Environmental Resilience Institute faculty and staff co-authored a report on community resilience in Indiana to help Hoosier voters better understand key policy issues and potential solutions.
The report was produced in collaboration with the Indiana University Public Policy Institute’s Center for Civic Literacy as part of its Decision 2024: Your Voices, Your Future series. Co-authors include ERI Executive Director Gabe Filippelli, Managing Director Sarah Mincey, Assistant Director for Policy and Implementation Therese Dorau, and Assistant Director for Strategy and Engagement Bill Brown.
In the report, the authors examined the growing number of environmental, economic, health, and infrastructure challenges Hoosier communities face, finding that communities must be able to bounce back and adapt to these stressors to reduce impact over time.
That happens by addressing the ways in which communities are built, how they work with the natural environment, as well as their economies, institutional capacity, and social capacity and equity. Much of this adaptation relies on leaders within state government, local government, businesses, nonprofits, to collaborate and work with residents to find collective solutions.
