands: the case of the Galapagos Archipelago. Regional Environmental Change 21 (2), 1-26
2020
Pellegrini L, Arsel M, Mena CF, Muñoa G. (2020). Institutional mechanisms to keep unburnable fossil fuel reserves in the soil. Energy Policy 149, 112029
Gunderson AK, Kumar RE, Recalde-Coronel C, Vasco LE, Valle-Campos A, Mena CF, Zaitchik BF, Lescano AG, Pan WK, Janko MM. (2020). Malaria transmission and spillover across the Peru-Ecuador border: a spatio-temporal analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17(20):7434.
Mena CF, Quiroga D, Walsh SJ. (2020). Threats to sustainability in the Galapagos Islands: a socioecological perspective. In: Sarmiento FO and Frolich LM (Editors), International Handbook of Geography and Sustainability. Edward Elgar Publishing, UK
Pellegrini L, Arsel M. Orta-Martínez M, Mena CF. (2020). International Investment Agreements, Human Rights, and Environmental Justice: The Texaco/Chevron Case from the Ecuadorian Amazon. Journal of International Economic Law 23(2):455-468.
Mena CF, Paltán H, Benitez FL, Sampedro C, Valverde M. (2020). Threats of Climate Change in Samall Oceanic Islands: The case of Climate and Agriculture in the Galapagos Islands, in Walsh, S.J., Riveros-Iregui, D., Arce-Nazario, J., Page, P.H., Land Cover/Land Use Change on Islands: Threats to Sustainability, Springer Nature, NY.
2019
Hurlbert M, Krishnaswamy J, Davin E, Johnson F, Mena CF, Morton J, Myeong S, Viner D, Warner K, Wreford A, Zakieldeen S, Zommers Z, (2019). Risk Management and Decision making in Relation to Sustainable Development. In, Shukla PR, Skea J, et. al, (Editors), Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Mena CF, Arsel M, Pellegrini L, Orta-Martinez, Fajardo P, Chavez E, Guevara A, Espin P. (2019) Community-based Monitoring of Oil Extraction: Lesson Learned in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Society and Natural Resources 33(3): 406-417
Arsel M, Pellegrini L, Mena CF (2019). Maria's Paradox: Oil Extraction and the Misery of Missing Development Alternatives in the Ecuadorian Amazon, in Kanbur R, Sandbrook R, and Shaffer P (Editors), Immiserizing Growth: When Growth Fails the Poor. Oxford Academy Press, UK
Pizzitutti F, Mena CF, Feingold B, Pan W. (2019). Modeling asymptomatic infections and work-related human circulation as drivers of unstable malaria transmission in low-prevalence areas: a study in the Northern Peruvian Amazon. Acta Tropica 197, 104909
Espin PA, Pizzitutti F, Mena CF (2019). A Model-Based Approach to Study the Tourism Sustainability in an Island Environment: The Case of Galapagos Islands, in: Kvan T and Karakiewicz J (Editors) Urban Galapagos. Springer Nature, NY
2018
Sampedro C, Pizzitutti F, Quiroga D, Walsh SJ, Mena CF (2018). Food Supply System Dynamics in in the Galapagos Islands: Agriculture, Livestock, and Imports. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 1-15
Pizzitutti F, Pan W, Feingold B, Zaitchik B, Alvarez C, Mena CF (2018). Out of the net: An agent-based model to study human movements influence on local-scale malaria transmission. PloS One (13)3: e0193493
Rivas-Torres G, Benitez FL, Rueda D, Sevilla C, Mena CF. (2018). Vegetation Map of the Galápagos: An Object-Oriented classification using LANDSAT-OLI and verification by UAVs to interpret native and invasive coverage in the Ecuadorian archipelago. Progress in Physical Geography 42(1):83-111
Benitez FL, Mena CF, Zurita-Arthos L. (2018). Urban Land Cover Change, in Ecologically Fragile Environments: the case of the Galapagos Islands, Land 7(21):1-19
Torres ML, Mena CF. (2018) Conclusion and Management Implications, in Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands: From the Molecular to the Landscape, Torres ML and Mena CF (Editors). Springer Science & Business Media. New York.
Sampedro C, Mena CF. (2018) Comparison of pixel-based, principal components and object-oriented image classification approaches – a case study in the Agricultural area of San Cristobal Island, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador in Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands: From the Molecular to the Landscape, Torres ML and Mena CF (Editors). Springer Science & Business Media. New York.
