RESOURCES

Climate Justice 

• The First Climate Refugees (NRDC, September 23, 2019)

• Climate Migration: Editorials and Review Articles (nature climate change, November 26, 2019)

• In California, a marginalized community on climate action plan (Marin Independent Journal, December 20, 2019)

• Story Map: Effects of Climate Change on Marginalized Communities (January 23, 2020)

• Opinion Piece: Q & A with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (Boston Globe, August 8, 2020)

• Students on Climate & Social Justice (Audubon, September 14, 2020)

• How Climate Migration Will Reshape America (The New York Times Magazine, September 15, 2020)

• As Miami Keeps Building, Rising Seas Deepen Its Social Divide (Yale Environment 360, September 29, 2020)

• What is Climate Justice? (Yale Climate Connections, July 29, 2020)

• Climate Change Threatens Homes of Boston's Most Vulnerable (NBC Boston, January 28, 2021)

• Near Coasts, Rising Seas Could Also Push Up Long-Buried Toxic Contamination (NPR, February 8, 2021)

• High ground, high prices: How climate change is speeding gentrification in some of America’s most flooding-vulnerable cities (CNN, March 3, 2021)

• Women Run the Climate World. Just Ask Elizabeth Yeampierre (Atmos Earth, March 10, 2021)

• Activists hail Massachusetts law as crucial step on environmental justice (The Guardian, April 2, 2021)

• Why Atlantic City’s minority neighborhoods are also its most flooded (NJ Spotlight, April 5, 2021)

• FL Legislators commit more money to sea rise but at the expense of affordable housing (News Service of Florida, April 8, 2021)

• Sea Levels Are Rising in the Bay — and East Palo Alto Is on the Front Lines (KQED, May 3, 2021)

• All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson

• UN on Climate Justice

• Coming Storms: Climate Change and the Rising Threat to America’s Coastal Seniors (Climate Central)

• Nantucket Historical Association Digital Exhibit: The Road from Abolition to Suffrage

• Lowland Kids: Growing up on a Disappearing Island

• Nantucket Doesn’t Belong to the Preppies (Atlantic, August 2021)

  

In the News: Sea Level Rise Around the World

• Studies Sound Alarm on “Badly Out-of-Date” FEMA Flood Maps (Scientific American, February 27, 2020)

• Report: Flooded Future: Global vulnerability to sea level rise worse than previously understood (Climate Central, October 29, 2019)

• Risky Lending in Flood Zones (Harvard Magazine, July 1, 2020)

• Coastal Banks Shed Risky Mortgages—Putting the Financial System at Risk (Harvard Magazine, July 1, 2020)

• New Data Shows an ‘Extraordinary’ Rise in U.S. Coastal Flooding (New York Times, July 14, 2020)

• Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century (Nature, July 30, 2020)

• Rising Seas Could Menace Millions Beyond Shorelines, Study Finds (New York Times, July 30, 2020)

• The journal Nature: The causes of sea-level rise since 1900 (Nature, August 19, 2020)

• Americans Back Tough Limits on Building in Fire and Flood Zones (New York Times, September 4, 2020)

• A new island of hope rising from the Indian Ocean (BBC Travel, September 10, 2020)

• Climate Adaptation Plans to Sea Level Rise (The Ocean Foundation, September 14, 2020)

• America Adapts with Greg Parsons

• Climate Change Floods North Carolina’s Housing Market (NRDC, October 6, 2020)

• Port engineers need guidance incorporating sea level rise into construction designs (Journal of Waterway, Port, Coastal, and Ocean Engineering, October 13, 2020)

• What are 10 ways homeowners can adapt to coastal flooding? (The Press of Atlantic City, October 14, 2020)

• Undisclosed: Most Homebuyers And Renters Aren't Warned About Flood Or Wildfire Risk (NPR, October 18, 2020)

• Sea level rise forces property owners, tenants to relocate (The Guardian, October 19, 2020)

• Miami Beach wants to help homeowners adapt to sea level rise with matching grants (Miami Herald, December 15, 2020)

• A Struggling California Marsh Gets an Overhaul to Prepare for Rising Seas (Audubon Magazine, Winter 2020)

• New study warns that sea levels will rise faster than expected (February 2, 2021)

• Despite sea-level rise risks, migration to some threatened coastal areas may increase (February 16, 2021)

• Miami Says It Can Adapt to Rising Seas. Not Everyone Is Convinced (March 2, 2021)

