NEW BEDFORD AND FAIRHAVEN RESOURCES

The Envision Resilience New Bedford and Fairhaven Challenge resource library is for both participating university teams and the community to investigate climate change impacts globally and locally.

Mapping and Tools

BUILDING COMMUNITY RESILIENCE WITH NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS, FEMA (published March 2023)

MC-FRM Massachusetts State Resilience mapping tool

MC-FRM Earthstar Geographics Coast Flood Risk Model New Bedford / Fairhaven Coastal Viewer

The Hurricane Barrier

Floodplains and Expansion

Climate Adaptation and Storm Planning

FEMA Hazard Risk Map

EPA Disaster Resilient Design Concepts (February 2023)

Erosion at the Watershed Scale Report

Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool

Equity-eligible Buildings Mapping Tool

Reports

• Groundwork Southcoast: Climate Safe Neighborhoods & Climate Resiliency Planning (June 2022)

• State of the Coast 2022: Future Climate-Driven Risks and Their Solutions on Massachusetts’ South Coast (Trustees of Reservation) 

• City of New Bedford Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Program Summary of Workshops Finding (June 2018)

• Town of Fairhaven Municipal Vulnerability Preparedness Planning Summary of Workshops Finding (April 2020)

• New Bedford, Massachusetts Environmental Justice in the Twenty-First Century (June 2016) report by the Conservation Law Foundation

• Historic New England Town, Once Plagued by Tack Factory's Toxic Pollution, Enjoys Revitalized Coastal Marshes (Fairhaven - NOAA)

• ASCE: Coastal Defense Megaprojects in an Era of Sea-Level Rise: Politically Feasible Strategies or Army Corps Fantasies?

• Managing Flooding and Erosion at the Watershed Scale: Guidance to Support Governments Using Nature-Based Solutions (CSA Group, 2023)

• Trust for Public Land, New Bedford

• “Overly Impacted and Rarely Heard: Incorporating Community Voices Into Massachusetts Energy Regulatory Processes.” (forthcoming, 2023)

• Climate Adaptation Guide for Cultural Resources

• Guidebook: Ocean Climate Funding For Coastal Cities

• Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Landscape Architecture

• Status of Tribes and Climate Change Report (2021)

• Climate Change in the American Mind: Climate Justice, Spring 2023

• Nature Based Solutions for Cities

• The Circularity Gap Report 2023

• Affordable Homes Act Fact Sheet 2023

• International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023

Global Resilience

• Five Ways to Prevent the Next Sandy (New York Times, October 2022)

• Reframing strategic, managed retreat for transformative climate adaptation (Science Journal, June 2021)

• Climate-induced managed retreat in the U.S.: A review of current research (ScienceDirect, 2021)

• The island people with a climate change escape plan (BBC News, September 2017)

• Ocean-Eaten Islands, Fire-Scarred Forests: Our Changing World in Pictures (New York Times, November 2022)

• Nature Based Solutions Road Map (The White House, November 2022)

• What’s really driving ‘climate gentrification’ in Miami? It’s not fear of sea-level rise (The Conversation, December 2022)

• The Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Subnational Economies by Moody’s Analytics (February 2023)

• Tonga–On The Frontlines of Sea Level Rise (The Commonwealth, January 2023)

• How do mangroves provide coastal resilience in the Global South? (One Earth, 2019)

• MVRDV envisions Vancouver in 2100 with predicted sea level rise (dezeen, January 2023)

• King tides offer clues about effects of rising sea levels (KGW8, January 2023)

• The Key to Rapid Sea-Level Rise May Lie In A Massachusetts Salt Marsh (UMass Amherst, January 2023)

• An HBCU’s Historic Preservation Program Starts With Its Own Campus (Metropolis Mag, December 2022)

• Mussels and Other Aquatic Animals Provide Critical Coastal Ecosystem Protections (Yale School of Environment, march 2023)

• FloodVision Coastal Risk Screening Tool

• A Resilient New York City Requires Social Infrastructure Too (Reboot, June 2013)

• Grid Modernization in Massachusetts webinar (Green Energy Consumers Alliance, 2023)

• The Fundamentals (and ethics) of Architecture and Climate Adaptation

• Building Alliances Resources (FEMA)

• Triple Decker Design Challenge (Massachusetts Clean Energy Center)

• How to Cool Down a City (New York Times, September 2023)

• The Big City Where Housing Is Still Affordable (New York Times, September 2023)

• Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge

• People and coastal ecosystems adapt to relative sea-level rise (Nature.com, September 2023)

• Abandoned Lands: A Hidden Resource for Restoring Biodiversity (Fred Pearce, October 2023)

• Invasive Species Are Just Resources Misplaced (Albizia Project, 2021)

Climate Justice

• Grappling with the Racist Legacy of Zoning (American Planning Association, January 2022)

• Liberty City is rapidly transforming. Residents are split on who will benefit. (Miami Herald, May 2021)

