Academic Journal Articles

• Roy, Malini, Ladd Keith, Sara Meerow, Shaylynn Trego, Saeideh Sobhaninia. Forthcoming. “Assessing heat resilience coordination in networks of plans.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. Link

• Keith, Ladd, Sara Meerow, Malini Roy, Shaylynn Trego, Saeideh Sobhaninia. 2026. “Integrating three plan evaluation approaches for coordinated heat resilience across Arizona.” Urban Climate. Link

• Wilhelmi, Olga, Mary H Hayden, Peter D Howe, Jennifer Vanos, Sara Meerow, Dana Habeeb, V. Kelly Turner, Cenlin He, Ulrike Passe, Tian Yao, Jose Rodrigo Leal, Rajesh Kumar, Ben Crawford, Kevin Lanza, Alamin Molla, Andrew J Newman, Amanda L Laverty, Jean Claude Iradukunda, Carly Frank and Tammie Visintainer. 2026. “Human and geographic dimensions of heat risk: progress, challenges, and opportunities.” Environmental Research Letters. Link

• Stillwell, Ashlynn, Jay L Banner, Darrel M Tremaine, R. Patrick Bixler, Kasey Faust, Auroop R Ganguly, Steven Gray, Rebecca Jordan, Sara Meerow, John Nielsen-Gammon, Dev Niyogi, Laura Schmitt Olabisi, Bev Wilson, Moira Zellner, Kent Portney, Daniel DeCaro, Suzanne Pierce and Michael Young. 2026. “Envisioning sustainable urban areas through integrative physical systems and governance frameworks.” Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability. Link

• Meerow, Sara. 2026. “Spatial planning and the governance of urban greening.” Nature Cities. Link

• Keith, Ladd & Sara Meerow. 2026. Our “Heatshed” moment is now. Journal of Urban Affairs. Link

• Trego, Shaylynn, Sara Meerow, Ladd Keith, David Hondula. 2025. “Heat mitigation and management in the city of Phoenix, AZ: A case study of America’s hottest large city.” Journal of Urban Affairs. Link

• Mell, Ian, Sara Meerow, Sarah Clement, Marissa Matsler, and Mitch Pavao-Zuckerman. 2025. "Editorial: Green Infrastructure: Evolution and Current State." Urban Forestry & Urban Greening: 128751. Link

• Schulze, Paul, & Sara Meerow. 2025. “Navigating cross-scalar challenges in adapting to climate change: Insights from water planning in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area.” Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies. Link

•  Archie, Kelli, Daniella Hirschfeld, Sara Meerow, James Arnott, Ladd Keith, Julie Vano, Emilio Mateo. 2025. “Too hot to handle: Assessing practitioner climate service needs to advance heat resilience.” Climate Services Link

• Leyba, Bryan, Sara Meerow*, Alexandra Busch, Doris Damjanovic, Ladd Keith. 2025. “Planning for Heat Resilience in Increasingly Vulnerable Cities: A Case Study of Vienna, Austria.” Sustainable Cities and Society Link

• Sobhaninia, Saeideh, Sara Meerow, Ladd Keith, Malini Roy, Shaylynn Trego, Melina Matos. 2025. “A comparison of plan integration for flood and heat resilience: A case study of Baltimore, MD.” International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Link

• Jensen, Lauren, Ladd Keith, Sara Meerow, Philip Berke, Erika Schmidt, Shaylynn Trego. 2025. “Planning to mitigate heat in vulnerable neighborhoods: Applying the Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ for Heat in Dorchester and East Boston.” Journal of Urban Affairs  Link

• 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, Anne-Lise Boyer, Minwoo Ahn. 2026. “Planning for Rural Heat Resilience” PAS Memo. American Planning Association. Link

• Meerow, Sara. 2025. “Urban Resilience: Disruptive discourse or more of the same for cities” in Prieto, Lanigan, Lappela (Eds.), Urban Discourses of Crisis, Resilience, and Resistance Cities Under Stress, Literary Urban Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham., pp. 35-54, Link

• Meerow, Sara. 2026. “Urban resilience” in LeGates et al. (Eds.), The City Reader, 8th Edition, Routledge.

• 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