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
I'm honored to be named one of 260 Highly Cited Researchers in the Social Sciences category globally by Clarivate in 2025. This would not have been possible without an amazing, long list of co-authors, mentors, and students over the past decade: clarivate.com/highly-cited...
Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2025
The Highly Cited Researchers 2025 list identifies and celebrates individuals who have demonstrated significant and broad influence in their fields of research. Through rigorous selection criteria and ...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I'm honored to be named one of 260 Highly Cited Researchers in the Social Sciences category globally by Clarivate in 2025. This would not have been possible without an amazing, long list of co-authors, mentors, and students over the past decade: clarivate.com/highly-cited...
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Excited to join the @climateresilience.bsky.social's new Heat Resilience Exchange as a Senior Advisor, along with @vkturner.bsky.social and @sarameerow.bsky.social! onebillionresilient.org/2025/11/06/a... #heatresilience #extremeheat #heatactionplanning
The Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center appoints Jane Gilbert as Chief Heat Ambassador
The Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center announced the appointment of Jane Gilbert as its first chief heat ambassador.
onebillionresilient.org
November 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Excited to join the @climateresilience.bsky.social's new Heat Resilience Exchange as a Senior Advisor, along with @vkturner.bsky.social and @sarameerow.bsky.social! onebillionresilient.org/2025/11/06/a... #heatresilience #extremeheat #heatactionplanning
Our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU is hiring at the assistant or associate level in urban climate!
JOB AD: Assistant or Associate Professor (Urban Climate focus) (Arizona State University) urbanaffairsassociation.org/2025/10/23/a...
October 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Our School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at ASU is hiring at the assistant or associate level in urban climate!
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 essay with @anoukfransen.bsky.social on the workshop we organized last spring in Detroit.
#TNOCessay
Detroit is not empty.
A participatory (counter) mapping workshop revealed the city’s networks of care, connection, and nature, challenging old narratives of “vacancy.”
How can mapping become a tool for empowerment and belonging, not exclusion?
Join the conversation 👇
🔗 buff.ly/wBlhCKH
Detroit is not empty.
A participatory (counter) mapping workshop revealed the city’s networks of care, connection, and nature, challenging old narratives of “vacancy.”
How can mapping become a tool for empowerment and belonging, not exclusion?
Join the conversation 👇
🔗 buff.ly/wBlhCKH
October 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
New essay with @anoukfransen.bsky.social on the workshop we organized last spring in Detroit.
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We hosted the SW-IFL All Hands Meeting at the @uarizona.bsky.social with over 65 researchers, students, and stakeholders from across the state yesterday, and finally had a chance to get a group photo of our current Planning Discovery research team, led by @sarameerow.bsky.social and me!
September 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
We hosted the SW-IFL All Hands Meeting at the @uarizona.bsky.social with over 65 researchers, students, and stakeholders from across the state yesterday, and finally had a chance to get a group photo of our current Planning Discovery research team, led by @sarameerow.bsky.social and me!
Over the years I've researched how #urban #resilience is conceptualized by different academic disciplines, practitioners, & the public. I synthesized my thinking on the concept in a book chapter based on a talk at the 2022 Association for Literary Urban Studies Conference: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Urban Resilience: Disruptive Discourse or More of the Same for Cities?
Urban resilience discourse has become increasingly pervasive over the last decade, with numerous studies, policy initiatives, and plans focusing on resilient cities. Whether this urban resilience agen...
doi.org
August 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Over the years I've researched how #urban #resilience is conceptualized by different academic disciplines, practitioners, & the public. I synthesized my thinking on the concept in a book chapter based on a talk at the 2022 Association for Literary Urban Studies Conference: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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!
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I was reflecting on the heatwave that impacted much of the U.S. this week, my Op-Ed from 2021 with @sarameerow.bsky.social is just as relevant today as it was then: "The reality is that all cities, regardless of size or location, need to plan for heat resilience now." news.trust.org/item/...
Cities must plan for heat resilience now
Shocking heatwaves in the U.S. Pacific Northwest and Canada show preparation for climate-driven extreme heat needs work - fast
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June 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I was reflecting on the heatwave that impacted much of the U.S. this week, my Op-Ed from 2021 with @sarameerow.bsky.social is just as relevant today as it was then: "The reality is that all cities, regardless of size or location, need to plan for heat resilience now." news.trust.org/item/...