• With climate planning, Boston has a chance to redress racial inequity, report says (Boston Globe, March 2023)

• Becoming Frederick Douglass (PBS) 

• Tribal Marines Steward Network

• Heat Islands Create health Risks in Some New Bedford Neighborhoods (New Bedford Light, 2022)

• Toward Reparative Design Pedagogies (Song, 2023)

• Is It Too Late To Save The Planet? Evidence based hope vs Climate Doomism with Elin Kelsey (QueerBrownVegan, 2023)

• Joseph Kunkel Is Fast-Tracking Quality Housing for Indigenous People (Metropolis Mag, October 2020)

• Mariam Kamara Could Profoundly Change Design Pedagogy Everywhere (Metropolis Mag, April 2022)

• The Fight for Oak Flat: Indigenous voices in the green energy transition (Native News Online, August 2023)

• Environmental + Climate Justice Syllabus (Just Environments Lab)

• With TikTok and Lawsuits, Gen Z Takes on Climate Change (New York Times, August 2023)

In the Press: New Bedford and Fairhaven

• Fishermans’ Oral Histories (New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center)

• Sea level rise threatens New Bedford’s fishing port and could put South Coast towns under water, new report finds (The Boston Globe, September 2022)

• Rising seas threaten Massachusetts South Coast and prosperous fishing port, report finds. Here are five takeaways. (WBUR, September 2022)

• NB Resilient Takes a Person-Centered Approach to Climate Change (Coastline, July 2019)

• ‘Waiting for the ultimate test’: What to know about the New Bedford Hurricane Barrier (SouthCoast Today, September 2022)

• New Bedford Hurricane Barrier: Not An ‘Impermeable Line of Defense’ Against Climate Change (WBUR, July 2017)

• Super Nasty: Southern New England Bathes in Toxic Waste (ecoRI News, February 2023)

• New Bedford's Harbor Is a Billion Dollars Cleaner, But Long-Term Impacts Remain (WGBH, July 2021)

• Fishing industry: Millions more needed to support NOAA surveys amid wind development (New Bedford Light, March 2023)

• Offshore wind in New Bedford: A guide to what you need to know (South Coast Today, March 2023)

• Tidal marsh restoration underway on Fairhaven side of New Bedford Harbor coastline (South Coast Today, April 2023)

• Trouble with a Capital T (Will Gardner, 2023)

• Silly Rabbit (Will Gardner, 2023)

• Buzzards Bay Coalition’s Dan Goulart: ‘I swam back to my home bay’ (New Bedford Light, 2023)

• We Asked, You Answered: Do you think you’ll ride the train from New Bedford to Boston? (New Bedford Light, 2023)

• Building a global pipeline for wind jobs on the South Coast (New Bedford Light, August 2023)

• Developers touted local jobs in offshore energy — are they delivering? (New Bedford Light, August 2023)

• Rising sea levels bring salt water to private wells (New Bedford Light, August 2023)

• Hurricanes are getting stronger — but so is the South Coast’s storm defense (Adam Goldstein, September 2023)

• 570 New Bedford homes stand vacant (Grace Ferguson, August 2023)

• ‘New Bedford is my place’ — National Park’s Jennifer White Smith can’t imagine a better job (New Bedford Light, October 2023)

• Transit-oriented housing development tests New Bedford’s plan for neighborhoods near train stations (New Bedford Light, October 2023)

• MARKEY, WARREN, KEATING HELP SECURE $24 MILLION FEDERAL GRANT FOR PORT OF NEW BEDFORD (Office of Ed Markey, November 2023)

• Where is glauconite, the seafloor mineral challenging offshore wind? (New Bedford Light, November 2023)

• Deadly fentanyl raises stakes for addicted fishermen (New Bedford Light, November 2023)

• Educator Wolkowicz: Making sense of the world through music (New Bedford Light, November 2023)

• Gov. Healey announces new strategies for rising sea levels (New Bedford Light, December 2023)

Books

• Ricanstruction: Reminiscing & Rebuilding Puerto Rico (Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, et al., 2018) 

• The Blue Revolution (Nicholas Sullivan, May 2022)

• Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean (Christina Gerhardt, May 2023)

• Hometown (John Bullard, June 2023)

• Floodscapes (Frederic Rossano, June 2021)

• Nature Based Solutions for Cities (McPhearson, et al, 2023)

• Material Health: Design Frontiers (Jonsara Ruth, 2023)

• California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline (Rosanna Xia, September 2023)

• On the Wall Posters: Street Art (Superflat NB, September 2023)

Speaker Slides

• Session 2 (9/11/23) - Housing Affordability Breakthrough Challenge Presentation

• Session 4 (10/2/23) - Dr. Andrea Dutton’s Presentation and “An Offering from the Bayou” by Colette Pichon Battle as featured in All We Can Save

• Session 5 (11/6/23) - The Case for Nature + Engineering

• Session 6 (11/13/23) - Healthy Materials Lab, SixClasses.org and Ha/f Climate Design