NANTUCKET 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.

Sea Level Rise Nantucket 

In the News: Nantucket

Climate Justice 

In the News: Sea Level Rise Around the World

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)

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

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

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

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

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

Midterm Reviews (Mar. 3)

  • No Speaker Series

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

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

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

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