An amazing way to kick off my month at NCAR in Boulder this summer!
Spent the last two days at NCAR in beautiful Boulder, CO for a NSF extreme heat workshop with fellow heat scholars and inspiring early career academics. Here's @sarameerow.bsky.social presenting our heat governance work! #extremeheat #heatgovernance #heatresilience
June 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
An amazing way to kick off my month at NCAR in Boulder this summer!
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...
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NEW JUA #ARTICLE: Heat mitigation and management in the City of Phoenix, Arizona: A case study of America’s hottest large city www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @bhanlonurban.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
NEW JUA #ARTICLE: Heat mitigation and management in the City of Phoenix, Arizona: A case study of America’s hottest large city www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @bhanlonurban.bsky.social
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Cities are adapting to increasingly long, frequent, and intense heat waves and their unequally distributed effects. PSC alum @sarameerow.bsky.social et al report on Phoenix, AZ, a city that epitomizes these challenges and innovations needed to address them. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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June 16, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Cities are adapting to increasingly long, frequent, and intense heat waves and their unequally distributed effects. PSC alum @sarameerow.bsky.social et al report on Phoenix, AZ, a city that epitomizes these challenges and innovations needed to address them. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The second, led by @shaylynntrego.bsky.social, is a case study of heat governance in Phoenix, Arizona, and discusses the nation's first publicly funded office of heat mitigation and response and related efforts to address extreme heat. doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Heat mitigation and management in the City of Phoenix, Arizona: A case study of America’s hottest large city
The increasing frequency, intensity, and duration of heat waves due to climate change have escalated the occurrence of extreme heat risks, raising significant concerns in many cities. The unequal d...
doi.org
June 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The second, led by @shaylynntrego.bsky.social, is a case study of heat governance in Phoenix, Arizona, and discusses the nation's first publicly funded office of heat mitigation and response and related efforts to address extreme heat. doi.org/10.1080/0735...
Reposted by Sara Meerow
The first, led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social, compares plan integration for extreme heat and flooding in Baltimore, Maryland, and explores policy co-benefits, trade-offs, and the possibility for maladaptation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A comparison of plan integration for flood and heat resilience: A case study of Baltimore, Maryland
Due to the deadly and costly impacts of flooding, extreme heat, and limited resources for resilience-building efforts, cities need win-win strategies …
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June 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The first, led by @saidasobhani.bsky.social, compares plan integration for extreme heat and flooding in Baltimore, Maryland, and explores policy co-benefits, trade-offs, and the possibility for maladaptation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Two new heat resilience papers from our research team this week! @sarameerow.bsky.social #heatresilience #extremeheat
June 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Two new heat resilience papers from our research team this week! @sarameerow.bsky.social #heatresilience #extremeheat
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
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AZ's official Heat Awareness week has five themes and today is Take Action. @laddkeith.com and @sarameerow.bsky.social wrote Planning for Urban Heat Resilience, a report providing holistic guidance to help increase urban heat resilience equitably in communities across the U.S. tinyurl.com/plan-heat
Planning for Urban Heat Resilience
Planners seeking to increase their communities’ urban heat resilience can equitably prepare for and adapt to both chronic and acute heat risk through heat mitigation and management strategies.
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May 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
AZ's official Heat Awareness week has five themes and today is Take Action. @laddkeith.com and @sarameerow.bsky.social wrote Planning for Urban Heat Resilience, a report providing holistic guidance to help increase urban heat resilience equitably in communities across the U.S. tinyurl.com/plan-heat
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What does FEMA’s retreat from hazard mitigation programs mean for states and communities? @wcurrangroome.bsky.social, @sara-mctarnaghan.bsky.social and I break down the impacts of the administration’s decisions, by state and congressional district: www.urban.org/urban-wire/f...
FEMA Is Eliminating Hazard Mitigation Programs, Leaving Americans Nationwide at Risk as Disasters Worsen
Cancelling the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program and funding for future Flood Mitigation Assistance grants would end most federal funding for predisaster hazard mitigation, eve...
www.urban.org
April 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What does FEMA’s retreat from hazard mitigation programs mean for states and communities? @wcurrangroome.bsky.social, @sara-mctarnaghan.bsky.social and I break down the impacts of the administration’s decisions, by state and congressional district: www.urban.org/urban-wire/f...
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...