Data from: Extreme heat adaptation planning: A review of evaluation, monitoring, and reporting

Extreme heat events are increasing in intensity and duration. Although
heat adaptation planning is increasing across the US, the effectiveness of
adaptation strategies across contexts remains unknown. Evaluation helps
heat adaptation planners understand the impact of investments and increase
accountability. To understand how evaluation is or is not happening in
extreme heat planning, we purposively sampled and analyzed 65 plans that
would likely include extreme heat adaptation strategies. We found that
although 55% (n=36) of plans included heat evaluation or monitoring plans
in some form, fewer than 30% (n=19) were associated with subsequent
reports. Of these, only six were implemented as planned, and none were
implemented at the regional or neighborhood level. We also found that
monitoring indicators did not match the heat impacts, vulnerabilities, and
needs identified in the plan. We provide evaluation recommendations to
guide and support evaluation and monitoring efforts in the heat planning
process. This dataset is an Excel spreadsheet that includes the full plan
list and coding, the coding instructions and the full 399 indicators list
as well as a duplicate of the summary table included in the
article.