2017
Mena CF, Martínez, P, Sampedro C, Laso F. (2017). Land Change Scenarios From the Expansion of the Extractive Frontier in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Carbon Emissions and Deforestation Using Road Network And Land Use Change Simulations. Journal of Land Use Science 12(6):477-492.
Sellers S, Bilsborrow RE, Salinas V, Mena CF. (2017) Population and development in the Amazon: A longitudinal study of migrant settlers in Ecuador. Acta Amazonica 47(4):321-330.
Walsh SJ, Page PH, Brewington, Bradley JR, Mena CF. (2017). A Beach Vulnerability Framework for the Galapagos Islands: Fusion of World-View 2 Imagery, 3-D Laser Scanner Data & Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Comprehensive Remote Sensing: Societal Benefits, Walsh SJ (Editor). Elsevier. Oxford, UK.
Mena CF, Sampedro C, Martinez PE, Encarnación A, Zambrano D. (2017). Remote Sensing of Oil Spills: Linking Community Monitoring and Satellite Image Processing in the Ecuadorian Amazon in Comprehensive Remote Sensing: Societal Benefits, Walsh SJ (Editor). Elsevier. Oxford, UK.
Pizzitutti F, Walsh SJ, Rindfuss RR, Reck G, Tippett R, Quiroga D, Mena CF. (2017). Scenario Planning for Tourism Management: A System Dynamics Simulation Approach Applied to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. Journal of Sustainable Tourism 25(8): 1117-1137
2016
Walsh SJ and Mena CF. (2016). Coupled Human-Natural Systems: Interactions of Social, Terrestrial & Marine Sub-Systems in the Galapagos Islands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences PNAS. October 10, 2016, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1604990113.
2015
Pizzitutti, F, Pan W, Barbieri A, Miranda J, Feingold B, Guedes G, Alarcon-Valenzuela J, Mena CF. (2015). A validated agent-based model to study the spatial and temporal heterogeneities of malaria incidence in the rainforest environment. Malaria Journal 15:514
Lerner A, Rudel T., Schneider L, Mcdroddy M, Burbano D, Mena CF. (2015). The Spontaneous Emergence of Silvopastoral Landscapes in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Patterns and Processes. Journal or Regional Environmental Change 15 (1421).
2014
Cabrera P, Mena CF. (2014). Using Remote Sensing and a Cellular Automata-Markov Chains-GEOMOD model for the Quantification of the Future Spread of an Invasive Plant: A Case Study of Psidium guajava in Isabela Island, Galapagos. International Journal of Geoinformatics 10(3) 23-30.
Walsh SJ, Carter RW, Lieske S, Quiroga, F, Mena CF. (2014) Examining Threats to Iconic National Parks through Modeling Global Change, Biocomplexity, and Human Dynamics. The George Wright Forum, 31(3): 311–323
Samonte-Tan G., Suman D, Mate J, Quiroga D, Mena CF, Catzim-Sanchez A, Fong P, Wang X. (2014). Governance is critical to managing coastal and marine resources: effects of marine management areas. In Nunes P.A.L.D, Kumar P, and Dedeurwaerdere T (Editors) Handbook on the Economics and Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity. Edward Elgar Publishing. Oxon, UK.
Burbano D, Mena CF, Guarderas P, Vinueza L, Reck G (2014). Shifting Baselines in the Galapagos White Fin Fishery, Using Fisher’s Anecdotes to Reassess Fisheries Management: The Case of the Galapagos Grouper in Denkinger J and Vinueza L (Eds) The Galapagos Marine Reserve: A Dynamic Social–Ecological System. Springer, New York, NY.
Pizzitutti F, Mena CF, Walsh SJ (2014). Agent-Based Model of touristic offers reservation in the Galapagos Islands. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 17(1)14.
Arsel M, Mena CF, Pellegrini L, and Radhuber I (2014). Evolving Property Structures of Minerals: Reflections on how to Theorize ‘Nationalization’ in Bolivia and Ecuador’ in Bavinck, M., Pellegrini, L. and Mostert, E. (eds.) Conflict and Cooperation over Natural Resources – Conceptual Approaches. CRC Press. Boca Raton, FL
Brewington L, Frizzelle B, Walsh SJ, CF Mena, and Sampedro (2014). Remote Sensing of the Marine Environment: Challenges and Opportunities in the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador in Denkinger J and Vinueza L (Eds) The Galapagos Marine Reserve: A Dynamic Social–Ecological System. Springer, New York.
