Knowledge Exchange for Resilience
Annual Report
2019
Share. Discover. Solve. Table of Contents 1
Director’s welcome
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Youth engagement
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Mission and words from President Michael M. Crow
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Research publications
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Celebration for Resilience
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In the news
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Resilience fellows
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Leadership and core team
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Featured projects
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Sponsors and knowledge partners
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Partnerships for data-driven community resilience
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Crosscutting scholars
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Signature events
Director’s Welcome A year of discovering opportunities for resilience dividends When the recession hit in 2008, it manifested itself in a housing collapse in the Valley that tested the resilience of nearly every community. “Upside down” in their mortgages, neighbors left overnight. Houses were abandoned. Communities faced holes in them that took years to fill. The collapse tore at the social fabric of nearly every Maricopa County community. All communities experience stresses. They can be sudden shocks (like floods and earthquakes) or they can be long-term, constant stresses. In each instance, how well the community survives the stress or shock — through proactive planning, nimble actions and openness to evolution — and how quickly it can bounce back is a measure of its resilience. Now, thanks to the vision and generosity of the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, we have fully launched the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience at Arizona State University, and completed our first year of action. We have been working to build community resilience by partnering with and studying the community up close, finding the gaps and vulnerabilities that exist in our community infrastructure to respond to various kinds of shocks and stresses. By embedding in the communities of Maricopa County and tapping the expertise of research scientists, citizen scientists, community members and partner organizations, KER is designed to become a community resource destined to collectively address pressing issues and needs, fostering positive change and building resilience — in innovative ways. There really has never been anything like this for social systems. We are geared toward learning about people and their lives and turning that information into something that can be used by municipalities, private companies, NGOs and other agencies to improve the lives of the people who are living here. To do this, our team brings together representatives from all sectors to identify and focus on the vulnerabilities of the community. A unique power of the KER model resides within the “knowledge exchange.” As you will read in this annual report, our efforts have centered on the opportunity for community organizations to be partners in every stage of the research — from identifying issues to data collection, decision making and implementation. The combination of information, knowledge, diverse viewpoints and open discussion is expected to enhance the collective ability to
make informed decisions and plan for the community’s future. A central concept that has come to guide us to put in place the knowledge infrastructure and exchange mechanisms necessary to accomplish this lofty goal is the concept of Resilience Dividends. In our first Celebration for Resilience, we were able to engage with a leading figure promoting that concept, Dr. Judith Rodin. She defines them as follows: “Resilience Dividends: Building resilience creates two aspects of benefits: it enables individuals, communities, and organizations to better withstand a disruption more effectively, and it enables them to improve their current systems and situations. But it also enables them to build new relationships, take on new endeavors and initiatives, and reach out for new opportunities, ones that may never have been imagined before. This is the resilience dividend.” — Dr. Judith Rodin, Author, The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong
The end result of these partnerships and data activities will be to build capacity across Maricopa County and within ASU to be one of the leading hubs for data-driven resilience action. In the pages of this annual report, we encourage you to learn about this inaugural year’s efforts to build and launch this vision. While we recognize that this process will be a long term endeavor, fraught with challenges, what we have learned so far from our first full year of community engagement and setting the stage gives us a profound sense of hope. We are grateful to all of our staff and partners, within ASU and across the public, private and nonprofit sectors, for helping us to launch these efforts to share, discover and solve.
Elizabeth Wentz Director and Principal Investigator wentz@asu.edu
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Our Mission The mission of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is to support Maricopa County, Arizona, by sharing knowledge, catalyzing discovery, and exchanging responses to challenges together in order to build community resilience. We work to advance social cohesion, promote economic prosperity, and enhance environmental security to create profound and enduring change that brings resilience dividends.
