Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond

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Editorial in the Herald Bulletin, Anderson, Indiana

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 systems—from forests to farms to cities—and how Hoosiers are mobilizing this resilience in the face of climate change.

Land Acknowledgment
Foreword, by Jeffrey S. Dukes and Melissa Widhalm
1. Introduction: Resilience and Climate Change in Indiana, by Janet G. McCabe, Gabriel M. Filippelli, Kimberly A. Novick, and James Shanahan
2. Climate and Water Systems, by Ben Kravitz, Douglas Edmonds, Gabriel M. Filippelli, Chanh Kieu, Travis A. O'Brien, Scott Robeson, Paul Staten, Brian Yanites, and Chen Zhu
3. Indiana Forest Resilience is a Matter of Scale and Perspective, by Kimberly A. Novick, Sarah Mincey, Rebecca Lave, John Baeten, Justin Maxwell, and Richard Phillips
4. Biodiversity and Species Movements: Nurturing and Managing Biodiversity in Indiana, by Ellen D. Ketterson, Daniel Becker, Geoffrey Brown, Allison Byrd, Keith Clay, Adam Fudickar, Matthew Houser, Alex Jahn, Jennifer Ann Lau, and Sarah Wanamaker
5. Hoosier Agriculture in a Changing Climate: Our Food and Farming System's History, Contemporary Challenges, and Opportunities to Sow Resilience, by Matthew Houser, James Robert Farmer, Elizabeth Grennan Browning, and John Baeten
6. Built Environments and Green Infrastructure: Growing Long-lasting Urban Resilience, by Heather L. Reynolds, Matthew Houser, Samantha L. Hamlin, Dana Habeeb, Jeffrey S. Wilson, Daniel Myers, and Gabriel M. Filippelli
7. Resilience and "The Indiana Way": Hoosiers Respond to Environmental Change, by Elizabeth Grennan Browning and Eric Sandweiss
8. Communicating Resilience: Challenges and Examples, by Beth Edwards and Nathan Geiger
9. Tools and Leadership for Community Resilience, by Janet G. McCabe and Andrea Webster
10. Equitability, Health, and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, by Gabriel M. Filippelli, Dana Habeeb, Jeffrey S. Wilson, and Heather L. Reynolds
11. Building Resilience to an Energy Transition in Indiana, by David M. Konisky, Nikolaos Zirogiannis, and Sanya Carley
12. Conclusion: Moving Forward Toward Resilience, by Eva Sanders Allen and Lingxi Chenyang
Contributors
Index

Sujets

• Midwest
• Environmental Protection
• Environmental Conservation
• Calentamiento global
• Medio Oeste de Estados Unidos
• Mensajería instantánea
• Global warming
• Midwestern United States
• Climate change
• Hoosier
• United States
• Middle West
• IN
• OH
• MI
• Nature

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• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253063960
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond
CLIMATE CHANGE AND RESILIENCE IN INDIANA AND BEYOND
EDITED BY JANET G. McCABE, GABRIEL M. FILIPPELLI, KIMBERLY A. NOVICK, AND JAMES SHANAHAN
WITH EVA SANDERS ALLEN AND LINGXI CHENYANG
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
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CONTENTS
Land Acknowledgment
Foreword Jeffrey S. Dukes and Melissa Widhalm
1 | Introduction: Resilience and Climate Change in Indiana
Janet G. McCabe, Gabriel M. Filippelli, Kimberly A. Novick, and James Shanahan
2 | Climate and Water Systems
Ben Kravitz, Douglas Edmonds, Gabriel M. Filippelli, Chanh Kieu, Travis A. O Brien, Scott Robeson, Paul Staten, Brian Yanites, and Chen Zhu
3 | Indiana Forest Resilience Is a Matter of Scale and Perspective
Kimberly A. Novick, Sarah Mincey, Rebecca Lave, John Baeten, Justin Maxwell, and Richard Phillips
4 | Biodiversity and Species Movements: Nurturing and Managing Biodiversity in Indiana
Ellen D. Ketterson, Daniel Becker, Geoffrey Brown, Allison Byrd, Keith Clay, Adam Fudickar, Matthew Houser, Alex Jahn, Jennifer A. Lau, and Sarah Wanamaker
5 | Hoosier Agriculture in a Changing Climate: Our Food and Farming System s History, Contemporary Challenges, and Opportunities to Sow Resilience
Matthew Houser, James Robert Farmer, Elizabeth Grennan Browning, and John Baeten
6 | Built Environments and Green Infrastructure: Growing Long-Lasting Urban Resilience
Heather L. Reynolds, Matthew Houser, Samantha L. Hamlin, Dana Habeeb, Jeffrey S. Wilson, Daniel Myers, and Gabriel M. Filippelli
7 | Resilience and the Indiana Way : Hoosiers Respond to Environmental Change
Elizabeth Grennan Browning and Eric Sandweiss
8 | Communicating Resilience: Challenges and Examples
Beth Edwards and Nathan Geiger
9 | Tools and Leadership for Community Resilience
Janet G. McCabe and Andrea Webster
10 | Equitability, Health, and Resilience in the Face of Climate Change
Gabriel M. Filippelli, Dana Habeeb, Jeffrey S. Wilson, and Heather L. Reynolds
11 | Building Resilience to the Energy Transition in Indiana
David M. Konisky, Nikolaos Zirogiannis, and Sanya Carley
12 | Conclusion: Moving Forward toward Resilience
Eva Sanders Allen and Lingxi Chenyang
Contributors
Index
Land Acknowledgment
THE AUTHORS OF THIS BOOK wish to honor the Indigenous Americans native to the region now known as Indiana and acknowledge that Hoosiers homes, places of work, and communities are built on Indigenous homelands and resources. We recognize the Anishinaabeg, Bodw wadmik, L nape, Kaskaskia, Kiwikapawa, myaamiaki, Peeyankih iaki, saawanwa, waayaahtanwa, Wendat-and the scores of contemporary communities that descend from these peoples-as past, present, and future caretakers of this land. 1
Let this book-both the writing and the reading of it-be one piece of our collective journey to engage with a diversity of contemporary communities, learn the histories of this land, look at who has and does not have access to its resources, and examine our own place, abilities, and obligations to promote a more equitable, socially just, and resilient Indiana.

