Sara Meerow

Gilbertson, Philip & Sara Meerow. 2024. “Improving the quality of climate change adaptation through state mandate: The case of California.” Journal of the American Planning Association Link

Meerow, Sara & Ladd Keith. 2024. Cities at the forefront of emerging heat governance. Invited Commentary in One Earth. 7(8): 1330-1334. Link

Meerow, Sara, Ladd Keith, Malini Roy, Shaylynn Trego. 2024. “Plan evaluation for heat resilience: Complementary methods to comprehensively assess heat planning in Tempe and Tucson, Arizona.” Environmental Research Letters.19: 084050  Link

Yu, David, Hoon C. Shin, Tomas Olivier, Margaret Garcia, Sara Meerow, Jeryang Park. 2024. Logical interdependencies in infrastructure: What are they, how to identify them, and what do they mean for infrastructure risk analysis? Risk Analysis. Link

Andresen, Adam, Liza C. Kurtz, Paul M. Chakalian, David M. Hondula, Sara Meerow, Melanie Gall. 2024. “A comparative assessment of household power failure coping strategies in three American cities.” Energy Research & Social Science, 114. Link 

Roy, Malini, Sierra C. Woodruff, Sara Meerow, Bryce Hannibal, Melina Matos, Philip Gilbertson. 2024. “Quality of cities’ networks of plans and prospects for flood resilience.” Journal of Planning Education and Research https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X241236486

Meerow, Sara, Bryce Hannibal, Sierra C. Woodruff, Malini Roy, Melina Matos, Philip G. Gilbertson. 2024. “Urban flood resilience networks: Exploring the relationship between governance networks, networks of plans, and spatial flood resilience policies in four coastal cities.” Annals of the American Association of Geographers https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2023.2284299

Keith, Ladd, Sara Meerow, Lauren Jensen; Shaylynn Trego; Erika Schmidt; Philip Berke. 2023. “Evaluating urban heat mitigation across networks of plans.” Journal of Planning Education and Research https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X231215780

Trego, Shaylynn, Sara Meerow, Ladd Keith. 2023. “Heat planning in small and medium-sized cities: A collaborative application of PIRS™ for heat in Kent, WA, USA.” Social-ecological Practice Research. 5: 409-422. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-023-00166-6

Hoover, Fushcia-Ann, Sara Meerow, Emma Coleman, Zbigniew J. Grabowski, Timon McPhearson. 2023. “Why go green? Comparing rationales and planning criteria for green infrastructure in U.S. city plans.” Landscape and Urban Planning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104781

Lobo, José, Rimjhim M. Aggarwal, Marina Alberti, Melissa Allen-Dumas, Luís M.A. Bettencourt, Christopher Boone, Christa Brelsford, Vanesa Castán Broto, Hallie Eakin, Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen, Sara Meerow, Celine D’Cruz, Aromar Revi, Debra C. Roberts, Michael E. Smith, Abigail York, Tao Lin, Xuemei Bai, William Solecki, Diane Pataki, Luís Bojorquez Tapia, Marcy Rockman, Marc Wolfram, Peter Schlosser, Nicolas Gauthier. 2023. “Integration of urban science and urban climate adaptation research: Opportunities to advance climate action.” NPJ Urban Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00113-0

Andresen, Adam, Liza Kurtz, David Hondula, Sara Meerow, Melanie Gall. 2023. “Understanding the Social Impacts of Power Outages in North America: A Systematic Review.” Environmental Research Letters. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acc7b9

Hannibal, Bryce, Sara Meerow, Sierra C. Woodruff, Malini Roy, Philip Gilbertson, Melina Matos. Forthcoming. “Who collaborates on urban resilience? An analysis of flood resilience planning networks in four coastal cities.” Journal of Urban Affairs.  https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2137033

Keith, Ladd & Sara Meerow. 2022. PAS Report 600: Planning for urban heat resilience. Chicago: American Planning Association. www.planning.org/publications/report/9245695/

Matos, Melina. Philip Gilbertson, Sierra C. Woodruff, Sara Meerow, Malini Roy, Bryce Hannibal. 2022. “Comparing hazard mitigation and climate change adaptation planning approaches.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2022.2093171

