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Implications of climate change for managing urban green infrastructure: an Indiana, US case study

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Urban areas around the world are increasingly investing in networks of urban forests, gardens, and other forms of green infrastructure for their benefits, including enhanced livability, sustainability, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. Proactive planning for climate change requires anticipating potential climate change impacts to green infrastructure and adjusting management strategies accordingly. We apply climate change projections for the Midwest US state of Indiana to assess the possible impacts of climate change on common forms of urban green infrastructure and identify management implications. Projected changes in Indiana’s temperature and precipitation could pose numerous management challenges for urban green infrastructure, including water stress, pests, weeds, disease, invasive species, flooding, frost risk, and timing of maintenance. Meeting these challenges will involve managing for key characteristics of resilient systems (e.g., biodiversity, redundancy) as well as more specific strategies addressing particular climate changes (e.g., shifting species compositions, building soil water holding capacity). Climate change also presents opportunities to promote urban green infrastructure. Unlike human built infrastructure, green infrastructure is conducive to grassroots stewardship and governance, relieving climate change-related strains on municipal budgets. Resources for adapting urban green infrastructure to climate change are already being applied to the management of urban green infrastructure, and emerging research will enhance understanding of best management practices.

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We thank Kristin Shaw of the US Fish and Wildlife Service, Joseph Jarzen of Keep Indianapolis Beautiful, Gwen White, other stakeholders, three anonymous reviewers, and Guest Editor Jeff Dukes for feedback that improved the manuscript, and we thank Kailey Marcinkowski for graphic design work. This work was supported by Indiana University’s Prepared for Environmental Change Grand Challenges initiative and Environmental Resilience Institute.

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  1. Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Heather L Reynolds

  2. Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Heather L Reynolds & Eric Sandweiss

  3. Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, USDA Forest Service, St Paul, MN, USA

    Leslie Brandt

  4. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Burnell C Fischer & Donovan J Moxley

  5. Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Brady S Hardiman & Songlin Fei

  6. Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

    Brady S Hardiman

  7. Department of History, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Eric Sandweiss

  8. Department of Earth and Environmental Systems, Indiana State University, Terra Haute, IN, USA

    James H Speer

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Reynolds, H.L., Brandt, L., Fischer, B.C. et al. Implications of climate change for managing urban green infrastructure: an Indiana, US case study. Climatic Change 163, 1967–1984 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02617-0

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  • Indiana
  • Climate change impacts
  • Urban green infrastructure
  • Ecosystem services
  • Resilience
  • Urban forests