Samuel A Markolf

Biographic Data

ID2572079
NAMESamuel A Markolf
GIVEN NAMESSamuel A
FAMILY NAMEMarkolf
SIGNATUREMARKOLF S A
AFFILIATIONSArizona State University
ORCID0000-0003-4744-0006
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services

    Open AccessTimon Mcphearson, Elizabeth M Cook et al.ARTICLEOne Earth2022

  • Leveraging Sets resilience capabilities for safe-to-fail infrastructure under climate change

    Open AccessYeowon Kim, Thomaz Carvalhaes et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2022References: 13

  • Balancing efficiency and resilience objectives in pursuit of sustainable infrastructure transformations

    Open AccessSamuel A Markolf, Alysha Helmrich et al.ARTICLECurrent Opinion in Environmental…2022Cited by: 4References: 11

    Efficiency (i.e. optimized use of resources) and resilience principles (i.e. redundancy, diversity, etc.) are often at odds with one another. Despite being particularly acute within infrastructure systems, this tension appears to be under-explored. However, recent advances in ecological and social sciences provide some novel insights into navigating efficiency–resilience trade-offs. Overall, efficiency and resilience are both vital for a system's…

  • Re-imagining design storm criteria for the challenges of the 21st century

    Open AccessSamuel A Markolf, Mikhail Chester et al.ARTICLECities2021Cited by: 1References: 86

    Design storm criteria (i.e., the specific intensity and/or frequency to which infrastructure systems are designed to withstand) are a critical part of resilience efforts within urban and infrastructure systems. However, factors like climate change and increasing complexity within our urban systems call into question the viability of current approaches to and implementation of design storm criteria moving forward. This paper seeks to identify desi…

  • Understanding Urban Flood Resilience in the Anthropocene: A Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (Sets) Learning Framework

    Heejun Chang, David J Yu et al.ARTICLEAnnals of the American…2021Cited by: 2References: 50

    Urban flooding is a major concern in many cities around the world. Together with continuous urbanization, extreme weather events are likely to increase the magnitude and frequency of flood hazards and exposure in populated regions. This article examines the changing pathways of flood risk management (FRM) in Portland, Oregon; Seoul, South Korea; and Tokyo, Japan, which have different histories of land development and flood severity. We used city …

  • Infrastructure and the environment in the Anthropocene

    Open AccessMikhail Chester, Samuel A Markolf et al.ARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2019

    For centuries, man‐made infrastructure has been viewed as separate from natural systems. Yet in the past few centuries, as the scale and scope of human activities have dramatically increased, there is accumulating evidence that natural systems are becoming increasingly, and in some cases entirely, managed by humans. The dichotomy between infrastructure and the environment is narrowing, and natural systems are increasingly becoming human design sp…

  • Interdependent Infrastructure as Linked Social, Ecological, and Technological Systems (Setss) to Address Lock‐in and Enhance Resilience

    Open AccessSamuel A Markolf, Mikhail Chester et al.ARTICLEEarth's Future2018

    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…

  • The implications of scope and boundary choice on the establishment and success of metropolitan greenhouse gas reduction targets in the United States

    Open AccessSamuel A Markolf, H Scott Matthews et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2018

    In recent years, cities across the United States have devoted considerable attention and resources to developing greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and climate action plans (CAPs). Using integrated metropolitan-level GHG estimates from publicly available national datasets, we explore the implications of inventory scope and boundary choices for 41 metropolitan areas across the United States. We quantify emissions from ‘under-reported’ activities (i.…

  • An integrated approach for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from 100 U.S. metropolitan areas

    Open AccessSamuel A Markolf, H Scott Matthews et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2017

    Cities have become key players in climate change mitigation policy. To develop their climate policies, cities need good assessments of their current and future emissions. We use publically available national datasets to develop an integrated approach for estimating GHG emissions at the metropolitan level over time, between multiple locations, and across sectors. We estimate consistent production-based GHG emissions for the 100 most populated metr…