KER is a Discovery unit of the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Lab™ 
The mission of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is to support Maricopa County, Arizona, by sharing knowledge, catalyzing discovery, and building solutions to catalyze change in order to build community resilience. We work to support profound and enduring change across organizations to bring resilience dividends.
The Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is committed to solving our most perplexing problems through use-inspired research that builds community resilience. This work addresses major challenges while reaping additional benefits—what we call resilience dividends—in social cohesion, economic prosperity, and environmental security. Together with our stakeholders, we are making a difference in Maricopa County by expanding our capacity to adapt, grow, and turn system-wide shocks into opportunities to thrive.
# Systems modeling
Lead: Michael Barton
The Systems Modeling focal area provides cross-cutting expertise in modeling and data science across the GFL. This expertise can improve our understanding of complex dynamics and feedbacks in coupled human and natural systems and generate scenarios for exploring alternative futures and the scalability of possible solutions to diverse challenges. An important benefit of formal modeling is that it provides transparent methods that can be validated against empirical data for representing past, present, and future human and Earth systems. Modeling is also critical to identifying workable and scalable solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals.