Sara Meerow
@sarameerow.bsky.social
Associate Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University
Working on urban resilience, climate change adaptation (especially heat and flooding), and green infrastructure
Working on urban resilience, climate change adaptation (especially heat and flooding), and green infrastructure
New open access publication with Paul Schulze based on his undergraduate thesis, which he completed in AZ as part of the NEURUS research exchange program! It looks at how local water planners in the Phoenix Metro are adapting to future water system uncertainties doi.org/10.1007/s110...
October 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
New open access publication with Paul Schulze based on his undergraduate thesis, which he completed in AZ as part of the NEURUS research exchange program! It looks at how local water planners in the Phoenix Metro are adapting to future water system uncertainties doi.org/10.1007/s110...
New article on #heat governance & climate services. We interviewed and surveyed heat practitioners from across the US about their challenges and decision-support needs: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
August 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
New article on #heat governance & climate services. We interviewed and surveyed heat practitioners from across the US about their challenges and decision-support needs: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
It's hot almost everywhere & our team has 2 new studies of #heat #planning both led by former master's students: One on #Vienna, Austria and the other looking at 2 neighborhoods in #Boston:
Vienna: authors.elsevier.com/a/1la4Z7sfVZ...
Boston: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Vienna: authors.elsevier.com/a/1la4Z7sfVZ...
Boston: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
August 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It's hot almost everywhere & our team has 2 new studies of #heat #planning both led by former master's students: One on #Vienna, Austria and the other looking at 2 neighborhoods in #Boston:
Vienna: authors.elsevier.com/a/1la4Z7sfVZ...
Boston: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Vienna: authors.elsevier.com/a/1la4Z7sfVZ...
Boston: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Some good news today: 2 of the geography PhD students in my lab successfully defended their dissertations! Congrats to new Drs. Philip Gilbertson and Alex Cliff for your persistence and important work on climate resilience!
July 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Some good news today: 2 of the geography PhD students in my lab successfully defended their dissertations! Congrats to new Drs. Philip Gilbertson and Alex Cliff for your persistence and important work on climate resilience!
New paper led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social proposing a planning framework for navigating synergies and trade-offs between heat and flood resilience & applying it to evaluate Baltimore, MD's network of plans. Part of our team's new work on multihazard resilience authors.elsevier.com/c/1lIRw7t2zZ...
June 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New paper led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social proposing a planning framework for navigating synergies and trade-offs between heat and flood resilience & applying it to evaluate Baltimore, MD's network of plans. Part of our team's new work on multihazard resilience authors.elsevier.com/c/1lIRw7t2zZ...
As summer heats up and communities prepare, people often want to know what Phoenix, America's hottest large city, is doing to mitigate & manage heat. PhD student @shaylynntrego.bsky.social led this case study now published in the Journal of Urban Affairs: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
@laddkeith.com
@laddkeith.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As summer heats up and communities prepare, people often want to know what Phoenix, America's hottest large city, is doing to mitigate & manage heat. PhD student @shaylynntrego.bsky.social led this case study now published in the Journal of Urban Affairs: doi.org/10.1080/0735...
@laddkeith.com
@laddkeith.com
New #OpenAccess publication from our team led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social: Systematic lit review of methods for spatial planning of green infrastructure for #stormwater & #heat mitigation reveals siloed literatures & few multifunctional approaches #GreenInfrastructure #NBS doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...
April 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
New #OpenAccess publication from our team led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social: Systematic lit review of methods for spatial planning of green infrastructure for #stormwater & #heat mitigation reveals siloed literatures & few multifunctional approaches #GreenInfrastructure #NBS doi.org/10.1016/j.uf...
Kicking off 4 days of #urban #greening curated track sessions at #AAG2025 in Huntington Place rm 320. Join us #UrbanForestry, #GreenInfrastructure, #NatureBasedSolution folks!
March 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Kicking off 4 days of #urban #greening curated track sessions at #AAG2025 in Huntington Place rm 320. Join us #UrbanForestry, #GreenInfrastructure, #NatureBasedSolution folks!
Our special issue on #Green #Infrastructure Futures is now complete in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Including our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ianmell.bsky.social @mitchzuckerman.bsky.social @oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social & Sarah Clement
Including our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ianmell.bsky.social @mitchzuckerman.bsky.social @oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social & Sarah Clement
March 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Our special issue on #Green #Infrastructure Futures is now complete in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Including our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ianmell.bsky.social @mitchzuckerman.bsky.social @oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social & Sarah Clement
Including our editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@ianmell.bsky.social @mitchzuckerman.bsky.social @oh-the-urbanity.bsky.social & Sarah Clement
Requirements for US climate change planning are now almost certainly going to have to come from state governments. Our research on California suggests that even a flexible, unfunded, & untracked mandate improves planning
doi.org/10.1080/0194...
50 free downloads: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IHS3P...
doi.org/10.1080/0194...
50 free downloads: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IHS3P...
March 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Requirements for US climate change planning are now almost certainly going to have to come from state governments. Our research on California suggests that even a flexible, unfunded, & untracked mandate improves planning
doi.org/10.1080/0194...
50 free downloads: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IHS3P...
doi.org/10.1080/0194...
50 free downloads: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/IHS3P...
