Understanding Climate Change Resilience

How can a region reduce the effects of worsening climate change? How do communities recover after a hurricane? Being able to cover how systems respond to disturbance is becoming a critical skill for any reporter.

Systems include both humans and the natural world. One example of such a system is how we get our food – through a system called a foodshed. While some food is grown locally, for many Americans most of the vegetables they eat come from California, their winter apples come from Washington and their pork comes from Iowa, Illinois, and Minnesota. And that means many things must be connected and working properly in order to get that food to your table. Drought in Central Valley, California, a Midwestern tornado or even a regional strike by truck drivers could prevent you from getting that Cobb Salad and pulled pork sandwich for dinner.

All systems face disturbance. Some don’t fare all that well when that happens, because they are not resilient. A resilient system is able to respond to disturbance while maintaining its basic function.

In this series of four webinars, Dale and special guests will look at what creates resilience in the systems we rely upon daily, and how best to cover resilience issues:

• Intro to Resilience (Resilience 101)
• Ecological Economics (with guest)
• Resilient Cities, Resilient countrysides (with guests)
• How to write complexity

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