Thomas R Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 103515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas R Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas R |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER T R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1692-5839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 363 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services
Pilot project purgatory? Assessing automated vehicle pilot projects in U.S. cities
Pilot projects have emerged in cities globally as a way to experiment with the utilization of a suite of smart mobility and emerging transportation technologies. Automated vehicles (AVs) have become central tools for such projects as city governments and industry explore the use and impact of this emerging technology. This paper presents a large-scale assessment of AV pilot projects in U.S. cities to understand how pilot projects are being used t…
The Eco-Techno Spectrum
Infrastructure crises are not only technical problems for engineers to solve—they also present social, ecological, financial, and political challenges. Addressing infrastructure problems thus requires a robust planning process that includes examination of the social and ecological systems supporting infrastructure, alongside technical systems. An integrative Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETS) analysis of infrastructure solutions…
Beyond bouncing back? Comparing and contesting urban resilience frames in US and Latin American contexts
Urban resilience has gained considerable popularity in planning and policy to address cities’ capacity to cope with climate change. While many studies discuss the different ways that academics define resilience, little attention has been given to how resilience is conceptualized across different urban contexts and among the actors that engage in building resilience ‘on the ground’. Given the implications that resilience frames can have for the so…
Planning and Policy Directions for Autonomous Vehicles in Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) in the United States
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are rapidly emerging in United States cities, leaving urban and regional planning institutions unsure how to plan and develop policies. This paper analyzes how regional transportation plans (RTPs) developed by metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are approaching the risks and opportunities presented by AVs. Among 52 MPOs, a majority only mention key issues and emphasize high levels of uncertainty. Twelve MPOs devel…
Governing urban resilience
This paper describes how urban resilience governance is structured and coordinated in 20 North American cities (19 US and one Canadian) based on interviews with city officials. This co-produced research evolved out of conversations with city officials in Portland, Oregon, who were interested to learn how other cities were organising resilience work. Interviews focused on emerging definitions, organisational structures, internal and external coord…
Infrastructure governance for the Anthropocene
Transitioning infrastructure governance for accelerating, increasingly uncertain, and increasingly complex environments is paramount for ensuring that critical and basic services are met during times of stability and instability. Yet the bureaucratic structures that dominate infrastructure organizations and their capacity to respond to increasing complexity remain poorly understood. To change infrastructure governance, it is critical to understan…
Urban Techno-Politics
Urban regions, which are today home to more than half of the world’s population, have long served as vibrant centers of social, political and economic life (Mumford, 1961; Hall, 1998; Glaeser, 2011
Social equity in urban resilience planning
A growing number of cities are incorporating resilience into their plans and policies to respond to shocks, stresses, and uncertainties. While some scholars advocate for the potential of resilience research and practice, others argue that it promotes an inherently conservative and neoliberal agenda, prevents systemic transformations, and pays insufficient attention to power, politics, and justice. Notably, critics of the urban resilience agenda a…
Imaginaries of Sustainability
Sustainability, particularly as articulated in cities, acts as an imaginary that shapes science, technology and social order to attain desirable futures. Imaginaries of sustainability represent visions of social and natural well-being now and into the future. Like sociotechnical imaginaries, imaginaries of sustainability are both descriptive of potential futures and prescriptive about the futures that ought to be pursued. Proponents of smart citi…
Regional sociotechnical imaginaries and the governance of energy innovations
Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (Setss) to Address Lock‐in and Enhance Resilience
Traditional infrastructure adaptation to extreme weather events (and now climate change) has typically been techno‐centric and heavily grounded in robustness—the capacity to prevent or minimize disruptions via a risk‐based approach that emphasizes control, armoring, and strengthening (e.g., raising the height of levees). However, climate and nonclimate challenges facing infrastructure are not purely technological. Ecological and social systems al…
STIRring the grid
