Sara Hughes
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3708505 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sara Hughes |
| NOMBRES | Sara |
| APELLIDO | Hughes |
| FIRMA | HUGHES S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1282-6235 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 210 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Putting Action in Climate Action Plans
Many U.S. cities are adopting ambitious climate adaptation and mitigation policies to transition toward greater resilience. Centering the needs of historically marginalized communities is a necessary component of this transition, but implementation of such efforts has often stalled. This study develops and applies an evaluation framework that integrates document analysis, a quantitative scoring system, and interviews with seven city officials to …
A two-arm parallel group randomized feasibility trial of a mobile application-delivered mindfulness exercise in distressed adults
Mobile apps show promise for teaching mindfulness skills, but poor engagement limits their therapeutic impact. Most apps rely on audio-guided meditations, highlighting the need to explore novel delivery methods. This study evaluated the feasibility of delivering the dropping anchor mindfulness exercise as an annotated image sequence via the ACTaide prototype app. This 4-week, parallel two-arm randomized feasibility trial was conducted virtually f…
When cities choose green
Stormwater flooding is a growing challenge for cities and communities globally, exacerbated by expanding impervious surface under urbanization and more frequent extreme rainfall under climate change. Green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) has the potential to reduce flood risk while providing valuable co-benefits, but is not always well-aligned with or supported by existing policy and planning requirements. This study evaluates the adoption of mun…
Sea-Level Rise and Growth Machines in Coastal Cities
Climate change, and sea level rise (SLR) in particular, poses new challenges for urban politics. In this paper, we use exploratory case studies of various communities along the Eastern seaboard of the United States, focusing primarily on Boston and secondarily on New York City and Norfolk, to develop hypotheses regarding the behavior of local growth machines (GMs) in response to the threat posed by SLR on local property values. Part of this analy…
The multiple drivers of thermal disparities in US manufactured housing
Extreme heat kills more Americans than any other weather hazard. Residents of manufactured housing – in both urban and rural settings – are more likely than those in other housing types to need medical attention due to heat exposure at home. This study thus examines the drivers of residential thermal disparities for manufactured housing residents across the US. We use data from the 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey and 2021 American Hous…
How Did Utility Shutoff Procedures and Household Shutoff Outcomes Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic? Assessing Sociodemographic and Geographic Variation Across the United States
Utility shutoffs due to an inability to pay can have severe consequences for the health and well-being of those who experience them, especially during a public health crisis. Starting in March 2020, many states and utilities across the United States instituted utility shutoff moratoria for the first time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This new policy approach was often based on the expressly stated logic that these services were essential …
Broadening resilience
The policy failures of rental housing
The lack of access to in-home running water from inadequate plumbing is a critical water insecurity challenge in the U.S. Using the concept of plumbing poverty, this paper investigates why housing policies in Detroit, Michigan, have failed to ensure adequate plumbing and water security for renters using interviews with city employees, community groups, renters, and property managers. We find that unresponsive landlords enabled by historical housi…
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality
Policy responses to the challenges associated with environmental change, including more frequent and severe climatic events, have interlinked environmental and social impacts. Less attention has been afforded to the latter, and specifically to the question of not just whether but how such responses create or entrench inequality. This paper examines policy responses to drought events in California, United States, and the Western Cape Province, Sou…
Centering Racial Justice in Urban Flood Resilience Policy and Planning
Racial and spatial segregation in cities generate uneven exposure to current and future urban flood risks and worsen the economic and health consequences of flooding for Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities. In this article, we present a tool for practitioners to center racial justice in urban flood resilience policy and planning. This tool includes and operationalizes five principles for centering racial justice to produce …
Flint, Michigan, and the Politics of Safe Drinking Water in the United States
Flint’s drinking water crisis has brought renewed⸺and needed⸺attention to the importance of safe drinking water in the United States. The Flint water crisis was the result of a confluence of factors operating at multiple scales in time and space. My aim is to draw out more explicitly the role of policy, and specifically rationalized policy, in incentivizing and allowing the mistakes and decisions that most proximately led to the Flint water crisi…
