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Blue Tech &Blue Commons
Carter Craft
Sr. Economic Officer Consulate General of
The Netherlands in New York
22 May 2017
• Distilling a Strategy
• Reclaiming Public Use & Space
• Sharing Cultural Values
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Source: Topsector Water
Many specializationsWater as “Top Sector”
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The Dutch experience in Urban Water Management
1. Built EnvironmentI. Components
II. Planning, Design and Technical services
III. Public initiatives
2. Integration and ScaleI. Across disciplines II. Over time: pilot, refinement, finance, replicate, sustain
3. Knowledge and Innovation
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“Blue Tech” Blue Commons, Shared Values
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1. Built Environment “Water Square,” Rotterdam
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The ‘Afsluitdijk’
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Blue Commons, Shared Space1. Built Environment
1932
• improved safety• changed ecology• spurring new opportunities
2014
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The new ‘Afsluitdijk’
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Blue Commons, Shared Space1. Built Environment
1932
• Improved Safety
• Restoring Ecology
• Spurring new Opportunities
2014
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“Room for the River”
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• Public infrastructure program initiated after 1993-1995 floods
• Vision of more than 100 projects44 Projects implemented
• Established value of Livingwith the Water
2. Integration & Scale Blue Commons, Shared Space
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Components of the Dutch Water Innovation Agenda
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Policy
DataSocial Benefits
Data
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Values
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Where does it apply? Think Spatially
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3. Knowledge & Innovation
Policy
Coastal & Maritime
Estuary & Delta
Water
Water and land
Blue Commons, Shared Vision
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How do we apply it? in a Systems framework
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• Solve local problems• Create public benefits• Build new capacity• Connect with new
audiences• Create new markets
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Vision
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Research, Design &Manufacturing
a living place where students and companies collaborate in an open environment & focus on new economic activity & sustainable solutions for a resilient port & city
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Vision
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Key Enablers & Founding Partners
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Policy
Estuary & Delta
Water
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Vision
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Data Where & When Someone Needs It
• Real Time availability at the Swimming Beach
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Ecospot (Handheld) EcoWatch (Fixed Position)
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Sharing Information
Paterswoldemeer, Groningen
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Data
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Skygeo Disdrometrics
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Sharing Information
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Blue Commons, Shared Values3. Knowledge & Innovation
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Figure: Scores by town in milligrams per 1,000 residents, per day
• Sewage research as policy instrument
• Regional research instead of city specific
• Role of hospitals?
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Pharma & Wastewater
Water Alliance
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• Collaboration
- Government- Knowledge- Businesses
• Water Technology Innovation Chain
3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Values
Policy• National Delta Plan (for
water safety)• Learn to swim –
starting at age 3 • Droppie – education
for young people
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3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Values
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Policy Initiatives:
VP Delta Program
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Blue Commons3. Knowledge & Innovation
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• Start up support• Validation• Test Campuses• Mentoring
Policy Initiatives:
Wetsus Lab
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Blue Commons3. Knowledge & Innovation
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• Applied research• Member- and government support• PhD student opportunities• Generates new I.P.
Policy Tool: The “City Blueprint”
1. Performance
2. Trends and pressures
3. Governance Capacity
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3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Methods
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INCIDENT
SPREAD AFTER 60 MIN
INCIDENT
SPREAD AFTER 120 MIN
VALIDATIONRISK ASSESSMENTSAFETY PLAN / MEASURES
EDUCATIONCOMMUNICATION
AWARENESS
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Education
Improve ecological health and expand the workforce in:
“marine coastal waters including coastal estuaries) that are [can be] designated under section 303(c) by a State for use for swimming, bathing, surfing, or similar water contact [and water dependent maritime activities].
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NY “Blue Tech” strategy? Based on Federal Water Pollution Control Act a/k/a “the Clean Water Act” (33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.)” of 1972
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Focus spatially? the confluence…• Lower Manhattan is
one of the most hydrodynamic and ecologically significant sites in the entire Hudson-Raritan River Estuary system.
• The salinity graph to the left demonstrates high salinity from the East River + Long Island Sound and low salinity from the Hudson River converging at the Battery.
NY “Blue Tech” strategy?
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By geography? along the Intertidal Zone
http://mdlmaster.learnnet.net/mod/book/view.php?id=258&chapterid=427
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Or on particular aspects of water health…
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Or on particular waterways?
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@NLinNY
facebook.com/NLinNewYork
Thank you and keep in touch!
Upcoming events:
• IRRC August 2017• Greenbuild 2017
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