“The tremendous outcome of this initiative is that it is a people-focused, quality-of-life-focused, Maricopa County-focused resilience center that we think will be transformational.” — M ICHAE L M. CROW, ASU PR ESI DE NT
“Piper Trust has been supporting ASU for nearly 20 years. This grant is another example of how much confidence we have in the university and what it can do to strengthen our community.” — MARY JAN E RYN D, PR ESI DE NT & CEO, VI RG I N IA G. PI PE R CHAR ITAB LE TR UST
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Celebration for Resilience Commemorating past achievements and future initiatives as a model for how to adapt. Gathering a room full of nearly 300 people passionate about community change and resilience is always exciting. Throw in a beautiful location like the Desert Botanical Garden and you have the recipe for an unforgettable night. The 2019 Celebration for Resilience featured a keynote address by Dr. Judith Rodin, author of the book The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong, poster presentations by the 2019 Resilience Fellows, and the ceremony for the inaugural Resilience Prize to the city of Scottsdale’s Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt. Rodin’s address highlighted five characteristics of resilient communities — aware, diverse, integrated, self-regulating, and adaptive — which were used as inspiration when developing the Resilience Prize awarded to the City of Scottsdale.
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2019 Celebration for Resilience Attendance Breakdown ASU Nonprofit
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“ASU has the power to be a great agent of change and must serve as a model of civic engagement for students and its neighbors... in today’s dizzyingly complex world, universities have a tendency to isolate everyone in their ivory towers. Over the past decades, a host of universities like ASU have breathed new life into their communities.” — DR. J U DITH RODI N, AUTHOR, TH E R ESI LI E NCE DIVI DE N D: BE I NG STRONG I N A WOR LD WH E R E TH I NGS GO WRONG
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Resilience Prize Scottsdale’s Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt exemplifies the resilience dividend. Our inaugural Resilience Prize was awarded to the City of Scottsdale for taking purposeful action to improve community resilience in Maricopa County by creating the Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt. In the 1960s, the City of Scottsdale was aware that it needed to tackle an age-old flooding problem. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suggested building a concrete channel. However, the residents of Scottsdale had a different idea. With diverse groups coming together and city planning director Bill Walton leading the effort, they were able to implement a creative solution. Today, the Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt is an 11-mile oasis in the heart of Scottsdale. The greenbelt’s primary function is as an efficient flood-control system, but the innovative design also provides beautiful outdoor space to city residents. “You can relax, you can take a nap, you can jog, you can do almost anything on the greenbelt,” says Walton.
“It is really time to highlight this greenbelt and the ways in which a community can come together for decision making that has a positive impact in so many different ways.” — E LIZAB ETH WE NTZ, DI R ECTOR, KNOWLE DG E EXCHANG E FOR R ESI LI E NCE
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We are honored to recognize the City of Scottsdale with the inaugural Resilience Prize. The Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt is a special place because, for many residents, the ‘dividends’ are its raison d’être — what better way to celebrate.
“It’s been wonderful to have the Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt seen as such a positive asset for our city and to be recognized with this inaugural award; we are very proud to receive it.” — W.J. “J I M” LAN E, MAYOR OF SCOTTSDALE, AR IZONA
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Resilience Fellows New program helps emerging resilience leaders build capacity and connections. This year, twelve Resilience Fellows embarked on a year-long program that brought academic and community leaders together to share knowledge, conduct research, and develop solutions for vulnerabilities in their communities and throughout the county. Working closely with community stakeholders — and each other — on a diverse array of issues, these fellows helped advance social cohesion, promote economic prosperity, and enhance environmental security. During their time as fellows, the relationships and skills this cohort developed allowed them to catapult community impact and systems improvement. As Alumni, they will be positioned to continue creating profound and enduring change that brings resilience dividends to their organizations, the university and Maricopa County as a whole. Learn more about the program at https://resilience.asu.edu/fellowships
Adonias Arevalo Valley of the Sun United Way How can we break the cycle of homelessness and incarceration with a combination of data, social services, and law enforcement? https://resilience.asu.edu/arevalo-project Arevalo interviewed individuals with lived experience of incarceration and homelessness to inform the creation of an interactive public art exhibit, a pilot program for formerly incarcerated individuals and a database on how to decrease prison reentry from those who have experienced homelessness. David Hondula ASU School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning How can using real-time indoor heat sensors prevent heat deaths? https://resilience.asu.edu/hondula-project
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Concerned by the recent rise in indoor heat-related morbidity, Hondula examined the possibility of using indoor heat sensors to send real-time updates to residents’ family, neighbors, and the health department. This solution enables action at the level of individuals, allowing resources to be focused where they are most needed.
Edmund Williams Lehr Innovations, LLC How can backyard gardens help fight against food insecurity? https://resilience.asu.edu/williams-project Williams developed and tested a new ecologically-inspired urban agriculture system he calls a LEHR garden. His findings suggest that it has the potential to be two to three times more productive than other intensive agriculture techniques. Because these gardens are also low-maintenance, they could improve food security across the city by fostering a more distributed urban food system.
Hyunsung Oh ASU School of Social Work How does the social network of a sick patient affect their quality of life? https://resilience.asu.edu/oh-project Oh modeled the impacts of social networks — specifically community trust in health professionals and willingness to discuss health with loved ones — on chronic illness management among low-income seniors and people with disabilities. His findings suggest how network-based interventions can address disparities in chronic illness. Jayson Matthews Valley of the Sun United Way How could real-time data collection improve delivery of integrated human services? https://resilience.asu.edu/matthews-project
Informed by interviews with nonprofits, academic units and community members, Matthews designed workshops and a toolkit on data collection and use. His work is helping put the
community at the center of real-time data collection to improve integrated aid on health, housing, and food. Jennifer Vanos ASU School of Sustainability Do kids enjoy more equitable learning opportunities when playgrounds are cooler and healthier? https://resilience.asu.edu/vanos-project Vanos worked with Paideia Academies in South Phoenix to redesign two playspaces to become natural play and learning environments that reduce students’ exposure to heat and air pollution. Her ongoing research could shift the paradigm of playground design to improve health usability, reduce harmful exposures, and advance health equity and resilience. Krickette Wetherington Valley of the Sun United Way What do we need to better understand about homelessness and race? https://resilience.asu.edu/wetherington-project
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Since race is currently a better predictor of homelessness than poverty, Wetherington developed a racial equity framework and training for system administrators, service providers and funders. She also explored alternative assessment methods to complement mainstream prioritization tools, helping them more equitably allocate housing resources. Matthew Toro ASU Library Where can we build resilience on our streets? https://resilience.asu.edu/toro-project Maricopa County suffers from a major public safety crisis for pedestrians, reducing residents’ ability to access the resources they need. Toro mapped pedestrian crash incidents through the county alongside sociodemographic and land use data, allowing decision-makers to more effectively target design and policy interventions to make our streets safer for all commuters. Nathan Smith Phoenix Rescue Mission How can we improve food security by redesigning distribution solutions? https://resilience.asu.edu/smith-project Smith studied the local food system to design a program for his organization that leverages its relationships to other organizations to foster local food security. In addition to strengthening existing food distribution programs, he also explored the development of skills training programs to help individuals become more self-sufficient. Sandra Price ASU School of Community Resources and Development How can we remove barriers to better university-community collaborations? https://resilience.asu.edu/price-project Surprised by stories of poor relationships between university researchers and the local community, Price set about identifying the barriers to effective university-community collaboration. She then developed a workshop to be held before the 2020 Social Embeddedness Conference to discuss the challenge with members of the ASU community.
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Sara Meerow ASU School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning What are the co-benefits of multifunctional green infrastructure in arid cities? https://resilience.asu.edu/meerow-project Meerow synthesized the current state of knowledge on four resilience co-benefits of green infrastructure in a desert city — stormwater management, cooling, and improved air and water quality. She then used this information to develop a spatial model for prioritizing areas in Phoenix for green infrastructure. Shelley Morgan State of Arizona Department of Economic Security Will a Percentage of Income Payment Plan help save lives? https://resilience.asu.edu/morgan-project When households turn off their A/C in summer to save on energy costs, it puts them at risk for heat related death and illness. Morgan explored the possibility of leveraging existing national funding toward a Percentage of Income Payment Plan to mitigate energy costs for households at 75–125% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines, a group that is increasingly seeking assistance.
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Academic Fellow Jennifer Vanos Designing natural playspaces for cooler, safer, more equitable schools. Many Maricopa County schools — particularly those in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color — sit in heat islands, a sea of dark pavement on all sides. As temperatures rise and cities grow, the plastic and metal play structures that dominate their schoolyards offer students little protection from heat, UV, and air pollution. Jenni Vanos, an assistant professor at ASU’s School of Sustainability, envisions a new type of urban playground — one made up of trees, hills, tunnels, and gardens, full of learning opportunities for curious children to discover. “There’s a lot of benefits to bringing natural spaces into urban areas in addition to the different types of learning opportunities this type of space can provide,” she says. During her fellowship, she partnered with Paideia Academies in South Phoenix to collect baseline data on air quality, heat, and UV and to begin designing two new playspaces. “We also spent a lot of time just relationship-building with the school, with the teachers, with the kids, with the school director,” says Vanos.