Just urban transitions
While there are excellent policy and academic foundations for thinking about and making sense of urban climate action and questions of justice and climate change independently, there is less work that considers their intersection. The nature and dynamics of, and requirements for, a just urban transition (JUT)—the fusion of climate action and justice concerns at the urban scale—are not well understood. In this review article we seek to rectify thi…
Principles, drivers, and policy tools for just climate change adaptation in legacy cities
The Role of Pilot Projects in Urban Climate Change Policy Innovation
Cities are taking a leadership role in addressing global climate change and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but policy innovations are needed to help cities move from goals to outcomes. Pilot projects are one means by which cities are experimenting with new ways of governing and financing climate change mitigation. In this paper, we develop a framework for understanding the role of pilot projects in urban policy innovation: their emergen…
Short-Term Mating
Trauma, Power, and Intimate Relationships Among Women in Prison
The present study, which included four focus groups of women ( n = 21) in four New England prisons, aimed to understand how power impacted women's relationships, exposure to violence, and health. Women described power in three ways: (a) power as control over their sexuality and their sexual partners, (b) power emerging from emotional strength, and (c) power referring to a process of empowerment. Women's perceptions and experiences of power were i…
Issue Proximity and Policy Response in Local Governments
The policy choices of local governments are highly relevant today, but we know relatively little about how or when local governments choose to respond to a given issue and why this might vary between policy areas. A key variant for local governments is the proximity of policy issues: they are engaged in solving local, regional, and global problems. Using evidence from the United States on the policy issues of social inclusion, watershed managemen…
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
Governing garbage
The Politics of Urban Climate Change Policy
Urban politics research has not kept pace—empirically or theoretically—with city governments’ engagement with climate change policy. Thousands of cities globally have made commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and are taking steps toward these goals. In the United States, research has examined the motivations for such actions and has described some of the implementation challenges cities are encountering, but we lack a theoreticall…
With a Wink and a Nod
Construction as commemoration refers to the construction of new settlement outposts and the expansion of existing settlements to commemorate the loss of Israeli life in the occupied West Bank. Popular discourse surrounding this commemorative construction maintains that these acts are aimed at “sending a message” to Palestinian terrorists, asserting that Israeli settlers will stand fast in the face of violence. Settlements, however, grow regardles…
Scale, urban risk and adaptation capacity in neighborhoods of Latin American cities
Science and institution building in urban climate-change policymaking
As cities develop climate-change policies, they are likely to engage with and produce new science and information. What influences the choices cities make about this engagement? Our aim is to understand the differences in the ways city governments structure their relationship to climate-change science and expertise, and the extent to which these choices reflect broader governance orientations towards climate change as a policy area. The climate-c…
Triple exposure
Authority Structures and Service Reform in Multilevel Urban Governance
Research on urban service delivery strategies lacks a multilevel approach able to account for the influence of authority structures on effective reform. A comparative analysis of efforts to increase recycled wastewater production in the United States (specifically California) and Australia is used to evaluate the effectiveness of centralized and decentralized urban governance systems in reform efforts and, more importantly, the institutional and …
The Politics of Urban Climate Change Policy
Urban politics research has not kept pace—empirically or theoretically—with city governments’ engagement with climate change policy. Thousands of cities globally have made commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and are taking steps toward these goals. In the United States, research has examined the motivations for such actions and has described some of the implementation challenges cities are encountering, but we lack a theoreticall…
Just urban transitions
While there are excellent policy and academic foundations for thinking about and making sense of urban climate action and questions of justice and climate change independently, there is less work that considers their intersection. The nature and dynamics of, and requirements for, a just urban transition (JUT)—the fusion of climate action and justice concerns at the urban scale—are not well understood. In this review article we seek to rectify thi…