Woodruff, Sierra C., Sara Meerow, Bryce Hannibal, Melina Matos, Malini Roy, Philip Gilbertson. 2022. “More than the sum of their parts: approaches to understand a network of plans.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0739456X221096395

Newell, Joshua P., Alec Foster, Mariel Bergman, Sara Meerow. 2022. “The ecosystem services of urban agriculture: A study of Detroit.” Cities. 125: 103664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103664

Meerow, Sara & Ladd Keith. 2022. “Planning for extreme heat: A national survey of U.S. planners.” Journal of the American Planning Association. 88(3): 319-344. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2021.1977682

Woodruff, Sierra C., Sara Meerow, Philip Gilbertson, Bryce Hannibal, Melina Matos, Malini Roy, Matthew Malecha, Siyu Yu, Philip Berke. 2021. “Is flood resilience planning improving? A longitudinal analysis of networks of plans in Boston and Fort Lauderdale.” Climate Risk Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2021.100354

Muñoz-Erickson, Tischa A., Sara Meerow, Robert Hobbins, Elizabeth Cook, David Iwaniec, Marta Berbés-Blázquez, Nancy Grimm, Allain Barnett, Jan Cordero, Changdeok Gim, Thaddeus R. Miller, Fernando Tandazo, Agustín Robles. 2021. “Beyond bouncing back? Comparing and contesting urban resilience in US and Latin American contexts.” Landscape and Urban Planning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104173

Hoover, Fushcia, Sara Meerow, Zbigniew J. Grabowski, Timon McPhearson. 2021 “Environmental Justice Implications of Siting Criteria in Urban Green Infrastructure Planning.” Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2021.1945916

Matsler, A. Marissa, Sara Meerow, Ian C. Mell, Mitchell A. Pavao-Zuckerman. 2021. “A ‘Green’ Chameleon: exploring the many disciplinary definitions, goals, and forms of ‘green infrastructure’.” Landscape and Urban Planning. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2021.104145

Meerow, Sara & Fabian G. Neuner. 2021. “Positively resilient? How framing local action affects public opinion.” Urban Affairs Review. 57(1): 70-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087420905655

Fastiggi, Mary, Sara Meerow, Thaddeus R. Miller. 2021. “Governing urban resilience: Organizational structures and coordination strategies in 20 North American city governments.” Urban Studies. 58(6): 1262-1285. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098020907277           

Meerow, Sara. Kelli Larson, Alysha M. Helmrich, Riley Andrade. 2021. “How do heat and flood risk drive residential green infrastructure implementation in Phoenix, Arizona.” Urban Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-01088-x

Meerow, Sara, Mukunth Natarajan, David Krantz. 2021. “A review of green infrastructure performance in arid and semi-arid environments.” Urban Water Journal. 18(4): 275-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/1573062X.2021.1877741

Smith, Jordan, Sara Meerow, Billie Lee Turner II. 2021. “Planning urban community gardens strategically through multicriteria decision analysis.” Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 58: 126897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126897

Meerow, Sara. 2020. “The politics of multifunctional green infrastructure planning in New York City.” Cities. 100: 102621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102621

Meerow, Sara & Sierra Woodruff. 2020. “Seven principles of strong climate change planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association. 86(1): 39-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2019.1652108

Keith, Ladd, Sara Meerow, Tess Wagner. 2019. “Planning for extreme heat: A review.” Journal of Extreme Events. 6 (3&4): 2050003 https://doi.org/10.1142/S2345737620500037

Meerow, Sara. 2020. “The politics of multifunctional green infrastructure planning in New York City.” Cities. 100: 102621. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.10262

Meerow, Sara & Fabian G. Neuner. 2020. “Positively resilient? How framing local action affects public opinion.” Urban Affairs Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087420905655

Meerow, Sara & Sierra Woodruff. 2020. “Seven principles of strong climate change planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association. 86(1): 39-46. https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2019.1652108

