Journals, Reports, and Articles

Publications for researchers, practitioners, and interested parties

Guidebooks and Workbooks

PAS Report 600 provides holistic guidance to help practitioners increase urban heat resilience equitably in the communities they serve. This PAS Report equips planners with the background knowledge, planning framework, and catalog of comprehensive approaches they need to advance urban heat resilience and create a more equitable and sustainable future in an increasingly urban and warming world.

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This codebook outlines the method for conducting Plan Quality Evaluation for Heat Resilience. The methodology has two parts- Plan Quality Evaluation and Heat Strategy Evaluation.

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This guidebook explains the rationale for the PIRS™ for Heat, provides a step-by-step guide for any practitioner or researcher interested in applying the methodology, includes a detailed and ready-to-go worksheet, and summarizes key plan integration findings from five communities across the U.S. 

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This workbook contains all of the spreadsheets you need to complete the Plan Integration for Resilience ScorecardTM (PIRS™) for Heat. 

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Reports

Keith, Ladd; Meerow, Sara; Roy, Malini; Trego, Shaylynn; Schmidt, Erika; Haskins, Jack; and Leyba, Bryan. (2023). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Tucson, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. Available from https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/669877 

Trego, Shaylynn; Meerow, Sara; Keith, Ladd; Schmidt, Erika; Leyba, Bryan; and Jordan, Lindsey. (2023). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Phoenix, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. Available from https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/670044 

Meerow, Sara; Keith, Ladd; Roy, Malini; Trego, Shaylynn; Schmidt, Erika; Haskins, Jack; and Leyba, Bryan. (2023). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Tempe, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. Available from: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/670109

Keith, Ladd; Meerow, Sara; Roy, Malini; Trego, Shaylynn; Jordan, Lindsey; Barret, Karli; and Gowda, Kavana Sadashiva. (2024). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Mesa, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. Available from: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/674047

Keith, Ladd; Meerow, Sara; Roy, Malini; Trego, Shaylynn; Gowda, Kavana Sadashive; Barrett, Karli; and Jordan, Lindsey. (2024). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Casa Grande, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. Available from: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/674045

Keith, Ladd; Meerow, Sara; Roy, Malini; Trego, Shaylynn; Barrett, Karli; Jordan, Lindsey; and Gowda, Kavana Sadashive. (2024). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Flagstaff, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. https://arizona.aws.openrepository.com/handle/10150/674046 

Keith, Ladd; Meerow, Sara; Roy, Malini; Trego, Shaylynn; Jordan, Lindsey; Gowda, Kavana Sadashive; and Barrett, Karli. (2024). Plan Evaluation for Heat Resilience: City of Nogales, AZ. Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL) – Arizona State University and University of Arizona. https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/674048 

Keith, Ladd; Meerow, Sara; Trego, Shaylynn; and Schmidt, Erika. (2022)City of Tempe, AZ: Plan Integration for Resilience ScorecardTM (PIRSTM) For Heat. Arizona State University and University of Arizona. Available from: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/666700

Keith, Ladd; Meerow, Sara; Trego, Shaylynn; Schmidt, Erika; Jensen, Lauren; Berke, Philip; and DeAngelis, Joseph. (2022). City of Kent, WA: Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard™ (PIRS™) For Heat. Arizona State University and University of Arizona. Available from: https://repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150/666696

Roy, Malini; Keith, Ladd. (2024). Climate Profile for Pima County for Pima Prospers Plan Update. Pima County. https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/c60add15-ef4a-4902-8cab-e5e6d549ed06 

 Publications

Meerow, S., Keith, L., Roy, M., & Trego, S. (2024). Plan evaluation for heat resilience: complementary methods to comprehensively assess heat planning in Tempe and Tucson, Arizona. Environmental Research Letters19(8), 084050. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad5d05

Meerow, S., & Keith, L. (2024). Cities at the forefront of emerging US heat governance. One Earth7(8), 1330-1334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.07.013

Roy, M., Keith, L., Arora, M., Luna, F., & Robinson, J. (2024). Coproducing Opportunities to Advance Heat Resilience in Southern Arizona. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Societyhttps://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0216.1 

Keith, L., Meerow, S., Jensen, L., Trego, S., Schmidt, E. L., & Berke, P. (2023). Evaluating urban heat mitigation across networks of plans. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 0739456X231215780https://scholar.google.com/scholar?output=instlink&q=info:bK-Y-wB-ER8J:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,3&scillfp=1272877029742299156&oi=lle 

Keith, L., Gabbe, C. J., & Schmidt, E. (2023). Urban heat governance: examining the role of urban planning. Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning25(5), 642-662. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?output=instlink&q=info:a87by2XlZvgJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,3&scillfp=2441799300333195110&oi=lle 

Trego, S., Meerow, S., & Keith, L. (2023). Heat planning in small and medium-sized cities: A collaborative application of PIRS™ for heat in Kent, WA, USA. Socio-Ecological Practice Research5(4), 409-422. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s42532-023-00166-6.pdf 

Meerow, S., & Keith, L. (2022). Planning for extreme heat: A national survey of US planners. Journal of the American Planning Association88(3), 319-334.https://scholar.google.com/scholar?output=instlink&q=info:h1zdQSFCL0AJ:scholar.google.com/&hl=en&as_sdt=0,3&scillfp=11717759458793158175&oi=lle 

Keith, L., Meerow, S., Hondula, D. M., Turner, V. K., & Arnott, J. C. (2021). Deploy heat officers, policies and metrics. Nature598(7879), 29-31. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02677-2.pdf