The Role of Pilot Projects in Urban Climate Change Policy Innovation
Cities are taking a leadership role in addressing global climate change and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but policy innovations are needed to help cities move from goals to outcomes. Pilot projects are one means by which cities are experimenting with new ways of governing and financing climate change mitigation. In this paper, we develop a framework for understanding the role of pilot projects in urban policy innovation: their emergen…
Measuring paternal discrepancy and its public health consequences
Paternal discrepancy (PD) occurs when a child is identified as being biologically fathered by someone other than the man who believes he is the father. This paper examines published evidence on levels of PD and its public health consequences. Rates vary between studies from 0.8% to 30% (median 3.7%, n = 17). Using information from genetic and behavioural studies, the article identifies those who conceive younger, live in deprivation, are in long …
Principles, drivers, and policy tools for just climate change adaptation in legacy cities
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
Scale, urban risk and adaptation capacity in neighborhoods of Latin American cities
Triple exposure
Issue Proximity and Policy Response in Local Governments
The policy choices of local governments are highly relevant today, but we know relatively little about how or when local governments choose to respond to a given issue and why this might vary between policy areas. A key variant for local governments is the proximity of policy issues: they are engaged in solving local, regional, and global problems. Using evidence from the United States on the policy issues of social inclusion, watershed managemen…
A framework to assess national level vulnerability from the perspective of food security
Voluntary Environmental Programs in the Public Sector
Solving conflictual environmental policy problems is increasingly falling under the purview of local governments and public agencies. Nonregulatory approaches, such as the development of voluntary environmental programs (VEPs), could offer a useful policy alternative as they often have greater political traction and flexibility. However, there has been little work examining the use of VEPs in the public sector. This article uses a new dataset fro…
Flint, Michigan, and the Politics of Safe Drinking Water in the United States
Flint’s drinking water crisis has brought renewed⸺and needed⸺attention to the importance of safe drinking water in the United States. The Flint water crisis was the result of a confluence of factors operating at multiple scales in time and space. My aim is to draw out more explicitly the role of policy, and specifically rationalized policy, in incentivizing and allowing the mistakes and decisions that most proximately led to the Flint water crisi…
Authority Structures and Service Reform in Multilevel Urban Governance
Research on urban service delivery strategies lacks a multilevel approach able to account for the influence of authority structures on effective reform. A comparative analysis of efforts to increase recycled wastewater production in the United States (specifically California) and Australia is used to evaluate the effectiveness of centralized and decentralized urban governance systems in reform efforts and, more importantly, the institutional and …
Justice in Urban Climate Change Adaptation
Cities around the world are increasingly developing plans to adapt to the consequences of climate change. These plans will have important consequences for urban populations because they are likely to reshape and reconfigure urban infrastructures, services, and decision making processes. It is critical that these adaptation plans are developed in a way that is just. Criteria was developed that can be used to assess justice in adaptation so that th…
With a Wink and a Nod
Construction as commemoration refers to the construction of new settlement outposts and the expansion of existing settlements to commemorate the loss of Israeli life in the occupied West Bank. Popular discourse surrounding this commemorative construction maintains that these acts are aimed at “sending a message” to Palestinian terrorists, asserting that Israeli settlers will stand fast in the face of violence. Settlements, however, grow regardles…
Broadening resilience
Science and institution building in urban climate-change policymaking
As cities develop climate-change policies, they are likely to engage with and produce new science and information. What influences the choices cities make about this engagement? Our aim is to understand the differences in the ways city governments structure their relationship to climate-change science and expertise, and the extent to which these choices reflect broader governance orientations towards climate change as a policy area. The climate-c…
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality
Policy responses to the challenges associated with environmental change, including more frequent and severe climatic events, have interlinked environmental and social impacts. Less attention has been afforded to the latter, and specifically to the question of not just whether but how such responses create or entrench inequality. This paper examines policy responses to drought events in California, United States, and the Western Cape Province, Sou…
Trauma, Power, and Intimate Relationships Among Women in Prison