• Boston is asking developers to help fund a sea wall as the city worries about rising water (The Boston Globe, August 26, 2021)
  

Suggested Reading

• The Other Islanders: People Who Pulled Nantucket’s Oars, Frances Ruley Karttunen

• Resilient Coastal Leisure Environments, Northeastern University School of Architecture

• Toward an Urban Ecology, Kate Orff SCAPE

• The New Climate War, Michael Mann

• Sea-Captains’ Houses and Rose-Covered Cottages: The Architectural Heritage of Nantucket Island

  Margaret Moore Booker, Rose Gonnella, and Patricia Egan Butler Universe Publishing (2003)

  • Chapter 1

  • Chapters 2 & 3

  • Chapters 4 & 5

Suggested reading courtesy of Chris Reed:

• Waterland, Graham Swift

• Rising, Elizabeth Rush

• Trace, Lauret Savoy

• Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer, Bren Smith

• Moby Dick, Herman Melville

• Away Off Shore: Nantucket Island and Its People, Nathaniel Philbrick

• The Nantucket Indians: Legends and Accounts Before 1659, Meredith Marshall Brenizer

• Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard & Nantucket: The Geological Story, Robert. N. Oldale

• Against the Tide: Battle for America’s Beaches, Cornelia Dean

• Nantucket: A Natural History, Peter B. Brace

Pre-Reads for Week 10: Finance and Real Estate

• Under water writing: from theory to empiricism in regional mortgage markets in the U.S. Jesse M. Keenan1 & Jacob T. Bradt2

• A climate intelligence arms race in financial markets Public policy grapples with private “black box” models by Jesse M. Keenan

• Miami-Dade County and Sea Level Rise

• Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build, Harvard Business Review, by John D. Macomber (October 16, 2019)

• Are We On the Verge of Another Financial Crisis? Harvard Business Review, by Eben Harrell (December 18, 2020)

Pre-Reads for Week 9: Coastal Policy and Historic Policy (Mar. 31)

• Jordan v. St. Johns County, May 2011

• Jordan vs. St. Johns County, trial decision

• Responding to Nuisance Flooding of Coastal Highways: Options for Massachusetts Municipalities Fall 2020

• Climate Change and Government Negligence Liability in Massachusetts Fall 2020

• Maintenance of Water and Sewer Infrastructure in Response to Sea Level Rise in Massachusetts Fall 2020

• Takings Liability and Coastal Management in Massachusetts Fall 2020

• Resilient Heritage in the Nation's Oldest City: A Storymap

• Annapolis Historic Preservation Tax Credit

• Building Community Resilience with Nature-Based Solutions, FEMA

• National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP): Floodplain Management Bulletin, Historic Structures, FEMA (May 2008)

Pre-Reads for Week 8: Human Dynamics and Decision Making (Mar. 24)

• National Adaptation Forum presentation “Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU)” by Robert Lempert Director, RAND Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, April 2019

• Results from RAND Corporation Participatory Local Planning Workshop: Implementing a New Mobility Vision for Rancho Higuera in a Deeply Uncertain, Fast-Changing World by Robert J. Lempert, Tim McDonald, Steven W. Popper, Diogo Prosdocimi, Thomas S. Small

• Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty From Theory to Practice, Editors: Marchau, V.A.W.J., Walker, W.E., Bloemen, P.J.T.M., Popper, S.W. (Eds.), 2019

  • Read Chapter 2

• Siders, A.R. “Managed Retreat in the United States.” One Earth, vol. 1, no. 2, 2019, pp. 216–225., doi:10.1016/j.oneear.2019.09.008.

• America Adapts podcast: Everything you wanted to know about Managed Retreat (but were afraid to ask) with Dr. AR Siders, November 2019

• Dawson, Tom, et al. “Coastal Heritage, Global Climate Change, Public Engagement, and Citizen Science.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 117, no. 15, 2020, pp. 8280–8286., doi:10.1073/pnas.1912246117.

• Schneider-Mayerson, Matthew. “‘Just as in the Book’? The Influence of Literature on Readers’ Awareness of Climate Injustice and Perception of Climate Migrants.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, vol. 27, no. 2, 2020, pp. 337–364., doi:10.1093/isle/isaa020.