1 . Non-Indigenous readers may be more familiar with Anglicized tribal names. Can you recognize Miami, Piankashaw, Potawatomi? We leave the others untranslated, to prompt curiosity.
Foreword
Jeffrey S. Dukes and Melissa Widhalm
LIVING FAR FROM THE COASTS, midwesterners might like to think we can ignore climate change. Rising seas and wetter, more powerful hurricanes seem like other people s problems. We can scroll through images of faraway wildfire damage on our smartphone screens without worrying about our own homes. But the reality is climate change poses unique challenges and opportunities for the Midwest, and we d be foolish to ignore them. As temperatures warm, Indiana and the region will experience a longer growing season, and we may be able to grow new types of plants in our gardens and farms. At the same time, though, we ll sweat through hotter and more frequent heat waves, and these heat waves will increasingly creep into spring and fall. Climate models agree that we ll see more precipitation in winter and spring, and with the warmer temperatures, less of that water will arrive as snow. That means we need to think about keeping people and property safe from future floods. We ll need to make many, many other adjustments to keep up with our changing climate.
Exactly how much change we ll need to adjust to depends on our own actions, and midwesterners have plenty of opportunities to make a difference. Climate change is happening because heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide are building up in the atmosphere. Those gases are sent aloft by people across the United States and in nations around the world, but a disproportionate fraction of those gases, and the products that release them, are produced by those of us in the middle of the country. In the Hoosier state, we have a strong manufacturing industry; for instance, we make lots of steel in northern Indiana and lots of big diesel engines in other parts of the state. How we make that steel, and how efficient we make those engines (or how quickly we transition them toward cleaner technologies) directly affects our state s climate impact.
At the same time, our actions also determine how prepared we are for the environmental changes that are heading our way. The more proactively we plan for and invest in a resilient future, the less pain we ll have later.
Flood-proofing critical infrastructure, such as hospitals, or increasing the capacity of stormwater drainage systems can save lives, livelihoods, and property from increasingly frequent heavy rainfall events. Investing in crop irrigation systems and connecting adjacent water supply systems can defend against severe drought. Redesigning cities to reduce vehicle emissions improves air quality during heatwaves, which can reduce asthma attacks. Being prepared for today s disasters changes the severity of tomorrow s climate threats.
Fortunately, we have great resources in the Midwest for understanding the nature of the challenge and for crafting better solutions. Some of our greatest resources are our universities. In Indiana, our stellar public universities, as well as outstanding private universities like Notre Dame, are working to face climate change head on. The Purdue Climate Change Research Center (PCCRC) has been focusing on the climate challenge since 2004. Indiana University s Environmental Resilience Institute (ERI) has recently put a bright spotlight on this issue, bringing relevant information to communities around the state, with a particular emphasis on ways our people, cities, and natural resource managers can build systems that are ready for the challenge that lies ahead. Our universities are working synergistically through highly collaborative initiatives such as the Indiana Climate Change Impacts Assessment (INCCIA), coordinated by the PCCRC with working group leaders at Indiana University, Notre Dame, and Purdue. INCCIA reports identify how the state s climate is expected to change, and what the implications will be for different sectors, such as health, agriculture, tourism and recreation, and aquatic ecosystems. ERI has been using the outputs of this assessment to help Indiana cities be, as their tag line says, prepared for change.
With so many changes to prepare for, the task can seem daunting. The scale of the climate challenge is unprecedented; every city around the world is being affected, as is every species on Earth. The pace of change is still accelerating. Slowing and eventually stopping climate change will require a wholesale transformation of our energy system at a time when many people still don t have sufficient access to energy. No individual or nation can solve the problem on their own. But working together, across society and across disciplines, we can find a path forward. We can work now to minimize damage from the unavoidable changes, while also minimizing the changes to come. We know enough, and have enough existing technology, to make tremendous progress immediately.
This book, Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond , complements the information provided in the INCCIA assessment, and other research activity in the state, by taking a deep dive into the human dimensions of climate change. From examining ways landscape management decisions influence climate impacts ( chaps. 3 and 4 ) to understanding public perceptions about achieving resiliency ( chap. 7 ) to recommendations for ensuring an equitable energy transition ( chap. 11 ), this book explores many pieces of the resilience puzzle and how they fit together. Throughout every chapter, we clearly see that human decisions, and the resulting positive or negative consequences on our climate, are multifaceted and complex.
Climate change presents many challenges for the Midwest, but as this book shows, it does not have to be all bad news. Preparing for climate change is achievable. It does not have to be expensive and will often offer opportuniti