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She and her partners worked across disciplines and sectors to ensure that their designs fit the needs of the scholars and incorporated local environmental knowledge. Their designs also drew from the expertise of another fellow in Vanos’s cohort, Edmund Williams. Williams will break ground on a LEHR garden, a regenerative agriculture system of his own design, at Paideia this winter. As they continue transforming the school’s outdoor spaces, Vanos and her team hope to provide a roadmap for other schools to follow: “We want to document what that shift looks like from so many different angles and then be able to use this pilot project demonstration for other schools to say, ‘Oh that’s possible? You can do that?’” Ultimately, she envisions schools of the future serving as hubs of community resilience. “If we can find the right methods to be able to make these spaces more shared throughout the day and year, it can have such a big impact on the community, especially if there’s not many parks or playspaces around,” says Vanos.
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Community Fellow Nate Smith Fostering food security by building relationships and empowering systems for self-sufficiency. Phoenix Rescue Mission estimates that 18,000 people in Maricopa County are homeless and one in three Arizona children faces hunger. These are realities that push Nate Smith in his role as the community impact director for Phoenix Rescue Mission. Smith’s fellowship project focused on strengthening his organization’s food distribution programs to better meet the basic needs of people facing food insecurity. He also explored the potential of teaching tangible skills to help them become more self-sufficient. “No matter what kind of crisis we go through as people, we always need access to food,” says Smith. By studying the local food system — from production to distribution — Smith created a business plan to provide Phoenix Rescue Mission with a program design that leverages its resources and its relationships to other organizations to foster food security. The program allowed for the fellows to work collectively, share knowledge, and exchange ideas. This included allowing Nate to connect with colleagues working at Valley of the Sun United Way, ASU Library, and more. Smith’s time as a fellow helped him to broaden his understanding of food-system models. His new food-system model is founded on the understanding that resilient communities also need resilient community resources centers.
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But his model looks to move beyond providing food to community members in need. “We are focused on meeting basic needs and empowering them beyond that — workforce development programming, GED classes, etc.,” says Smith. His ultimate goal is to provide a resource and platform to help individuals become self-sufficient. Looking back at his time as a fellow, Smith says: “It gave me an opportunity to step back from the day-to-day and do some real research, to look at evidence-based practice and figure out how to be strategic going forward.”
“It gave me an opportunity to step back from the day-to-day and do some real research, to look at evidence-based practice and figure out how to be strategic going forward.” After completing his fellowship, Smith is leading Phoenix Rescue Mission to become a thought leader in building a more resilient food model and plans to continue working on research with the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience.
Phoenix Rescue Mission is among the community organizations serving the estimated 18,000 people in Maricopa County experiencing homelessness and the one in three Arizona children facing hunger.
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Partnership Highlight ASU Library and Crisis Response Network Combining innovative data analysis and partner engagement to empower service providers supporting families experiencing homelessness in Maricopa County. In a resilient community, periods of lack of shelter — whether experienced by students, families, veterans, elderly or others — are infrequent and nonrecurring. In partnership with ASU Library and Crisis Response Network’s Homeless Management Information System (HMIS), KER helped to identify new data patterns that could give rise to solutions for individuals experiencing long-term or recurring homelessness.
The work has provided the initial framework for a predictive risk model that allows service providers to better design interventions for the different pathways individuals take through the continuum of care, based on patterns of vulnerability.
Data experts from our organizations worked together to harness the power of data within the HMIS system, using machine learning analysis and visualization.
“One big a-ha from this process was that we’re able to understand this group of people by the services they use rather than their demographic characteristics,” says Simeone. “And we were able to see crosscutting trends across demographic groups that weren’t obvious before.
“From my own experience, it’s important to reflect on how people experiencing housing insecurity are homogenized,” says Michael Simeone, director of Data Science and Analytics for ASU Library. “It’s important to see that experiences of housing insecurity and homelessness are different for different people. And data can help us with that.” 18
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“Another big takeaway was that any person’s usage of services could predict their risk for falling back into housing insecurity.”
KER fellow Krickette Wetherington of the Valley of the Sun United Way has been working with our team to strategically convene stakeholders across the continuum of care in ASU’s Decision Theater. This monthly series of data convenings engaged additional ASU data analysts and human service professionals in exploring and interpreting the results from this research. “In these convenings, we started having cross-sector conversations about what actually matters rather than just the indicators measured in HMIS,” says Wetherington. “We hadn’t been talking as a community about things like race, income, incarceration — about what’s causing people to move through the system in the ways that they do.”
The partnership has created not only insights on issues of equitable service provision and the programmatic context individuals experiencing homelessness encounter, but also interactive data tools that can help us predict from service usage patterns who is most at risk of returning to homelessness.
“It’s important to see that experiences of housing insecurity and homelessness are different for different people. And data can help us with that.” — M ICHAE L SI M EON E, DI R ECTOR OF DATA SCI E NCE AN D ANALYTICS, ASU LI B RARY
“This was a big challenge to start with, but we were able to change the direction of the ship,” says Wetherington. In 2020, Simeone and Crisis Response Network’s Thaddaeus Gassie will join KER as resilience fellows to continue and deepen this work. In addition, Wetherington will join ASU’s newly launched Action Nexus initiative within Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions.
Michael Simeone ASU Library
Ty Rosensteel Crisis Response Network
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Signature Events
Hunch Lunch: youth building resilience through places of play and learning
food production, access, distribution, needs, food deserts, nutrition, and community health.
Each year, we gather community members to share their “hunches” about community resilience — the first step in exchanging knowledge and developing partnerships. Young people not only represent the future leaders of community resilience in Maricopa County, they can also be seen as important critical actors today, in their own right, for the community as a whole to improve resilience. Speakers reflected on the role young people have to play in building social cohesion and developing solutions.
Hunch Lunch: food security Our second Hunch Lunch of the year convened a conversation around food security in Maricopa County. As participants shared a meal together, they also shared ideas — in the form of flash talks and discussions — on the intersecting issues of
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Symposium: Planetary Management. as Agents of Change This event, hosted by the Global Futures Initiative and the Human Factors Collaborative (HFC), brought together humanists and social scientists to discuss the role of human agency in addressing the challenges that lie ahead of us. The two-day conversation sought to identify new interdisciplinary approaches to questions of sustainable and equitable futures. As a member of the HFC, KER organized six interactive exhibits on the built environment for the symposium, which also included a poetry reading; keynote lecture; and panels on topics including water and health, migration, and the power of stories. During the event, the Decision Theater showcased their mobile theater, visualizing our joint community data efforts.
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Youth Engagement Sports Leadership camp empowers youth to create more connected communities. Resilience relies on social cohesion, yet modern communities are highly segregated. Youth are particularly isolated from one another. One way that communities of diverse backgrounds still come together is through sport. This summer, the Global Sport Institute (GSI) partnered with KER and Valley of the Sun United Way to pilot a sports leadership camp for high school students at Academia del Pueblo in Phoenix, where a disproportionate share of students experience homelessness. The three-week program taught students about different career paths in sport beyond being an athlete — fields like coaching, marketing, officiating, conditioning and commentating. “By raising their awareness in other ways to be connected in the world of sport, it opens up multiple avenues and places of focus,” says Scott Brooks, research director for GSI. “It’s not ‘I make it or I don’t,’ but instead it’s: ‘Oh! There’s a lot of different things I can do when it comes to sport.’” Undergraduate participants also got on-the-job training by organizing sports clinics for middle school peers.
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“We could see this developing into something bigger, where we would take on not just one sport, but 2-3 sports and help run their leagues,” adds Brooks. “The kids participating in the program would run the marketing for it, go out to find local sponsors, keep track of scoring, create newsletters and really take true ownership.” This pilot demonstrated that connecting youth of various ages and empowering them to organize their own communities around sport has the potential to increase social cohesion among future generations. “Increasingly, more and more kids see this world as daunting and they don’t know where they fit,” says Brooks. “They want to make a difference but they don’t know how. This program can provide them with an avenue of learning about themselves, learning what it will take to be successful, and they’re given a place where they can make an impact. “When they get this type of regular reinforcement that they are making a difference, they feel connected to something bigger than themselves.”
Scott Brooks ASU Global Sport Institute
“Increasingly, more and more kids see this world as daunting and they don’t know where they fit.” Photos courtesy of Grace Valandra
— SCOTT B ROOKS, ASU G LOBAL SPORT I NSTITUTE
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Research Publications Below is a list of the published articles and book chapters that address relevant topics related to community resilience in Maricopa County, and around the world. The following bibliography reflects direct contributions by students, fellows, and partners of KER.
Andrade, R., Larson, K. L., Hondula, D. M., & Franklin, A. 2019. Social–Spatial Analyses of Attitudes toward the Desert in a Southwestern U.S. City. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. https://doi.org/10.1080/2469 4452.2019.1580498 Brovelli, Maria Antonia, Marisa Ponte, Sven Shade, and Patricia Solís. 2019. Citizen Science in Support of Digital Earth. In Manual of Digital Earth, Huadong Guo, Michael Goodchild, and Alessandro Annoni (Editors). International Society for Digital Earth. Springer, Singapore, pp. 593-622. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-32-9915-3 Burnsilver, S., & Magdanz, J. 2019. Heterogeneity in mixed economies Implications for sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Hunter Gatherer Research, 3(4), 601-633. https://doi. org/10.3828/hgr.2017.31 Gilrein, E. J., Carvalhaes, T. M., Markolf, S. A., Chester, M. V., Allenby, B. R., & Garcia, M. 2019. Concepts and practices for transforming infrastructure from rigid to adaptable. Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure. https:// doi.org/10.1080/23789689.2019.1599608 Green, H., Bailey, J., Schwarz, L., Vanos, J., Ebi, K., & Benmarhnia, T. 2019. Impact of heat on mortality and morbidity in low and middle income countries: A review of the epidemiological evidence and considerations for future research. Environmental Research, 171, 80-91. https://doi. org/10.1016/j.envres.2019.01.010 Guyer, H. E., Putnam, H. F., Roach, M., Iñiguez, P., & Hondula, D. M. 2019. Cross-sector management of extreme heat risks in Arizona. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100(3), ES101-ES104. https://doi.org/10.1175/ BAMS-D-18-0183.1 Hondula, D., Sabo, J., Quay, R., Chester, M., Georgescu, M., Grimm, N., Harlan, S., Middel, A., Porter, S., Redman,
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C., Rittmann, B., Ruddell, B. L., & White, D. 2019. Cities of the Southwest are testbeds for urban resilience. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 17(2), 79-80. https://doi. org/10.1002/fee.2005 Lopez, Steven and Lora A. Phillips. 2019. “Unemployed: White Collar Job Searching after the Great Recession.” Work and Occupations 46(4): 470-510. https://doi. org/10.1177/0730888419852379 Markolf, S. A., Hoehne, C., Fraser, A., Chester, M., & Underwood, B. S. 2019. Transportation resilience to climate change and extreme weather events – Beyond risk and robustness. Transport Policy, 74, 174-186. https://doi. org/10.1016/j.tranpol.2018.11.003 Meerow, S., Pajouhesh, P., & Miller, T. R. 2019. Social equity in urban resilience planning. Local Environment, 24(9), 793-808. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2019 .1645103 Olsen, H., Kennedy, E., & Vanos, J. 2019. Shade provision in public playgrounds for thermal safety and sun protection: A case study across 100 play spaces in the United States. Landscape and Urban Planning, 189, 200-211. https://doi. org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.04.003 Park, C. H., & Johnston, E. 2019. Determinants of collaboration between digital volunteer networks and formal response organizations in catastrophic disasters. International Journal of Organization Theory and Behavior, 22(2), 155-173. https://doi.org/10.1108/ IJOTB-07-2018-0088 Park, C. H., & Johnston, E. W. 2019. Intentionally building relationships between participatory online groups and formal organisations for effective emergency response. Disasters, 43(3), 634-657. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12354
Restifo, Salvatore J., Vincent J. Roscigno, and Lora A. Phillips. 2019. “Racial/Ethnic Hierarchy & Urban Labor Market Inequality: Four Poignant Historical Cases.” City & Community 18(2): 662-688. https://doi.org/10.1111/ cico.12389 de Sherbinin, A., Bukvic, A., Rohat, G., Gall, M., McCusker, B., Preston, B., Apotsos, A., Fish, C., Kienberger, S., Muhonda, P., Wilhelmi, O., Macharia, D., Shubert, W., Sliuzas, R., Tomaszewski, B., & Zhang, S. 2019. Climate vulnerability mapping: A systematic review and future prospects. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 10(5), [e600]. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.600 Simone Athayde, Mason Mathews, Stephanie Bohlman, Walterlina Brasil, Carolina RC Doria, Jynessa DutkaGianelli, Philip M Fearnside, Bette Loiselle, Elineide E Marques, Theodore S Melis, Brent Millikan, Evandro M Moretto, Anthony Oliver-Smith, Amintas Rossete, Raffaele Vacca, and David Kaplan. 2019. Mapping Research on Hydropower and Sustainability in the Brazilian Amazon: Advances, Gaps in Knowledge and Future Directions. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 37:50–69. Solís, Patricia and Pat DeLucia. 2019. Exploring the impact of contextual information on student performance and interest in open humanitarian mapping. Professional Geographer 71(3):523-535. DOI: 10.1080/00330124.2018.1559655 Vanos, J., Vecellio, D. J., & Kjellstrom, T. 2019. Workplace heat exposure, health protection, and economic impacts: A case study in Canada. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 62(12), 1024-1037. https://doi.org/10.1002/ ajim.22966
Warren, Stacy, Trevor M. Harris, Michael F. Goodchild, and Patricia Solís. 2019. Commentaries on “Evaluating the Geographic in GIS.” (Who is putting whose Geography into whose GIS, and how? Solís). Geographical Review. DOI: 10.1111/gere.12359
“Knowledge and insights contributed by our community partners are critical to advancing academic disciplines, in ways that go beyond applied science. For this reason, some of our published work includes nontraditional co-authors — our collaborators working in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors who we consider an essential part of the knowledge team.”
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Wang, C., Li, Y., Myint, S. W., Zhao, Q., & Wentz, E. A. 2019. Impacts of spatial clustering of urban land cover on land surface temperature across Köppen climate zones in the contiguous United States. Landscape and Urban Planning, 192, 103668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. landurbplan.2019.103668 Wang, H., Lu, Y., Shutters, S., Steptoe, M., Wang, F., Landis, S., & Maciejewski, R. (2019). A visual analytics framework for spatiotemporal trade network analysis. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 25(1), 331-341. [8440040]. https://doi.org/10.1109/ TVCG.2018.2864844
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In the news National
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New York Times As Phoenix Heats Up, the Night Comes Alive
ASU News New ASU fellowship program addresses urban equity through geographic perspectives
Local AZ Central Intensifying heat is testing Metro Phoenix AZ PBS ASU Knowledge Exchange for Resilience helping Maricopa County residents
ASU News ASU scholars honored with lifetime titles as American Association of Geographers fellows
Scottsdale Independent Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt awarded 2019 Resilience Prize
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Scottsdale Progress Indian Bend Wash awarded for its resilience
New ASU fellowship program addresses urban equity through geographic perspectives
Scottsdale Independent Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt awarded 2019 Resilience Prize “Resilience is about designing, planning, and adapting — we know a lot about what might happen in the future but we don’t know everything. Community resilience is about being aware so that we can respond quickly as the world changes.” — PATR ICIA SOLIS, EXECUTIVE DI R ECTOR, KNOWLE DG E EXCHANG E FOR R ESI LI E NCE
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ASU News ‘Celebration for Resilience’ commemorates the past, present and future vitality of Maricopa County
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“This program helped me understand equity issues in the community and to look at the problem from different views to find an optimal solution.” — AB DU LRAH MAN ‘AL’ ALSANAD, G IS TECH N ICIAN, KNOWLE DG E EXCHANG E FOR R ESI LI E NCE
Our Team Leadership and Administration
Brajesh Karna Data Manager
Elizabeth Wentz Director and Principal Investigator
Chelsea Dickson Project Manager, Liaison to the Decision Theater
Patricia Solís Executive Director
Ashley Funneman Data Research Aide
Mara DeFilippis Strategic Partnership Manager
Nayan Khare Data Research Aide
Susana Bustillos Assistant to the Executive Director
Nisha Ravikesavan Data Research Aide
Marcia Nation Evaluator
Srinivas Vallabhaneni Data Research Aide
Michael Quinn Patton External Evaluation Consultant
Katsiaryna “Kate” Varfalameyeva Management Intern
Faculty, Staff and Students Melissa Guardaro Assistant Research Professor Mason Mathews Assistant Research Professor Sarbeswar Praharaj Assistant Research Professor Lora Phillips Postdoctoral Research Scholar Chuyuan “Carter” Wang Assistant Research Professor Crystal Alvarez Communications Manager Lillian Ruelas Events Coordinator
Shauna BurnSilver School of Human Evolution and Social Change Erik Johnston School for the Future of Innovation in Society Lindsey Beagley University Initiatives