The present study, which included four focus groups of women ( n = 21) in four New England prisons, aimed to understand how power impacted women's relationships, exposure to violence, and health. Women described power in three ways: (a) power as control over their sexuality and their sexual partners, (b) power emerging from emotional strength, and (c) power referring to a process of empowerment. Women's perceptions and experiences of power were i…
Governing garbage
Perceived causes of sporadic cryptosporidiosis and their relation to sources of information
Background: The importance of a person’s perceptions about the causes of their disease has been emphasised by research on various diseases. Several studies have found perception may be linked to protective behaviours. Objective: This study intends to identify the main perceived causes of sporadic cryptosporidiosis, and to analyse some of the factors that may influence respondent’s perception. The role of respondents’ attributions, the scientific …
Measuring paternal discrepancy and its public health consequences
Paternal discrepancy (PD) occurs when a child is identified as being biologically fathered by someone other than the man who believes he is the father. This paper examines published evidence on levels of PD and its public health consequences. Rates vary between studies from 0.8% to 30% (median 3.7%, n = 17). Using information from genetic and behavioural studies, the article identifies those who conceive younger, live in deprivation, are in long …
Perceived causes of sporadic cryptosporidiosis and their relation to sources of information
Background: The importance of a person’s perceptions about the causes of their disease has been emphasised by research on various diseases. Several studies have found perception may be linked to protective behaviours. Objective: This study intends to identify the main perceived causes of sporadic cryptosporidiosis, and to analyse some of the factors that may influence respondent’s perception. The role of respondents’ attributions, the scientific …
Teenage drinking, alcohol availability and pricing
There is no safe level of alcohol consumption for 15-16 year olds. However, while abstinence removes risk of harms from personal alcohol consumption, its promotion may also push children into accessing drink outside family environments and contribute to higher risks of harm. Strategies to reduce alcohol-related harms in children should ensure bingeing is avoided entirely, address the excessively low cost of many alcohol products, and tackle the e…
Active – Animation for Children to Teach and Influence Values and Views on healthy Eating and physical activity
now that several points might be bettered: again Service setting (60?96 %), booking service (26?03 %), waiting time (15?07 %), even some technical-professional aspects (22?61 %)
A framework to assess national level vulnerability from the perspective of food security
Voluntary Environmental Programs in the Public Sector
Solving conflictual environmental policy problems is increasingly falling under the purview of local governments and public agencies. Nonregulatory approaches, such as the development of voluntary environmental programs (VEPs), could offer a useful policy alternative as they often have greater political traction and flexibility. However, there has been little work examining the use of VEPs in the public sector. This article uses a new dataset fro…
Triple exposure
Authority Structures and Service Reform in Multilevel Urban Governance
Research on urban service delivery strategies lacks a multilevel approach able to account for the influence of authority structures on effective reform. A comparative analysis of efforts to increase recycled wastewater production in the United States (specifically California) and Australia is used to evaluate the effectiveness of centralized and decentralized urban governance systems in reform efforts and, more importantly, the institutional and …
Justice in Urban Climate Change Adaptation
Cities around the world are increasingly developing plans to adapt to the consequences of climate change. These plans will have important consequences for urban populations because they are likely to reshape and reconfigure urban infrastructures, services, and decision making processes. It is critical that these adaptation plans are developed in a way that is just. Criteria was developed that can be used to assess justice in adaptation so that th…
Scale, urban risk and adaptation capacity in neighborhoods of Latin American cities
Science and institution building in urban climate-change policymaking
As cities develop climate-change policies, they are likely to engage with and produce new science and information. What influences the choices cities make about this engagement? Our aim is to understand the differences in the ways city governments structure their relationship to climate-change science and expertise, and the extent to which these choices reflect broader governance orientations towards climate change as a policy area. The climate-c…
Political feasibility of 1.5°C societal transformations
Constraining global climate change to 1.5°C is commonly understood to require urgent and deep societal transformations. Yet such transformations are not always viewed as politically feasible; finding ways to enhance the political feasibility of ambitious decarbonization trajectories is needed. This paper reviews the role of social justice as an organizing principle for politically feasible 1.5°C transformations. A social justice lens usefully foc…