Since the first electrification systems were established in the United States between 1910 and 1930, energy systems governance at the municipal level has included competing visions for how engineering design and energy policy-making should foster particular social outcomes. Using Phoenix as a representative metropolitan area, and the cases of distributed generation and in-home power management devices as examples, this paper explores how the norm…
The Community Watershed Stewardship Program
Contesting Sustainability
Despite decade old calls for a “just sustainability,” urban sustainability policy and practice remains oriented toward environmental outcomes and eco-lifestyle projects. Notions of equity, justice, and inclusion continue to be marginalized in favor of technological solutions, such as green buildings, that are visible, easy to implement, and help to promote economic development. By examining a controversy over a bikeway development project in a ra…
The future of sustainability science
De-Facto Science Policy in the Making
Constructing sustainability science
Patient-Centered Medical Homes
Many are calling for the expansion of the patient-centered medical home model into rural and underserved populations as a transformative strategy to address issues of access, efficiency, quality, and sustainability in the delivery of health care. Patient-centered medical homes have been touted as a promising cost-saving model for comprehensive management of persons with chronic diseases and disabilities, but it is unclear how rural practitioners …
Epistemological Pluralism
Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin, III, and C. L. Redman. 2008. Epistemological pluralism: reorganizing interdisciplinary research. Ecology and Society 13(2): 46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02671-130246
Effects of Specialty Hospitals on the Financial Performance of General Hospitals, 1997–2004
Hospital specialization has become a controversial topic, culminating in a moratorium issued in 2003 by Congress directing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to cease payments to new physician-owned specialty hospitals for those Medicare and Medicaid patients referred by physicians with a financial interest in the facility. This paper focuses on one important economic question: does the presence of specialty hospitals in a market affe…
Self-Rated Health
The decline in SRH levels among 49- to 65-year-old African Americans is comparable to that of Whites
An Interpersonal Continuity of Care Measure for Medicare Part B Claims Analyses
Researchers can measure interpersonal continuity of care using Medicare Part B claims. Replication of these findings and further construct validation, however, are needed prior to widespread adoption of this method
Self-Rated Health Trajectories and Mortality Among Older Adults
Although measures of prior SRH trajectories did not have significant direct associations with mortality, they did have important indirect effects via their influence on current SRH
Hospital Episodes and Physician Visits
BACKGROUND: Health services use typically is examined using either self-reports or administrative data, but the concordance between the 2 is not well established. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the concordance of hospital and physician utilization data from self-reports and claims data, and identified factors associated with disagreement. METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis on linked observational and administrative data. A national sample of 431…
Epistemological Pluralism
Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin, III, and C. L. Redman. 2008. Epistemological pluralism: reorganizing interdisciplinary research. Ecology and Society 13(2): 46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02671-130246
The future of sustainability science
Regional sociotechnical imaginaries and the governance of energy innovations
Constructing sustainability science
Imaginaries of Sustainability
Sustainability, particularly as articulated in cities, acts as an imaginary that shapes science, technology and social order to attain desirable futures. Imaginaries of sustainability represent visions of social and natural well-being now and into the future. Like sociotechnical imaginaries, imaginaries of sustainability are both descriptive of potential futures and prescriptive about the futures that ought to be pursued. Proponents of smart citi…
Governing urban resilience
This paper describes how urban resilience governance is structured and coordinated in 20 North American cities (19 US and one Canadian) based on interviews with city officials. This co-produced research evolved out of conversations with city officials in Portland, Oregon, who were interested to learn how other cities were organising resilience work. Interviews focused on emerging definitions, organisational structures, internal and external coord…
Self-Rated Health Trajectories and Mortality Among Older Adults
Although measures of prior SRH trajectories did not have significant direct associations with mortality, they did have important indirect effects via their influence on current SRH
De-Facto Science Policy in the Making
Urban Techno-Politics
Urban regions, which are today home to more than half of the world’s population, have long served as vibrant centers of social, political and economic life (Mumford, 1961; Hall, 1998; Glaeser, 2011
Self-Rated Health