Pre-Reads for Week 7: Resilience and exploration of successful adaptations (Mar. 17)

• Views of Nature, Or, Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation: With Scientific Illustrations by Alexander von Humboldt

• Projective Ecologies by Chris Reed and Nina-Marie Lister

  • Introduction and “Parallel Genealogies” chapter

Pre-Reads for Week 6: Living with water through Design (Mar. 10)

• Sink or Swim, Architecture Today by Iñaki Alday

• Excerpt from River. Space. Design: Planning Strategies, Methods and Projects for Urban Rivers, Edited by Birkhauser, authored by German Scholars

  • River.Space.Design

• River Park as a Place of Movement, European Landscape Magazine, by Elizabeth K. Meyer (2014)

• Hill, K., "Armatures for Coastal resilience," in Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning, E. Mossop, ed., Taylor and Francis, London, 2018.

• Hill, K. “Coastal Infrastructure: a Typology for the next Century of Adaptation to Sea‐Level Rise.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, vol. 13, no. 9, 2015, pp. 468–476., doi:10.1890/150088.

Midterm Reviews (Mar. 3)

• No Speaker Series

Pre-Reads for Week 4: Preservation Architecture Studies (Feb. 24)

• Miami Beach Buoyant City: Historic District Resiliency & Adaptation Guideline

• 2020 Nantucket Preservation Symposium, Erin Minnigan, Preservation Society of Charleston

• Anna Bierbauer and Andrew Rumbach, historic preservation and climate resilience (2020): “Are We Protecting Our History? A Municipal-Scale Analysis of Historic Preservation, Flood Hazards, and Planning.”

• Jenifer Eggleston, Jennifer Parker, Jennifer Wellock, National Park Service & U.S. Department of Interior (2019): Guidelines on Flood Adaptation for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings

• National Park Service & U.S. Department of Interior (August 2015): Final Report Katrina Recovery, Emergency Supplemental Historic Preservation Fund - Hurricane Katrina Recovery Grant Program

Pre-Read for Week 3: Urban Ecology Case Studies (Feb. 17)

• Elizabeth Rush, “The Password: Jacob’s Point, Rhode Island” (pp.1-15), Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2018

Pre-Reads for Week 2: Green Infrastructure (Feb. 10)

• Nantucket: A Natural History, Peter B. Brace

  • From chapter “Water: Salt and Fresh” read Evolving Harbors beginning page 192

• Valuing natural habitats for enhancing coastal resilience: Wetlands reduce property damage from storm surge and sea level rise by Rezaie AM, Loerzel J, Ferreira CM (2020)

• Future of our coasts: The potential for natural and hybrid infrastructure to enhance the resilience of our coastal communities, economies and ecosystems by Ariana E. Sutton-Grier, Kateryna Wowk, Holly Bamford (2015)

• Charleston Peninsula Coastal Flood Risk Management Study (US Army Corps of Engineers, 2020)

• Town of Nantucket: Wilkes Square Redevelopment (September 2010)

• Town of Nantucket: Harbor Place, Transportation Solutions and a New Waterfront Vision (2016)

• NOAA Sea Level Rise Viewer (Nantucket has adopted the High scenario for all planning)

• MA CZML Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model

• WPA 2.0 Beauty, Economics, Politics, and the Creation of New Public Infrastructure, by Susannah C. Drake (2016)

Pre-Reads for Week 1: Transportation, Mobility and Infrastructure Management (Feb. 3)

• Interdependencies of urban climate change impacts and adaptation strategies: a case study of Metropolitan Boston USA by Paul Kirshen & Matthias Ruth & William Anderson (Received: 6 October 2005 / Accepted: 30 November 2006)

• Integrated assessment of storm surge barrier systems under present and future climates and comparison to alternatives: a case study of Boston, USA by Paul Kirshen, Mark Borrelli, Jarrett Byrnes, Robert Chen, Lucy Lockwood, Chris Watson, Kimberly Starbuck, Jack Wiggin, Allison Novelly, et al. (Received: 19 February 2019 / Accepted: 25 June 2020/

• Climate Change Prioritization: Cost Effectively Building Resilience Using High-Resolution Modeling, Kirk F. Bosma, P.E. Team Leader/Senior Coastal Engineer Woods Hole Group Eco Magazine September 2016

• Falmouth Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment

• Falmouth Coastal Resilience Planning Surf Drive Area

• MassDOT-FHWA Climate Change Vulnerability Pilot Project Report

• 2020 Nantucket Preservation Symposium, Tom O'Shea, The Trustees of Reservations

• Adapting Historic Structures to Climate Change in Portsmouth NH: GEI Report Template Feb2009 and MSWord 2007 (cityofportsmouth.com)

• Adapting Infrastructure and Civil Engineering Practice to a Changing Climate by ASCE