Collaborators
CRMC
Grover Fugate, Executive Director
James Boyd, Coastal Policy Analyst
Janet Freedman, Coastal Geologist
Department of Environmental Management
Janet Coit, Director
James Colt-Bays, Rivers and Watersheds Coordination
NRCS
Chris Miller
SaveThe Bay
Jonathan Stone, Executive Director
Tom Kutcher, Baykeeper
Wenley Ferguson, Habitat Restoration Coordinator
Rachel Calabro, Community Organizer and Advocate
USACE
Michael Riccio
URI
Jon Boothroyd
Richard Sheridan
and with Special Thanks to:
Malcolm Spaulding, Jen McCann, Bryan Oakley, Pam Rubinoff, Teresa Crean, James Boyd, Michelle Carnevale
Additional Readings
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Sea Level Rise and Rhode Island
On Resilience
Coastal Resilience
World Risk Report, 2012
New York Times Article, “Can Scientific Advice on Coastal Risk Reduction Compete with ‘We Will Not Retreat’ Politics?”
New York Times article, “Can Cities Adjust to a Retreating Coastline?”
Open Democracy: Resilience of Neoliberal Urbanism
On USACE response to climate change
USACE, Climate Change Adaptation
USACE, Coastal Risk Reduction
On wave attenuation by vegetation
Watson, James: Ecosystem-Based Adaptation in Marine Ecosystems in Response to Climate Change
Storm Surge Reduction by Mangroves
USACE: Nature and Natural- Based Features
On monitoring and modeling climate change
Climate Change and Modeling
On Rhode Island
Coastal Geology
Water Quality of the Sakonnet River
Narragansett Bay
SAMP
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