Chelsea, Massachusetts is susceptible to the impacts of climate change, including increased risk of flooding, storm severity, and number of extreme heat events. City planners wish to be more proactive in planning for these impacts. We generated two guidance documents to inform the City’s boards about climate change and its impacts, vulnerabilities, and mitigation and adaptation strategies. Geographic data analysis and input from developers and board members helped with the guidance document design. Recommendations to improve planning were provided.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Rojas, Santiago
• Guay, Keith Paul
• Richard, Lauren Ann
• Hennessy, Jillian Rose

Subject

• Infrastructure
• Environment
• Community
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-101614-174110

Keyword

• Climate change mitigation
• Emergency management
• Climatic changes
• City planning

Advisor

• Tuler, Seth
• Mathisen, Paul P.

Year

• 2014

Center

• Boston, Massachusetts Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sea Grant

Date created

• 2014-10-16

Location

• Chelsea

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright