Staff profile

PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Geography, 2014

MS, The Pennsylvania State University, Geography, 2006

BS, The Pennsylvania State University, Earth Sciences, 2004

Book review

• Knuth, S. (2023). Review: The Thread of Energy. Society & Natural Resources, https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2199709
• Knuth, S. (2018). Book Review Forum: 'DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City Without Services' by Kimberley Kinder, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2016. The AAG Review of Books, 6(3), 218-219. https://doi.org/10.1080/2325548x.2018.1471951
• Davidson, M., Ward, K., Jonas, A. E., Knuth, S., Weber, R., Wilson, D., & Sbragia, A. (2017). Book Review Forum: Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, US Federalism, and Economic Development. Urban Geography, 38(8), 1282-1289. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2017.1349990

Chapter in book

• Knuth, S. (2023). Budgeting for climate justice? Contested futures of urban finance. In J. L. Rice, J. Long, & A. Levenda (Eds.), Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, Resistance (66-88). University of Georgia Press
• Knuth, S., & Taylor, Z. (2023). Climate finance. In International Encyclopedia of Geography. Wiley
• Knuth, S. (2021). Fictions of Safety: Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment. In D. A. Ghertner, & R. W. Lake (Eds.), Land Fictions: The Commodification of Land in City and Country. Cornell University Press

Journal Article

• Wagner, J., Kear, M., Knuth, S., Zavareh Hofmann, S., & Taylor, Z. J. (online). Grappling with real property supremacy in US urban climate finance. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2024.2367922
• Ventrella, J., & Knuth, S. (2024). Transitioning the grid for climate change: power transmission futures and grid justice. Environmental Research: Energy, 1(4), Article 045008. https://doi.org/10.1088/2753-3751/ad89c3
• Knuth, S. (2023). Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies. Environment and Planning A, 55(6), 1548–1564. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x211062601
• Wei Zheng, H., Bouzarovski, S., Knuth, S., Panteli, M., Schindler, S., Ward, K., & Williams, J. (2023). Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence. Geopolitics, 28(1), 310-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2021.1901084
• van Veelen, B., & Knuth, S. (2023). An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(2), 904 - 927. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231179815
• Taylor, Z. J., & Knuth, S. E. (2023). Financing “climate-proof” housing? The premises and pitfalls of PACE finance in Florida. Journal of Urban Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2247503
• Knuth, S., Behrsin, I., Levenda, A., & McCarthy, J. (2022). New Political Ecologies of Renewable Energy. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(3), 997-1013. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486221108164
• Turley, B., Cantor, A., Berry, K., Knuth, S., Mulvaney, D., & Vineyard, N. (2022). Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States. Energy Research and Social Science, 90, Article 102583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2022.102583
• Behrsin, I., Knuth, S., & Levenda, A. (2022). Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 5(2), 762-786. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486211006340
• Knuth, S., Stehlin, J., & Millington, N. (2020). Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale. Urban Geography, 41(10), 1335-1343. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1850024
• Knuth, S. (2020). ‘All that is Solid … ’. City: analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action, 24(1-2), 65-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2020.1739903
• Payne, W., Knuth, S., & Mahmoudi, D. (2020). Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques. Urban Geography, 41(8), 1033-1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1820678
• Knuth, S., Potts, S., & Goldstein, J. (2019). In Value’s Shadows: Devaluation as Accumulation Frontier. Environment and Planning A, 51(2), 461-466. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18806112
• Knuth, S. (2019). Cities and Planetary Repair: The Problem with Climate Retrofitting. Environment and Planning A, 51(2), 487-504. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18793973
• Cantor, A., & Knuth, S. (2019). Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea. Environment and Planning A, 51(2), 527-544. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x18796510
• Knuth, S. (2019). Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(2), 634-643. https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2018.1523001
• Knuth, S. (2018). “Breakthroughs” for a Green Economy? Financialization and Clean Energy Transition. Energy Research and Social Science, 41, 220-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.024
• Knuth, S. (2016). Green Devaluation: Disruption, Divestment, and Decommodification for a Green Economy. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 28(1), 98-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2016.1266001
• Knuth, S. (2016). Book Review: The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law. Journal of Historical Geography, 57, 118-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2016.11.001
• Knuth, S. (2015). Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 48(3), 626-644. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12205
• Knuth, S., & Potts, S. (2015). Legal Geographies of Finance, Editors' Introduction. Environment and Planning A, 48(3), 458-464. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518x15613356
• Knuth, S. E. (2015). Global Finance and the Land Grab: Mapping Twenty-First Century Strategies. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 36(2), 163-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2015.1046373
• Knuth, S. E. (2010). Addressing Place in Climate Change Mitigation: Reducing Emissions in a Suburban Landscape. Applied Geography, 30(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.01.001
• Knuth, S., Nagle, B., Steuer, C., & Yarnal, B. (2007). Universities and Climate Change Mitigation: Advancing Grassroots Climate Policy in the US. Local Environment, 12(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/13549830701657059

Other (Print)

• Bigger, P., & Knuth, S. (2023). Pennsylvania’s Housing Justice Campaign’s Promising Win