Meerow, Sara. 2019. “A Green Infrastructure Spatial Planning model for evaluating ecosystem service tradeoffs and synergies across three coastal megacities.” Environmental Research Letters. 14: 125011. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab502c

Feagan, Mathieu, Marissa Matsler, Sara Meerow, Tischa A. Muñoz-Erickson, Robert Hobbins, Changdeok Gim, Clark Miller. 2019. “Redesigning knowledge systems for urban resilience.” Environmental Science & Policy. 101: 358-363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2019.07.014 

Meerow, Sara, Pani Pajouhesh, Thaddeus Miller. 2019. “Social equity in urban resilience planning.” Local Environment. 24(9): 793-808. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2019.1645103

Meerow, Sara and Joshua P. Newell. 2019. “Urban resilience for whom, what, when, where, and why?” Urban Geography 40(3): 309-329. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1206395

Larson, Kelli, Elizabeth Corley, Riley Andrade, Sharon Hall, Abigail York, Sara Meerow, Paul Coseo, Dan Childers, & David Hondula. 2019. "Subjective evaluations of ecosystem services and disservices: an approach to creating robust survey scales" Ecology & Society. 24(2): 7. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10888-240207

Moser, Susanne, Sara Meerow, James C. Arnott, Emily Jack-Scott. 2019. “The Turbulent world of resilience: Interpretations and themes for transdisciplinary dialogue.” Climatic Change. 153(1-2): 21-40.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-018-2358-0

 Zhang, Zhenzhen, Sara Meerow, Joshua P. Newell, Mark Lindquist. 2019. “Enhancing Landscape Connectivity through Multifunctional Green Infrastructure Corridor Modeling and Design.” Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. 38: 305-317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2018.10.014    

Woodruff, Sierra, Sara Meerow, Melissa Stults, Chandler Wilkins. 2018. “Adaptation to Resilience Planning: Alternative pathways to prepare for climate change.” Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0739456X18801057

Meerow, Sara and Carrie L. Mitchell. 2017. “Weathering the storm: The politics of urban climate change adaptation planning.” Environment and Planning A. 49(11): 2619-2627. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0308518X17735225

Meerow, Sara. 2017. “Double exposure, infrastructure planning, and urban climate change resilience in coastal megacities: A case study of Manila.” Environment and Planning A. 49(11): 2649-2672. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0308518X17723630

Meerow, Sara and Joshua P. Newell. 2017. “Spatial planning for multifunctional green infrastructure: Growing resilience in Detroit.” Landscape and Urban Planning. 159: 62-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.10.005

Meerow, Sara and Melissa Stults. 2016. “Comparing conceptualizations of urban climate resilience in theory and practice.” Sustainability. 8(7): 701. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8070701

Meerow, Sara, Joshua P. Newell, Melissa Stults. 2016. “Defining Urban Resilience: A Review.” Landscape and Urban Planning. 147: 38-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.11.011

Nordgren, John, Melissa Stults, Sara Meerow. 2016. “Supporting Local Climate Change Adaptation: Where we are and where we need to go.” Environmental Science and Policy. 66: 344-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2016.05.006

Meerow, Sara and Joshua P. Newell. 2015. “Resilience and Complexity: A Bibliometric Review and Prospects for Industrial Ecology.” Journal of Industrial Ecology. 19(2): 236-251. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.12252

Meerow, Sara and Isa Baud. 2012. “Generating Resilience: Exploring the Contribution of the Small Power Producer and Very Small Power Producer Programs to the Resilience of Thailand’s Power Sector.” International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development. 4(1): 20-38. https://doi.org/10.1080/19463138.2012.667414

Mans, Ulrich and Sara Meerow. 2012. “Linking Green City Politics with Green Business” in Simpson and Zimmerman (Eds.), The Economy of Green Cities: World Compendium on the Green Urban Economy. ICLEI-Springer Series: Local Sustainability 3. Dordrecht: Springer.

Lindberg, Staffan and Sara Meerow. 2011. “Persistent Authoritarianism and the Future of Democracy in Africa” in Brown (ed.) Democratization: Doubt, Dictatorship, Diffusion, and Development. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.