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PhD, University of California, Berkeley, Geography, 2014

MS, The Pennsylvania State University, Geography, 2006

BS, The Pennsylvania State University, Earth Sciences, 2004

Book review

• Review: The Thread of Energy
  Knuth, S. (2024). Review: The Thread of Energy. Society & Natural Resources, 37(1), 168-169. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2199709
• Book Review Forum: 'DIY Detroit: Making Do in a City Without Services' by Kimberley Kinder, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2016
  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
• Book Review Forum: Debt Wish: Entrepreneurial Cities, US Federalism, and Economic Development
  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

• Climate finance
  Knuth, S., & Taylor, Z. (2023). Climate finance. In International Encyclopedia of Geography. Wiley
• Budgeting for climate justice? Contested futures of urban finance
  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
• Fictions of Safety: Defensive Storylines in Global Property Investment
  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

• Grappling with real property supremacy in US urban climate finance
  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
• Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown
  Knuth, S., Cox, S., Hofmann, S., Morris, J., Taylor, Z., & McElvain, B. (2025). Interrupted rhythms and uncertain futures: Mortgage finance and the (spatio-) temporalities of climate breakdown. Journal of Urban Affairs, 47(1), 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2229462
• Renewables in the queue: capital landing and the present crisis in power transmission
  Knuth, S., & Ventrella, J. (2025). Renewables in the queue: capital landing and the present crisis in power transmission. Finance and Space, 2(1), 77-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115x.2025.2481071
• Financing “climate-proof” housing? The premises and pitfalls of PACE finance in Florida
  Taylor, Z. J., & Knuth, S. E. (2025). Financing “climate-proof” housing? The premises and pitfalls of PACE finance in Florida. Journal of Urban Affairs, 47(1), 53-69. https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2247503
• Transitioning the grid for climate change: power transmission futures and grid justice
  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
• Rentiers of the low-carbon economy? Renewable energy's extractive fiscal geographies
  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
• Interrogating China’s Global Urban Presence
  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
• An urban ‘age of timber’? Tensions and contradictions in the low-carbon imaginary of the bioeconomic city
  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
• New Political Ecologies of Renewable Energy
  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
• Emergent landscapes of renewable energy storage: Considering just transitions in the Western United States
  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
• Thirty states of renewability: Controversial energies and the politics of incumbent industry
  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
• Rethinking climate futures through urban fabrics: (De)growth, densification, and the politics of scale
  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
• Urban real estate technologies: genealogies, frontiers, & critiques
  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
• ‘All that is Solid … ’
  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
• In Value’s Shadows: Devaluation as Accumulation Frontier
  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
• Speculations on the postnatural: Restoration, accumulation, and sacrifice at the Salton Sea
  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
• Cities and Planetary Repair: The Problem with Climate Retrofitting
  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
• Whatever Happened to Green Collar Jobs? Populism and Clean Energy Transition
  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
• “Breakthroughs” for a Green Economy? Financialization and Clean Energy Transition
  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
• Green Devaluation: Disruption, Divestment, and Decommodification for a Green Economy
  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
• Book Review: The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law
  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
• Seeing Green in San Francisco: City as Resource Frontier
  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
• Legal Geographies of Finance, Editors' Introduction
  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
• Global Finance and the Land Grab: Mapping Twenty-First Century Strategies
  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
• Addressing Place in Climate Change Mitigation: Reducing Emissions in a Suburban Landscape
  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
• Universities and Climate Change Mitigation: Advancing Grassroots Climate Policy in the US
  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)

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