Governing garbage
The Politics of Urban Climate Change Policy
Urban politics research has not kept pace—empirically or theoretically—with city governments’ engagement with climate change policy. Thousands of cities globally have made commitments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and are taking steps toward these goals. In the United States, research has examined the motivations for such actions and has described some of the implementation challenges cities are encountering, but we lack a theoreticall…
With a Wink and a Nod
Construction as commemoration refers to the construction of new settlement outposts and the expansion of existing settlements to commemorate the loss of Israeli life in the occupied West Bank. Popular discourse surrounding this commemorative construction maintains that these acts are aimed at “sending a message” to Palestinian terrorists, asserting that Israeli settlers will stand fast in the face of violence. Settlements, however, grow regardles…
Issue Proximity and Policy Response in Local Governments
The policy choices of local governments are highly relevant today, but we know relatively little about how or when local governments choose to respond to a given issue and why this might vary between policy areas. A key variant for local governments is the proximity of policy issues: they are engaged in solving local, regional, and global problems. Using evidence from the United States on the policy issues of social inclusion, watershed managemen…
Short-Term Mating
Trauma, Power, and Intimate Relationships Among Women in Prison
The present study, which included four focus groups of women ( n = 21) in four New England prisons, aimed to understand how power impacted women's relationships, exposure to violence, and health. Women described power in three ways: (a) power as control over their sexuality and their sexual partners, (b) power emerging from emotional strength, and (c) power referring to a process of empowerment. Women's perceptions and experiences of power were i…
Just urban transitions
While there are excellent policy and academic foundations for thinking about and making sense of urban climate action and questions of justice and climate change independently, there is less work that considers their intersection. The nature and dynamics of, and requirements for, a just urban transition (JUT)—the fusion of climate action and justice concerns at the urban scale—are not well understood. In this review article we seek to rectify thi…
Principles, drivers, and policy tools for just climate change adaptation in legacy cities
The Role of Pilot Projects in Urban Climate Change Policy Innovation
Cities are taking a leadership role in addressing global climate change and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but policy innovations are needed to help cities move from goals to outcomes. Pilot projects are one means by which cities are experimenting with new ways of governing and financing climate change mitigation. In this paper, we develop a framework for understanding the role of pilot projects in urban policy innovation: their emergen…
Centering Racial Justice in Urban Flood Resilience Policy and Planning
Racial and spatial segregation in cities generate uneven exposure to current and future urban flood risks and worsen the economic and health consequences of flooding for Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities. In this article, we present a tool for practitioners to center racial justice in urban flood resilience policy and planning. This tool includes and operationalizes five principles for centering racial justice to produce …
Flint, Michigan, and the Politics of Safe Drinking Water in the United States
Flint’s drinking water crisis has brought renewed⸺and needed⸺attention to the importance of safe drinking water in the United States. The Flint water crisis was the result of a confluence of factors operating at multiple scales in time and space. My aim is to draw out more explicitly the role of policy, and specifically rationalized policy, in incentivizing and allowing the mistakes and decisions that most proximately led to the Flint water crisi…
Whose water crisis? How policy responses to acute environmental change widen inequality
Policy responses to the challenges associated with environmental change, including more frequent and severe climatic events, have interlinked environmental and social impacts. Less attention has been afforded to the latter, and specifically to the question of not just whether but how such responses create or entrench inequality. This paper examines policy responses to drought events in California, United States, and the Western Cape Province, Sou…
How Did Utility Shutoff Procedures and Household Shutoff Outcomes Change During the Covid-19 Pandemic? Assessing Sociodemographic and Geographic Variation Across the United States
Utility shutoffs due to an inability to pay can have severe consequences for the health and well-being of those who experience them, especially during a public health crisis. Starting in March 2020, many states and utilities across the United States instituted utility shutoff moratoria for the first time in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This new policy approach was often based on the expressly stated logic that these services were essential …
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