The Path to Resilience project is led by the NH Coastal Adaptation Workgroup (CAW) partners, and focuses on work achieved by CAW’s 10 years of collaborative efforts to support resilient communities in coastal New Hampshire. The goals of the project are to (1) document lessons learned (through development of case stories) to help CAW and coastal NH communities promote their coastal resilience work and (2) support expansion of climate adaptation work into upper coastal watershed communities by conducting an assessment of upper watershed communities’ needs and opportunities and a coastal/upper watershed community transfer and networking event.

Project products include:

• A summary of community lessons and best practices 
• A series of NH coastal community resilience stories:
  • Dover – timeline of resilience-related projects from 2014 to today
  • Exeter – video summarizing climate adaptation efforts over the last decade
  • Hampton – narrated timeline of resilience projects and initiatives from 2010-2021
  • New Castle – summary of projects related to Lavenger Creek that will be used to support a video developed by the Conservation Commission in late 2022
  • Newmarket – timeline with a selection of projects that increase resilience of the community, infrastructure, and surrounding water resources
  • Portsmouth – story map documenting 10 years of assessing vulnerability and building resilience
  • Rye – interactive picture book summarizing resilience projects
• A needs and opportunities assessment for upper watershed communities