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			<h2>Coastal Virginia</h2>		
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			<h2>Collaborative Research • Workforce Development • Economic Opportunities</h2>		
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			<h2>living with more water</h2>		
		<p style="text-align: center;">Number of residents living in homes exposed to major coastal flooding</p><p>Number of residential, public, and commercial buildings exposed to extreme coastal flooding</p><p style="text-align: center;">Annualized flood damages</p>		
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			<h2>local solutions, global opportunities</h2>		
		<p>The Commonwealth’s economy depends upon the resilience of its coastal zone and inland waterways. Flooding, saltwater intrusion, erosion, and other risks from climate change require new products, technologies, services, and designs to adapt buildings, businesses, and infrastructure. Virginia has a competitive advantage because it is already experiencing impacts from the highest degree of relative sea-level rise on the East Coast, years before other states. 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 opportunities, we need to leverage and expand collaborative R&amp;D capacity 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>Expand collaborative R&amp;D projects 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>Driving innovation</h2>		
		<p>The development of an adaptation and 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 water adaptation and innovation economy, including broader regional partnerships to launch this economic sector in several priority areas.</p><p>The planning process resulted in an <strong><a href="https://wateradaptationeconomy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/GoVA_ActionPlan2021_WEB.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Action Plan </a></strong>that recognized Virginia has the assets to assemble a world-class water adaptation and innovation R&amp;D facility. The Commonwealth has launched a $2.9M <strong><a href="https://vaseagrant.org/go-virginia-adaptation-economy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GO Virginia economic development initiative</a> </strong>to grow the water economy. Clearly, 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, smart-water<br />residential, commercial, and office buildings</p>		
		<p>Working waterfronts infrastructure and industrial buildings</p>		
		<p>Decentralized, rural watermanagement infrastructure</p>		
		<p>Historic and cultural resource preservation</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 strategy meets short-term, immediate needs to adapt shorelines, landscaping, buildings, and open water features. It also ensures long-term economic development opportunities by designing, building, and testing waterfront property solutions for problems experienced by the next generation.</p>		
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