Academic Journal Articles
Sobhaninia, Saeideh, Sara Meerow, Aubrey Dugger, Thomas Hopson, Cenlin He, Olga Wilhelmi. 2025. “Where Should the Green Go? A Systematic Literature Review of Methods for Siting Green Infrastructure to Mitigate Rising Heat and Stormwater Risks in Cities.” Urban Forestry and Urban Greening Link
Yu, Yilei, Aaron Flores, Dylan Connor, Sara Meerow, Anna Braswell, Stefan Leyk. 2025. “Flood risk and the built environment: Big property data for environmental justice and social vulnerability analysis.” Population and Environment, 47(14). Link
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. Link
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 Link
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 Link
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. Link
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. Link
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. Link
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. Link
Hannibal, Bryce, Sara Meerow, Sierra C. Woodruff, Malini Roy, Philip Gilbertson, Melina Matos. 2022. “Who collaborates on urban resilience? An analysis of flood resilience planning networks in four coastal cities.” Journal of Urban Affairs. Link
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. Link
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. link
Newell, Joshua P., Alec Foster, Mariel Bergman, Sara Meerow. 2022. “The ecosystem services of urban agriculture: A study of Detroit.” Cities. 125: 103664. Link
Meerow, Sara & Ladd Keith. 2021. “Planning for extreme heat: A national survey of U.S. planners.” Journal of the American Planning Association.
Keith, Ladd, Sara Meerow, V. Kelly Turner, David M. Hondula, James C. Arnott. Forthcoming. “Deploy heat officers, policies and metrics” Nature. Link.
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. Link
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. Link
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. Link
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. Link
Fastiggi, Mary, Sara Meerow, Thaddeus R. Miller. 2021. “Governing urban resilience: Organizational structures and coordination strategies in 20 North American city governments.” Urban Studies. Link
Meerow, Sara, Alysha M. Helmrich, Riley Andrade, Kelli Larson. 2021. "How do heat and flood risk drive residential green infrastructure implementation in Phoenix, Arizona? Urban Ecosystems. Link
Meerow, Sara, Mukunth Natarajan, David Krantz. 2021. "A review of green infrastructure performance in arid and semi-arid environments." Urban Water Journal. Link
Smith, Jordan, Sara Meerow, Billie Lee Turner II. 2021. "Planning urban community gardens strategically through multicriteria decision analysis." Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. Link
Meerow, Sara & Fabian G. Neuner. 2021. “Positively resilient? How framing local action affects public opinion.” Urban Affairs Review. Link
Meerow, Sara. 2020. “The politics of multifunctional green infrastructure planning in New York City.” Cities. Link
Meerow, Sara & Sierra Woodruff. 2020. “Seven principles of strong climate change planning.” Journal of the American Planning Association. Link
Meerow, Sara. 2019. “A Green Infrastructure Spatial Planning model for evaluating ecosystem service tradeoffs and synergies across three coastal megacities.” Environmental Research Letters. Link
Meerow, Sara, Pani Pajouhesh, Thaddeus Miller. 2019. “Social equity in urban resilience planning.” Local Environment. Link
Meerow, Sara and Joshua Newell. 2019. “Urban resilience for whom, what, when, where, and why?" Urban Geography. Link
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. Link
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. Link
Moser, Susanne, Sara Meerow, James C. Arnott, Emily Jack-Scott. 2019. “The Turbulent world of resilience: Interpretations and themes for transdisciplinary dialogue.” Climatic Change. Link
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. Link
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. Link
Meerow, Sara and Carrie Mitchell. 2017. “Weathering the Storm: The politics of urban climate change adaptation planning” Environment and Planning A. Link
Meerow, Sara. 2017. "Double exposure, infrastructure planning, and urban climate resilience in coastal megacities: A case study of Manila" Environment and Planning A. Link
Meerow, Sara and Joshua Newell. 2017. “Spatial planning for multifunctional green infrastructure: Growing resilience in Detroit” Landscape and Urban Planning. Link
Meerow, Sara and Melissa Stults. 2016. “Comparing conceptualizations of urban climate resilience in theory and practice." Sustainability. 8(7): 701. Link
Meerow, Sara, Joshua Newell, Melissa Stults. 2016. “Defining Urban Resilience: A Review” Landscape and Urban Planning. 147: 38-49. Link
Nordgren, John, Melissa Stults, Sara Meerow. 2016. "Supporting Local Climate Change Adaptation: Where we are and where we need to go" Environmental Science & Policy. Link
Meerow, Sara and Joshua Newell. 2015. “Resilience and Complexity: A Bibliometric Review and Prospects for Industrial Ecology” Journal of Industrial Ecology. 19(2): 236-251. Link
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. Link
Other Publications
Keith, Ladd & Sara Meerow. 2022. PAS Report 600: Planning for urban heat resilience. Chicago: American Planning Association. Link
Meerow, Sara. 2018. Book Review: The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval, edited by Daniel Lerch. Journal of Planning Literature.
Stults, Melissa and Sara Meerow. 2017. "Professional Societies and Climate Change: An Analysis of how urban-focused professional societies are integrating climate change into their member engagement activities." Troy: MI: The Kresge Foundation. Link
Daigger, Glen, Jim Diana, Andrew Jones, Sara Meerow, Linda Young. 2016. "Urban Agriculture and the Food Supply" in Scaling Up Agriculture in City-Regions to Mitigate FEW System Impacts. White paper developed in support for "Few Workshop: "Scaling Up" Urban Agriculture to Mitigate Food-Energy-Water Impacts." Ann Arbor: University of Michigan. Link
Stults, Missy, John R. Nordgren, Sara Meerow, Melisa Ongun, Rachel Jacobson, and Cory Hamilton. 2015. "Assessing the Climate Adaptation Resource and Service Landscape" in Bullock, Haddow, Haddow, and Coppola (Eds.), Living with Climate Change: How Communities are Surviving and Thriving in a Changing Climate. Boca Raton: CRC Press. Link
Mans, Ulrich, Sara Meerow and Hebe Verrest. 2013. “Best practices in urban planning and management technologies: Netherlands best practice.” Technical Working Paper Series: Land and Urban Management, the University of the West Indies. Link
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. Link
Mans, Ulrich and Sara Meerow. 2012. “Role of local governments in promoting renewable energy businesses: A contribution to a green urban economy.” ICLEI Global Report, ICLEI. Link
Lindberg, Staffan and Sara Meerow. 2011. “Persistent Authoritarianism and the Future of Democracy in Africa.” Chapter in Brown, Nathan (ed.) Democratization: Doubt, Dictatorship, Diffusion, and Development. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Link