WATERgraafsmeer: Urban Transition 29 oct 2010 WATERgraafsmeer; Urban transition, water cycle and a sustainable organisation (Case 10) By: Vasco Diogo Energy & Resources Iris Pit Land use, Environment & Biodiversity Mirte van Geenen Land use, Environment & Biodiversity Daniel Wiegant International development Marieke Kessels Policy & Management Marjolein van Gelder Joint Degree Programme Jana Platau-Wagner Policy & Management Case Supervisor: Nadia Lugt, Waternet
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WATERgraafsmeer: Urban Transition29 oct 2010
WATERgraafsmeer; Urban transition, water cycle and a sustainable organisation (Case 10)
By:Vasco Diogo Energy & ResourcesIris Pit Land use, Environment & BiodiversityMirte van Geenen Land use, Environment & BiodiversityDaniel Wiegant International developmentMarieke Kessels Policy & ManagementMarjolein van Gelder Joint Degree ProgrammeJana Platau-Wagner Policy & Management
Case Supervisor: Nadia Lugt, Waternet
WATERgraafsmeer: Urban Transition29 oct 2010
Overview of presentation
Our client: Waternet and Nadia Lugt The case study Main Research Question Individual work Conclusions Bringing it all together
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Our Client
Waternet Nadia Lugt
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The Case Study
WATERgraafsmeer/Adaptable Cities The problems The gaps in knowledge &
implementation
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Main research question
What vulnerabilities can be identified in the urban water system of Watergraafsmeer?
What strategies could help steering a transition towards a sustainable urban water system in Watergraafsmeer?
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Overview individual chapters
1. Assessing Watergraafsmeer’s water system
2. Current and future outlooks on water quality in Watergraafsmeer
3. Ecological potentials for Watergraafsmeer4. Balancing ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ in
1. What is known about the water system and where are the knowledge gaps? 2. How can knowledge be improved in order to realize future options?
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Individual Work1. Vasco Diogo
Knowledge gap: integrity of the urban water system during extreme rainfall events
Recommendations: system analysis using GIS and assemble the results in a water-atlas
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Individual Work2. Iris Pit
Current and future outlooks on water quality in
Watergraafsmeer
1. What is the current state of the water quality within Watergraafsmeer and what are the main causes?2. What are the future perspectives on water quality in Watergraafsmeer?
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Individual Work1. Vasco Diogo
Assessing Watergraafsmeer’s water system
1. What is known about the urban water system and where are the knowledge gaps? 2. How can knowledge be improved in order to realize future water management options?
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Individual Work2. Iris Pit
Knowledge gap: The current management on water quality is incoherent and knowledge on future perspectives is lacking
Recommendations: Site-specific data collection to perform a data analysis.
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Individual Work3. Mirte van Geenen
Ecological potentials for Watergraafsmeer
1. What is the current state of the ecology within Watergraafsmeer and what are the vulnerabilites?2. How can we improve the resilience of Watergraafsmeer by means of ecological services?
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Individual Work3. Mirte van Geenen
Knowledge gap: incoherent knowledge and management of ecosystems in Watergraafsmeer
Recommendations: ecosystem-analysis of Watergraafsmeer and use of ecosystem services
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Individual Work4. Daniel Wiegant
Balancing ‘top down’ and ‘bottom up’ in decision-making
1. How can community-based processes contribute to an increased communal adaptiveness? 2. How can institutions fulfill a facilitating role to foster bottom-up decision-making processes?
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Individual Work4. Daniel Wiegant
Knowledge gap: How to manage large scale problem by a bottom up structure
Recommendations: stakeholder involvement to improve the quality and legitimacy of decisions, needs to happen with a participation plan that clearly states the role and input of stakeholders.
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Individual Work5. Marieke Kessels
Stakeholder analysis
1. What definitions of the “stakeholder” concept can be discerned?
2. What different approaches toward stakeholder analysis can be discerned?
3. What guidelines exist for selecting the appropriate stakeholder analysis method and how can these be applied to the case?
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Individual Work5. Marieke Kessels
Knowledge gap: Waternet has no clear goal in mind for conducting a stakeholder analysis
Recommendations: Decide on the goal and perform a stakeholder analysis that supports this goal
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Individual Work 6. Marjolein van Gelder
Raising awareness among Watergraafsmeer’s inhabitants
How can awareness of the ecological risks in Watergraafsmeer be raised at the inhabitants of the district?
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Individual Work 6. Marjolein van Gelder
Knowledge gap: Gaps in implementing and defining policy that reaches the inhabitants of Watergraafsmeer and makes them more aware
Recommendations: Raise awareness by urban planning place attachment & environmental education
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Individual Work7. Jana Platau-Wagner
Effective Stakeholder Dialogue
Which factors influence an effective stakeholder dialogue?
1. How can effectiveness be defined?2. What stakeholder dialogue tools
adhere to the chosen concept of effectiveness?
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Individual Work7. Jana Platau-Wagner
Knowledge gap: Definition of effective Stakeholder dialogue for public-private Organisation; Set of Stakeholder dialogue tools adhering to specific effectiveness
Recommendations: finish the partly executed research; use elaborated set as baseline to apply dialogue tools to varying contexts of WATERgraafsmeer
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Conclusion
What vulnerabilities in the ecological system of the Watergraafsmeer can be identified?
What elements can increase the adaptive capacity to improve the resilience of Watergraafsmeer?
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Daniel: Giving institutions a human face
Marieke: Stakeholder analysis
Jana: Effective stakeholder dialogue
Marjolein: Awareness
raising
Vision for 2030
“Water as a guiding
principle for social
cohesion”
Vasco: Assessing WATERgraafsmeer water system
Mirte: Ecological potentials for WATERgraafsmeer
Iris: Technical solutions and soil subsidence (geology)
