<h1>Coastal Resilience & Adaptation Economy</h1>		
			<h1>Resilience Innovation Campus</h1>		
			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		
		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone. Coastal Virginia is more vulnerable to impacts of relative sea level rise than other locations on the East Coast. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Current options are limited—new adaptation solutions developed in Virginia will provide global commercialization opportunities. </p>		
			<h3>together for virginia</h3>		
		<p>Developing breakthrough, cost-effective adaptation solutions requires partnerships across university, industry, public, and non-profit sectors. To fully capitalize on Virginia’s innovation ecosystem and economic opportunity in resilience, we need a collaborative R&amp;D facility to:</p>		
		<p>Foster public-private collaboration and innovation</p>		
		<p>Invent new resilience and adaptation <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		
		<p>Conduct bench scale and simulation studies</p>		
		<p>Build out demonstration pilots on the existing<br />network of publicly-owned waterfront properties to validate <br />products, technologies, services, and designs</p>		
		<p>Launch adaptation and resilience businesses</p>		
			<h2>A Priority project to drive innovation</h2>		
		<p>The development of a resilience innovation R&amp;D campus has been identified as a priority in the coastal regions’ Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) and is widely supported by local and state stakeholders. A state-funded multi-stakeholder planning process identified core strengths, assets, and opportunities in a coastal resilience and adaptation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong>Action Plan </strong>based upon the conclusion that Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class resilience innovation R&amp;D campus. Virginia could lead the world in the design, construction and implementation of:</p>		
		<p>Comprehensive blue-green-gray resilience <br />and adaptation infrastructure</p>		
		<p>Carbon-encumbering, low-energy, water-managed <br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		
		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		
		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		
		<p>Building concept is for demonstration purposes only and may not represent final construction. <br />Building illustration courtesy of Clark Nexsen. </p><p>The goal is to establish long-term, public-private innovation and R&amp;D capacity. This two-prong strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunity by designing, building, and testing the next generation waterfront property for 50, 100, and 150 years.</p>		
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