📢 Our new open-access paper is out in Urban Climate on using three plan evaluation approaches to better understand how Arizona cities are advancing heat resilience. We find that the plans have high-quality participation and coordination but lack detail on vulnerability and climate change uncertainty. We also found opportunities to better target heat mitigation policies to the highest heat risk areas, diversify heat-related policies, and improve plan integration efforts.

This study is the culmination of several years of plan evaluation work through the SW-IFL with @SaraMeerow, Malini Roy, Shaylynn Trego, Saeideh Sobhaninia, and many University of Arizona and Arizona State University students.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2026.102964

#extremeheat #climatechange #urbanplanning #heatresilience #planevaluation

Sharing my introductory presentation, "Tackling the World’s Most Dangerous Hazard," made as part of the National Academy of Sciences' 2026 Frontiers of Science symposium.

https://vimeo.com/1171349873 #extremeheat #heatresilience #heatgovernance #heatactionday

Excited to share this actionable resource for communities to advance their heat resilience: Building Heat Resilient Communities: A Toolkit for Local Heat Planning, Decision-Making, & Action: https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/publication/building-heat-resilient-communities/

Although our Center for Heat Resilient Communities was unfortunately terminated early, our team continued working hard to complete this resource and ensure its availability to communities across the nation. Appreciate everyone's work on this!
#heatresilience #extremeheat #heatactionplan

RE: https://fediscience.org/@laddkeith/116491797221285388

Humanity will likely experience new record-breaking extreme heat across the world this year due to the combination of cliamte change and the strong El Niño forming. This is our heatshed moment to act!

Our heatshed moment commentary: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07352166.2025.2526490#d1e228

More on the El Niño: https://wmo.int/media/news/wmo-likelihood-increases-of-el-nino
#climatechange #extremeheat #heatresilience

📢 This is our “heatshed” moment. Check out my new commentary with @SaraMeerow in the Journal of Urban Affairs' special issue on Extreme Heat in Cities. We argue that we are in a critical moment in history where heat mitigation, management, and governance should be an urgent priority to ensure thriving communities in the face of an overheating world.

Open access commentary online at https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2025.2526490
#extremeheat #heatresilience #heatplanning #heatgovernance #climatechange

Honored to be selected as a National Academy of Sciences Frontiers of Science (FoS) Fellow and serve as an introductory speaker for the heat and human health panel during next week's FoS Symposium!

https://news.arizona.edu/news/u-heat-policy-experts-present-annual-frontiers-science-symposium

#extremeheat #heathealth #heatresilience #NAS #FrontiersofScience