HEAT, ARBORICULTURE, AND COMMUNITY LIVELIHOOD

Week 7, Tuesday October 12

Asynchronous material to review prior to class:
- An introduction to heat and arboriculture (20 min)
- Guest talks and interviews

Danika Cooper (University of California Berkeley)
On Aridity

Kaighin McColl (FAS)*
On Drought Science

Pablo Perez-Ramos (GSD)
On Thermodynamics

David Meshoulam (Speak for the Trees)
On Urban Forestry

Jonah Susskind (SWA XL Labs)*
On Wildfires

Readings and media

Bloch, Sam. “Shade.” Places Journal, 2019.

The Great Climate Migration Has Begun

Moritz, Max A, Batllori, Enric, Bradstock, Ross A, Gill, A Malcolm, Handmer, John, Hessburg, Paul F, Leonard, Justin, et al. 2014. “Learning to Coexist with Wildfire.” Nature (London) 515 (7525): 58–66. [Teams]

Additional References

Chapin, Stuart F. III, Erica Fernandez. “Proactive Ecology for the Anthropocene.” Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 1 (2013):1-3.[Teams]

Klinenberg, Eric. “Conclusion: Emerging Dangers in the Urban Environment,” in Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago. Second edition. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2015: 225-235. [Teams]

McElhinney, Ashley M. and Richard W. Harper. Planting for Resilience: Selecting Urban Trees in Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019.

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