The decline in SRH levels among 49- to 65-year-old African Americans is comparable to that of Whites
An Interpersonal Continuity of Care Measure for Medicare Part B Claims Analyses
Researchers can measure interpersonal continuity of care using Medicare Part B claims. Replication of these findings and further construct validation, however, are needed prior to widespread adoption of this method
STIRring the grid
Since the first electrification systems were established in the United States between 1910 and 1930, energy systems governance at the municipal level has included competing visions for how engineering design and energy policy-making should foster particular social outcomes. Using Phoenix as a representative metropolitan area, and the cases of distributed generation and in-home power management devices as examples, this paper explores how the norm…
The Community Watershed Stewardship Program
Hair in African Art and Culture
Hair in African Art and Culture. The Museum for African Art, New York, February 9-May 28, 2000 (review venue); Apex Museum, Atlanta, July-September 2000; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, October-December 2000; Museum of African American History, Detroit, January-April 2001; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, May-August 2001.Hair in African Art and Culture. Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman. eds.…
Mannequins and Spirits
In the early 20th century anthropologists collected sounds, images and artifacts to represent traditional cultures. Under the direction of Franz Boas, anthropologists working for the American Museum of Natural History's JesupNorth Pacific Expedition documented a variety of northeastern Siberian shamanisms. Demonstrations staged for the phonograph and the camera served as models for museum representations. These ethnographic inscriptions, together…
Mannequins and Spirits
In the early 20th century anthropologists collected sounds, images and artifacts to represent traditional cultures. Under the direction of Franz Boas, anthropologists working for the American Museum of Natural History's JesupNorth Pacific Expedition documented a variety of northeastern Siberian shamanisms. Demonstrations staged for the phonograph and the camera served as models for museum representations. These ethnographic inscriptions, together…
Hair in African Art and Culture
Hair in African Art and Culture. The Museum for African Art, New York, February 9-May 28, 2000 (review venue); Apex Museum, Atlanta, July-September 2000; Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, October-December 2000; Museum of African American History, Detroit, January-April 2001; California African American Museum, Los Angeles, May-August 2001.Hair in African Art and Culture. Roy Sieber and Frank Herreman. eds.…
What Would Be the Effect of Referral to High‐Volume Hospitals in a Largely Rural State
Context: Volume of certain surgical procedures has been linked to patient outcomes. The Leapfrog Group and others have recommended evidence‐based referral using specific volume thresholds for nonemergent cases. The literature is limited on the effect of such referral on hospitals, especially in rural areas. Purpose: To examine the impact of evidence‐based referral by volume standard for 5 hospital procedures (abdominal aortic artery repair, coron…
Intensive Care Unit Utilization and Interhospital Transfers As Potential Indicators of Rural Hospital Quality
Context: Obtaining meaningful information from statistically valid and reliable measures of the quality of care for disease‐specific care provided in small rural hospitals is limited by small numbers of cases and different definitive care capacities. An alternative approach may be to aggregate and analyze patient services that reflect more generalized care processes. Purpose: To evaluate the applicability of intensive care unit (ICU) utilization …
Effects of Specialty Hospitals on the Financial Performance of General Hospitals, 1997–2004
Hospital specialization has become a controversial topic, culminating in a moratorium issued in 2003 by Congress directing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to cease payments to new physician-owned specialty hospitals for those Medicare and Medicaid patients referred by physicians with a financial interest in the facility. This paper focuses on one important economic question: does the presence of specialty hospitals in a market affe…
Self-Rated Health
The decline in SRH levels among 49- to 65-year-old African Americans is comparable to that of Whites
An Interpersonal Continuity of Care Measure for Medicare Part B Claims Analyses
Researchers can measure interpersonal continuity of care using Medicare Part B claims. Replication of these findings and further construct validation, however, are needed prior to widespread adoption of this method
Self-Rated Health Trajectories and Mortality Among Older Adults
Although measures of prior SRH trajectories did not have significant direct associations with mortality, they did have important indirect effects via their influence on current SRH
Hospital Episodes and Physician Visits
BACKGROUND: Health services use typically is examined using either self-reports or administrative data, but the concordance between the 2 is not well established. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the concordance of hospital and physician utilization data from self-reports and claims data, and identified factors associated with disagreement. METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis on linked observational and administrative data. A national sample of 431…
