Ladd KeithApr 30

📢 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

Ladd KeithDec 3, 2024
📢 Please reshare! Our NIHHIS Center for Heat Resilient Communities is now accepting applications for our first cohort to receive support to develop heat resilience roadmaps. https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/communities-can-now-apply-for-financial-technical-help-planning-for-extreme-heat #extremeheat #heatresilience #heatplanning
Communities can now apply for financial, technical help planning for extreme heat

Today, the Center for Heat Resilient Communities (CHRC) launched the application period for communities across the U.S. to get support to develop Heat Resilience Roadmaps as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda. Funded through the Inflation Reduction Act, up to 10 selected communities will receive $10,000 and technica

Ladd KeithDec 3, 2024
Resharing my co-authored One Earth commentary with @SaraMeerow on how cities are at the forefront of emerging heat governance. Emerging heat governance systems should integrate disciplines and sectors to holistically and equitably mitigate and manage heat through goals, data, action, evaluation, and public participation across different governance instruments and jurisdictional scales.
https://www.cell.com/one-earth/abstract/S2590-3322(24)00367-1 #extremeheat #heatgovernance #heatresilience #heatplanning
Ladd KeithAug 16, 2024
New One Earth commentary on how cities are at the forefront of emerging heat governance by @SaraMeerow and me! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.07.013 #heatgovernance #heatresilience #heatpolicy #heatplanning
Cities at the forefront of emerging US heat governance

Cities worldwide face growing heat risks but still mostly lack comprehensive and coordinated efforts to address heat hazards. Emerging urban heat gove…

Show threadLadd KeithJul 30, 2024
These are generalizable approaches that researchers and practitioners everywhere can use to identify opportunities for improved heat resilience planning. #heatplanning #heatgovernance
Show threadLadd KeithJun 5, 2024
The newly adopted Heat Action Roadmap outlines 61 specific actions to inform, prepare, and protect people; cool people's homes and community centers; and cool Tucson neighborhoods. https://tucsonaz.hylandcloud.com/221agendaonline/Documents/ViewDocument/ATTACHMENT%20A%20-%20CITY%20OF%20TUCSON%20HEAT%20ACTION%20ROADMAP.pdf?meetingId=1787&documentType=Agenda&itemId=72312&publishId=150052&isSection=false #heatplanning
Show threadLadd KeithApr 25, 2024
So far, we have completed plan analysis for Phoenix, Tempe, and Tucson, and are now working on finishing our work for Casa Grande, Flagstaff, Mesa, and Nogales. #heatplanning https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b01d63aee41c48b0804b77569f78cf21
Plan Integration for Resilience Scorecard (PIRS) for Heat

Spatially evaluating networks of plans to mitigate heat

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Ladd KeithDec 12, 2023
📢 Happy to share my new JPER paper, Evaluating Urban Heat Mitigation Across Networks of Plans, with coauthors @SaraMeerow, Lauren Jensen, Shaylynn Trego, Erika Schmidt, and Philip Berke! https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X231215780 #heatresilience #heatplanning #planintegration
Ladd KeithAug 9, 2023

New Q&A feature by Luke Antoniou of SmartCitiesWorld on this summer's record-breaking heat and the latest advances in addressing extreme heat: “It’s all about taking action now to protect our communities, mitigate heat-related risks, and enhance our urban environments for a more sustainable and resilient future.”

https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/climate-action/tackling-extreme-heat-isnt-a-summertime-job--its-a-year-round-effort-9244

#extremeheat #urbanheat #heatplanning #heatgovernance #heatresilience

Tackling extreme heat isn’t a summertime job – it’s a year-round effort

Ladd Keith, PhD, assistant professor of the University of Arizona, explains why tackling extreme heat requires a year-round effort to protect communities.

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Show threadLadd KeithMar 17, 2023

Although our pre and post survey didn't find many statistically significant outcomes, players expressed that they enjoyed the game and that it helped them better understand heat planning strategies and the environmental, social, and economic tradeoffs associated with them.

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#extremeheat #urbanheat #heatplanning #heatresilience #gaming

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