Climate change is affecting Indiana's environment, threatening the way Hoosiers live and do business, and introducing new stresses to the state's economy, health, and infrastructure. And while scientists predict more days of extreme weather, increased public health risks, and reduced agricultural production in the coming years, Hoosiers still have a substantial say in determining their future environment.
Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond confirms that Indiana can rise to meet this threat. The culmination of Indiana University's Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenge, this collection showcases how scientists, policymakers, communicators, and others are working hard to protect Indiana's economy and way of life by becoming more resilient. Researchers are creating new environmental resilience frameworks, building on years of existing research on how ecosystems can adapt, how social systems process threats in order to change, and how individuals themselves fit into the larger picture. In addition to presenting research results, Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond provides clear examples of how Hoosiers can make a difference by reducing risks, lessening the harmful impacts of climate change, and preparing for the unavoidable.
What emerges in these pages is a hopeful, optimistic picture of how resilience is generalizable across systemsfrom forests to farms to citiesand how Hoosiers are mobilizing this resilience in the face of climate change.
This is the final output of one of IU's Grand ChallengesPrepared for Environmental Change Grand Challengecarried out by IU's Environmental Resilience Institute, beginning in 2017.
The work is intended as a crossover publication, hence the emphasis on narrative writing when possible and color images.
Climate change is of course a current, popular topic
Provides an up-to-the-minute snapshot of how Indiana is doing, in terms of resilience under climate change.
Very few published in-depth assessments of a single state's climate resilience