As the end of my sabbatical fellowship in Munich rapidly approaches, I was able to squeeze in a quick first visit to the beautiful Sciences Po and participate in their inspiring Nature in the City conference! Lots of good discussions about #cities and #naturebasedsolutions
December 12, 2024 at 4:37 PM
As the end of my sabbatical fellowship in Munich rapidly approaches, I was able to squeeze in a quick first visit to the beautiful Sciences Po and participate in their inspiring Nature in the City conference! Lots of good discussions about #cities and #naturebasedsolutions
It’s been a busy week of @humboldt-foundation.de events, first with TUM Humboldt fellows in Munich and then with fellows from all over Germany in Erlangen!
November 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM
It’s been a busy week of @humboldt-foundation.de events, first with TUM Humboldt fellows in Munich and then with fellows from all over Germany in Erlangen!
Communities can now apply to be part of the first cohort of our #NIHHIS Center for Heat Resilient Communities and get support for heat resilience planning. Apply by Jan 24 bit.ly/3OhSkIc
November 20, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Communities can now apply to be part of the first cohort of our #NIHHIS Center for Heat Resilient Communities and get support for heat resilience planning. Apply by Jan 24 bit.ly/3OhSkIc
Great opportunity for 2 PhD students to start in Fall 2025 in our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU working with one of my three great colleagues Aaron, Lindsay, or Jose-Benito on health disparities. For more details: lnkd.in/gWG_KQyB
November 18, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Great opportunity for 2 PhD students to start in Fall 2025 in our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU working with one of my three great colleagues Aaron, Lindsay, or Jose-Benito on health disparities. For more details: lnkd.in/gWG_KQyB
On sabbatical! I'll be a Humboldt Research Fellow working on urban green infrastructure and resilience in Munich through the end of 2024! Looking forward to catching up with European colleagues while I'm here, starting next week with the Human Geographies of Adaptation conference in Bergen #HGA2024
May 7, 2024 at 4:50 PM
On sabbatical! I'll be a Humboldt Research Fellow working on urban green infrastructure and resilience in Munich through the end of 2024! Looking forward to catching up with European colleagues while I'm here, starting next week with the Human Geographies of Adaptation conference in Bergen #HGA2024
We use the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ method to spatially analyze cities' policies with the potential to enhance flood resilience, which we've also explored longitudinally: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... & adapted in another project to #heat doi.org/10.1177/0739...
January 23, 2024 at 7:03 PM
We use the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ method to spatially analyze cities' policies with the potential to enhance flood resilience, which we've also explored longitudinally: doi.org/10.1016/j.cr... & adapted in another project to #heat doi.org/10.1177/0739...
At the city level, we use social #network analysis to examine collaboration in flood #governance networks, which we published on in more detail in the Journal of Urban Affairs but find the relationship with plans & #resilience policies appears complex & needs more research doi.org/10.1080/0735...
January 23, 2024 at 7:01 PM
At the city level, we use social #network analysis to examine collaboration in flood #governance networks, which we published on in more detail in the Journal of Urban Affairs but find the relationship with plans & #resilience policies appears complex & needs more research doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Our team has another forthcoming paper in JPER from the project that digs deeper into one of the 4 methods (plan quality) and a previously published paper specifically comparing 2 important plan types: climate change adaptation & hazard mitigation plans doi.org/10.1080/0964...
January 23, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Our team has another forthcoming paper in JPER from the project that digs deeper into one of the 4 methods (plan quality) and a previously published paper specifically comparing 2 important plan types: climate change adaptation & hazard mitigation plans doi.org/10.1080/0964...
In this paper we look at the plan-level relationship between different plan evaluation metrics, which we previously introduced in a JPER paper on 4 complementary approaches for analyzing networks of plans doi.org/10.1177/0739...
January 23, 2024 at 6:58 PM
In this paper we look at the plan-level relationship between different plan evaluation metrics, which we previously introduced in a JPER paper on 4 complementary approaches for analyzing networks of plans doi.org/10.1177/0739...
Our new paper in Annals of the AAG ties together the various pieces of our NSF-funded project on #flood #resilience #planning #networks. We explore the relationship between #governance networks, networks of plans, and resilience policies in 4 #coastal US #cities doi.org/10.1080/2469...
January 23, 2024 at 6:54 PM
Our new paper in Annals of the AAG ties together the various pieces of our NSF-funded project on #flood #resilience #planning #networks. We explore the relationship between #governance networks, networks of plans, and resilience policies in 4 #coastal US #cities doi.org/10.1080/2469...
Happy to share PhD student Shaylynn Trego's 1st lead-author publication "Heat planning in small and medium-sized cities: A collaborative application of PIRS™ for heat in Kent, WA, USA" Co-authored with @laddkeith.bsky.social & a product of our PIRS™ for Heat Project doi.org/10.1007/s425...
November 14, 2023 at 5:35 PM
Happy to share PhD student Shaylynn Trego's 1st lead-author publication "Heat planning in small and medium-sized cities: A collaborative application of PIRS™ for heat in Kent, WA, USA" Co-authored with @laddkeith.bsky.social & a product of our PIRS™ for Heat Project doi.org/10.1007/s425...
I'm looking to recruit PhD students in geography or urban planning for Fall 2024 to work on funded projects. Please share with potential students & see details below or on my lab website: sites.google.com/asu.edu/plan...
September 21, 2023 at 3:55 PM
I'm looking to recruit PhD students in geography or urban planning for Fall 2024 to work on funded projects. Please share with potential students & see details below or on my lab website: sites.google.com/asu.edu/plan...