blue tech and the blue commons

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


The ‘Afsluitdijk’

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Blue Commons, Shared Space1. Built Environment

1932

• improved safety• changed ecology• spurring new opportunities

2014


The new ‘Afsluitdijk’

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Blue Commons, Shared Space1. Built Environment

1932

• Improved Safety

• Restoring Ecology

• Spurring new Opportunities

2014


“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


Components of the Dutch Water Innovation Agenda

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Policy

DataSocial Benefits

Data

3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Shared Values


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


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


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



Key Enablers & Founding Partners

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Policy

Estuary & Delta

Water



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


Data

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Skygeo Disdrometrics

3. Knowledge & Innovation Blue Commons, Sharing Information


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?


Pharma & Wastewater

Water Alliance


• Collaboration

- Government- Knowledge- Businesses

• Water Technology Innovation Chain


Policy• National Delta Plan (for

water safety)• Learn to swim –

starting at age 3 • Droppie – education

for young people

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Policy Initiatives:

VP Delta Program

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Blue Commons3. Knowledge & Innovation


• Start up support• Validation• Test Campuses• Mentoring

Policy Initiatives:

Wetsus Lab

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Blue Commons3. Knowledge & Innovation


• 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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VALIDATIONRISK ASSESSMENTSAFETY PLAN / MEASURES

EDUCATIONCOMMUNICATION

AWARENESS



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


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?


By geography? along the Intertidal Zone

http://mdlmaster.learnnet.net/mod/book/view.php?id=258&chapterid=427



Or on particular aspects of water health…



Or on particular waterways?



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