2013
Engie K, Walsh S.J, Brewington L, Mena CF (2013). Collaborative Learning & Global Education: Human-Environment Interactions in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Journal of Geography 112(5): 179-192
2012
Bilsborrow RE, Mena CF, Arguello (2012) Colombian Refugees in Ecuador: Sampling Scheme, Demographic Characteristics, and Migratory Patterns. International Journal of Global Environmental Issues 11(3/4): 271 – 298
2011
Mena CF, Walsh SJ, Frizzelle FG, Xiaozheng Y, Malanson GP (2011) Land Use Change on Household Farms in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Design and Implementation of an Agent-Based Model. Applied Geography 31: 210-222.
Walsh SJ, Malanson GP, Brown DG, Messina JP, Mena CF (2011). Biocomplexity. In: Handbook of Biogeography, M. Blumler M, G. MacDonald, A. Millington, U. Schickhoff (Editors), Sage Publications, London. 2010
Walsh SJ, McCleary A, Heumann B, Brewington L, Raczkowski E, Mena CF. (2010). Community Expansion and Infrastructure Development: Implications for Human Health and Environmental Quality in the Galápagos Islands of Ecuador. Journal of Latin American Geography 9(3): 137-159
Lu, F, Gray C, Bilsborrow RE, Mena CF, Erlien CM, Bremner J, Barbieri A, and Walsh SJ (2010), Contrasting Colonist and Indigenous Impacts on Amazonian Forests. Conservation Biology 24 (3): 881 – 885
Brondizio ES, Cak A, Caldas M, Mena CF; Bilsborrow R, Futemma CT, Moran EF, Batistella M, and Ludewigs T. (2010). Small Farmers and Deforestation in Amazônia. In M. Keller, M. Bustamante, J. Gash, and P. Silva Dias (eds.) Amazônia and Global Change: A Synthesis of LBA Research. World Scientific Publishing (American Geophysical Union, Geophysical Monograph Series 186). Pp. 117-143. 2009
Walsh, SJ, Mena CF, DeHart J, Frizzelle FG (2009). Stylized environments and ABMs: educational tools for examining the causes and consequences of land use/land cover change. Geocarto International, 24: 1752-0762 Mena, CF (2008). Trajectories of Land Use and Land Cover in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon: Temporal Composition, Spatial Configuration, and Probability of Change. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 74(6): 737-752
Walsh, SJ, Shao Y, Mena CF, McCleary A (2008). Integration of Hyperion Satellite Data and a Household Social Survey to Characterize the Causes and Consequences of Reforestation Patterns in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 74(6): 725-736
Walsh SJ, McCleary A, Mena CF, Tuttle J, Shao Y, Atkinson R, Gonzales A (2008). Hyper-Spatial and Hyper-Spectral Remote Sensing of an Invasive Plant in the Galapagos National Park and Archipelago: Spatial Structure and Implications for Control. Remote Sensing of the Environment 112(5):1927-1941
Walsh SJ, Messina JP, Mena CF, Malanson GP, Page PH (2008). Complexity and Land Use Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon, GeoForum 39:867-878.
Rindfuss RR, Entwisle B, Walsh SJ, An L, Badenoch N, Brown DG, Deadman P, Evans TP, Fox J, Geoghegan J, Gutmann M, Kelly M, Linderman M, Liu J, Malanson G P, Mena CF, et al. (2008) "Land use change: complexity and comparisons" Journal of Land Use Science 3(1): 1 – 10 2007
Rindfuss RR, Entwisle B, Walsh SJ, Mena CF, Erlien CM, Gray CL (2007). Frontier Land Use Change: Synthesis and Next Steps, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 97(4): 739-754
2006
Mena CF, Bilsborrow RE, McClain ME (2006). Socioeconomic Drivers of Deforestation in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. Environmental Management 37(6): 802-815. Mena CF, Barbieri A, Walsh SJ, Erlien CM, Bilsborrow RE, Lu F (2006). Pressure on the Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve: Development and Land Use/Cover Change in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon. World Development 34(10): 1831-1849.
Messina J, Walsh SJ, Mena CF, Delamater P (2006). Land Tenure and Deforestation Patterns in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Conflicts in Land Conservation in Frontier Settings. Applied Geography 26(2): 113-128.
Erlien CM, Tuttle JP, McCleary AL, Mena CF, Walsh SJ (2006). Complexity Theory and Spatial Models of Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics: Implications of “What if” Scenarios for Education, Land Management, and Decision-Making, Geocarto 21(4):67-74.