Water as Leverage - Wadden Sea Region

Water as Leverage for Climate Adaptation: Wadden Sea Region
Harlingen
Call for Action
Making an integral
and innovative vision,
for and together with
the local community
1. An overarching and integrated
vision
In order to heighten the ambitions
of the many upcoming projects
in Harlingen and to diminish
possible negative external effects
of each project, an overarching and
integrated vision is needed. Taking
all challenges and ambitions into
account, this plan formulates a
future vision and forms a framework
for the many stakeholders to work
together beyond the current sectoral
approach of each initiative.
In the vision the following key
elements are to be tackled:
• Upgrade seawall/dyke;
• Replace and upgrade locks
• Water management of the
waterways to the hinterland and
discharge point
• Improving quality of tourism &
futureproof transport people and
cargo
The partners have the ambition to
set a new standard at the borders of
the Wadden Sea and aim to include
the implementation of the following 4
lines of transition:
1. Recovery biodiversity
2. Energy transition
3. Circular economy
4. Inclusive society
The vision must be made concrete in
a spatial plan fit for the future.
2. Innovative solutions for the
upcoming, concrete projects
In this integral plan, there is a need
for new innovative approaches and
solutions for the many upcoming
projects. The local experts want to
be challenged to think of different
solutions. In that way, there is a
need for capacity building inside
the project development, since
these experts will have to be the
people that support the visions
and the connected projects in the
future, from the feasibility to the
implementation phase.
Practically four or five pilot projects
need to be developed which
envisage the vision for the future.
The pilot projects need to be
integral, feasible, inclusive, and
scalable. It is crucial to develop
pilot partnerships which have the
intention and capacity to develop
and implement the projects in the
following phase.
3. Working with the local people
In order to formulate feasible,
bankable and supported solutions
for the future of Harlingen, the
local community of civilians,
stakeholders and experts should be
included in the open process. The
new knowledge and approaches
formulated in the integral plan,
should be embedded and supported
by the local community.
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Harlingen