Ladd Keith

Adaptation Programs/Projects

• Southwest Center on Resilience for Climate Change & Health (SCORCH)
• Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory (SW-IFL)
• Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE)
• Climate Assessment for the Southwest (CLIMAS)
• Center for Heat Resilient Communities

Employment Highlights

• Founding Board Member - Urban Land Institute, Center of Sustainability (includes Urban Resiliency Programs) 
• Board of Directors - American Planning Association, Arizona Chapter
• Management Committee Member - Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN)

Selected Publications

• Meerow, Sara, Ladd Keith, Malini Roy, and Shaylynn Trego. (2024). Plan evaluation for heat resilience: Complementary methods to comprehensively assess heat planning in Tempe and Tucson, Arizona. Environmental Research Letters. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad5d05 
• Iuliano, Joseph E. and Ladd Keith. (2024). Shifting Gears: A case study of bicycle planning and decision-making in Tucson, Arizona. Active Travel Studies. 4(1). https://doi.org/10.16997/ats.1506
• Keith, Ladd, Sara Meerow, Lauren Jensen, Shaylynn Trego, Erika Schmidt, and Philip Berke. (2023). Evaluating urban heat mitigation across networks of plans. Journal of Planning Education and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X231215780
• Trego, Shaylynn, Sara Meerow, and Ladd Keith. (2023). Heat planning in small and medium-sized cities: A Collaborative application of PIRS™ for Heat in Kent, WA, USA. Socio-Ecological Practice Research. (5)4, 409-422. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42532-023-00166-6
• Keith, Ladd, C.J. Gabbe, and Erika Schmidt. (2023). Urban Heat Governance: Examining the Role of Urban Planning. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 25(5), 642-662. https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2023.2244446
• Chambers, Samuel N., Heidi E. Brown, Ladd Keith, and Erika Austhof. (2023). Development of a Geographic Human Heat Balance Equation to Support Public Health Analyses: An Arizona Urban Sun Corridor application. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment. 32(2023), 101009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsase.2023.101009
• Chambers, Samuel N., Geoffrey A. Boyce, Daniel E. Martinez, Coen Bongers, and Ladd Keith. (2023). The contribution of physical exertion to heat-related illness and death in the Arizona borderlands. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 46(2023), 100590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sste.2023.100590
• Sami, Ida and Ladd Keith. (2023). How do streetcar transit users and streetcar decision-makers perceive heat risk? Journal of Public Transportation. 25(2023), 100045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2023.100045