Epistemological Pluralism
Miller, T. R., T. D. Baird, C. M. Littlefield, G. Kofinas, F. Chapin, III, and C. L. Redman. 2008. Epistemological pluralism: reorganizing interdisciplinary research. Ecology and Society 13(2): 46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02671-130246
Patient-Centered Medical Homes
Many are calling for the expansion of the patient-centered medical home model into rural and underserved populations as a transformative strategy to address issues of access, efficiency, quality, and sustainability in the delivery of health care. Patient-centered medical homes have been touted as a promising cost-saving model for comprehensive management of persons with chronic diseases and disabilities, but it is unclear how rural practitioners …
Constructing sustainability science
Contesting Sustainability
Despite decade old calls for a “just sustainability,” urban sustainability policy and practice remains oriented toward environmental outcomes and eco-lifestyle projects. Notions of equity, justice, and inclusion continue to be marginalized in favor of technological solutions, such as green buildings, that are visible, easy to implement, and help to promote economic development. By examining a controversy over a bikeway development project in a ra…
The future of sustainability science
De-Facto Science Policy in the Making
The Community Watershed Stewardship Program
STIRring the grid
Since the first electrification systems were established in the United States between 1910 and 1930, energy systems governance at the municipal level has included competing visions for how engineering design and energy policy-making should foster particular social outcomes. Using Phoenix as a representative metropolitan area, and the cases of distributed generation and in-home power management devices as examples, this paper explores how the norm…
Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (Setss) to Address Lock‐in and Enhance Resilience
Traditional infrastructure adaptation to extreme weather events (and now climate change) has typically been techno‐centric and heavily grounded in robustness—the capacity to prevent or minimize disruptions via a risk‐based approach that emphasizes control, armoring, and strengthening (e.g., raising the height of levees). However, climate and nonclimate challenges facing infrastructure are not purely technological. Ecological and social systems al…
Social equity in urban resilience planning
A growing number of cities are incorporating resilience into their plans and policies to respond to shocks, stresses, and uncertainties. While some scholars advocate for the potential of resilience research and practice, others argue that it promotes an inherently conservative and neoliberal agenda, prevents systemic transformations, and pays insufficient attention to power, politics, and justice. Notably, critics of the urban resilience agenda a…
Imaginaries of Sustainability
Sustainability, particularly as articulated in cities, acts as an imaginary that shapes science, technology and social order to attain desirable futures. Imaginaries of sustainability represent visions of social and natural well-being now and into the future. Like sociotechnical imaginaries, imaginaries of sustainability are both descriptive of potential futures and prescriptive about the futures that ought to be pursued. Proponents of smart citi…
Regional sociotechnical imaginaries and the governance of energy innovations
Infrastructure governance for the Anthropocene
Transitioning infrastructure governance for accelerating, increasingly uncertain, and increasingly complex environments is paramount for ensuring that critical and basic services are met during times of stability and instability. Yet the bureaucratic structures that dominate infrastructure organizations and their capacity to respond to increasing complexity remain poorly understood. To change infrastructure governance, it is critical to understan…
Urban Techno-Politics
Urban regions, which are today home to more than half of the world’s population, have long served as vibrant centers of social, political and economic life (Mumford, 1961; Hall, 1998; Glaeser, 2011
Pilot project purgatory? Assessing automated vehicle pilot projects in U.S. cities
Pilot projects have emerged in cities globally as a way to experiment with the utilization of a suite of smart mobility and emerging transportation technologies. Automated vehicles (AVs) have become central tools for such projects as city governments and industry explore the use and impact of this emerging technology. This paper presents a large-scale assessment of AV pilot projects in U.S. cities to understand how pilot projects are being used t…
The Eco-Techno Spectrum
Infrastructure crises are not only technical problems for engineers to solve—they also present social, ecological, financial, and political challenges. Addressing infrastructure problems thus requires a robust planning process that includes examination of the social and ecological systems supporting infrastructure, alongside technical systems. An integrative Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (SETS) analysis of infrastructure solutions…
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