Mónica Ballinas

Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias México — Mexico

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

6h-index267citations17works0.02yr avg
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Research Topics

Urban Heat Island Mitigation(13), Building Energy and Comfort Optimization(6), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(5), Climate Change and Health Impacts(3), Urban Green Space and Health(2)

Publications17 total

Spatial–Temporal Analysis of PM2.5 Contamination, Thermal Pollution, and Population Social Backwardness in the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City
Geographies·2026Open Access
Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers
Plants People Planet·2025Open Access
Constructing the Urban Landscape Through Heat Turbulence Fluxes as a Passive Form to Mitigate Urban Heat Islands
Land·2025Open Access
A New and Easy Method to Determine the Energy Stored in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Mexico City
Urban Science·2024Open Access
An Old Novel Method to Determine the Energy Stored in Urban Areas: A Case Study of Mexico City
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
How Important Are Fog and the Cloud Forest as a Water Supply in Eastern Mexico?
Water·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Is PET an Adequate Index to Determine Human Thermal Comfort in Mexico City?
Sustainability·2022· 3 citedOpen Access
(Re)Designing Urban Parks to Maximize Urban Heat Island Mitigation by Natural Means
Forests·2022· 26 citedOpen Access
Is PET an Adequate Index to Determine Human Thermal Comfort in Mexico City?
Preprints.org·2022· 6 citedOpen Access
Estimation of anthropogenic heat release in Mexico City
Urban Climate·2022· 19 cited
A reflexion on the environmental effect on the transmission of COVID-19
2021Open Access
Implications of the urban heat island and global climate change and nutritional status on the human thermal comfort in Mexico City
2021Open Access
Effect of heavy metals and environmental variables on the assimilation of CO2 and stomatal conductance of Ligustrum lucidum, an urban tree from Mexico City
Urban forestry & urban greening·2019· 24 cited
Transpiration and stomatal conductance as potential mechanisms to mitigate the heat load in Mexico City
Urban forestry & urban greening·2016· 54 cited
The Urban Tree as a Tool to Mitigate the Urban Heat Island in Mexico City: A Simple Phenomenological Model
Journal of Environmental Quality·2015· 121 cited
Estimating evapotranspiration in the central mountain region of Veracruz, Mexico
Bosque (Valdivia)·2015· 8 citedOpen Access
Estimation of the evapotranspiration in the central highlands of Veracruz, eastern México
New Frontiers in Tropical Biology: The Next 50 Years (A Joint Meeting of ATBC and OTS)·2013

Frequent Co-authors

Vı́ctor L. Barradas(15), Manuel Esperón‐Rodríguez(5), Martín Bonifacio-Bautista(3), Adriana Lira(3), Sara Ivonne Morales-Santiago(2), Gerardo Oliva-Salinas(2), Jennifer A. Miranda(1), Irma Estefanía García-Sánchez(1), Claudia Alejandra Ponce de León-Hill(1), Irma Rosas‐Pérez(1), Arón Jazcilevich(1), Antonio Sánchez-Falfan(1), Juan Cervantes Pérez(1), Sean Rodolfo S. Vilchis-Martínez(1), Juan Gerardo Oliva Salinas(1), Stefan K. Arndt(1), Michael Osei Asibey(1), Benno A. Augustinus(1), Albert Bach(1), David N. Barton(1)