Alexandria Drake Graduate Research Assistant Elisha Charley Graduate Research Assistant Lily Villa Graduate Research Assistant Carlos Aguiar Hernandez Data Analytics Research Aide Abdulrahman “Al” Alsanad GIS Student Technician Vivian Arriaga Mapping for Resilience Undergraduate Intern and YouthMappers Research Aide
Crosscutting Scholars
Data Impact Award Recipient Nominated for leveraging the existing strengths of academic, nonprofit, business and government organizations to improve social, economic and environmental resilience in our community, KER was honored to receive a Data Passion Team Award from ASU’s University Technology Office during their 2019 Data Conference.
Shade Shutters Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity and Decision Theater
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Funders and Knowledge Partners Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust The ASU Knowledge Exchange for Resilience is supported by Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust. Piper Trust supports organizations that enrich health, well-being, and opportunity for the people of Maricopa County, Arizona.
Funding support also received from:
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Schmidt Futures
School of Sustainability
National Science Foundation
Center for Smart Cities and Regions
The Nature Conservancy
AZCEND Center for the Future of Arizona City of Mesa City of Scottsdale
University City Exchange City of Surprise TenAcross 10X
ASU Academic Unit Partners Barrett, The Honors College*
Arizona Department of Economic Security Greater Phoenix Economic Council
YouthMappers* Heliosun*
Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication
ADVANCE*
Decision Theater*
ASU Foundation for A New American University*
Maricopa Association of Governments*
Office of Presidential Initiatives OKED Broader Impacts Group
Maricopa County Public Health Department*
ASU Geospatial Research and Solutions*
Phoenix Rescue Mission
Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering Global Sport Institute* Healthy Urban Environments*
Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
Salvation Army
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
Community Partners
Morrison Institute for Public Policy*
Crisis Response Network*
Wildfire*
School for the Future of Innovation in Society
APS
MesaCAN
Arizona Association of Manufactured Home, RV and Park Model Owners
* indicates shared resources, data, agendas, or personnel
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning*
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Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
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Valley of the Sun United Way
Crosscutting Scholars Our four cross-cutting scholars support the evidence-based design of KER as a transformative initiative. Each one undertakes a specific design question around building community resilience. Together, they are designing a “Resilience Playbook” that will help guide communities to implement these concepts. Shade Shutters, Research Scientist Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity and Decision Theater
Erik Johnston, Professor School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Shauna BurnSilver, Professor School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Lindsey Beagley, Director of Social Embeddedness Office of University Initiatives
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About the Cover Artist Abby Johnson From a young age, Abby has used art and storytelling as a tool to create change, from drawing anti-poaching posters to hang in her childhood bedroom to organizing a community project to paint and install recycling bins in local parks. In college she cemented her relationship with the camera as her instrument of choice, graduating from Penn State University with degrees in photojournalism and anthropology. In 2015 Abby moved to Tempe to pursue a master’s degree in Sustainability Solutions. During her studies, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo and created a short-form documentary about one Togolese artisan’s efforts to empower youth in his community. These experiences have made her a firm believer in the power of solutions-oriented stories to inspire transformation. Having studied Scottsdale’s Indian Bend Wash during her time at ASU, Abby has long admired the greenbelt as an example of proactive design, community action and resilient infrastructure. It was a source of inspiration when she felt overwhelmed or hopeless. She was honored to illustrate this innovative park and to help bring its story to a wider audience. You can see more of her work at abbyjohnsonfilms.com.
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