Gamification for Resilience

11 ReIDMPImplications, Limitations, and Opportunities

11.1 Introduction

Transforming the City of Norfolk into a resilient city is a significant undertaking, yet it remains achievable based on three strategic goals: (i) design the coastal community of the future, (ii) create economic opportunity by advancing efforts to grow existing and new industry sectors, and (iii) advance initiatives to connect communities, deconcentrate poverty, and strengthen neighborhoods. These goals are the basis for the Norfolk Resilient Strategy, or NRS (City of Norfolk 2015).

11.1.1 Goal I: Design the Coastal Community of the Future

In the face of rising sea levels, Norfolk, one of the international hubs of a global trading system, is committed to maintaining the most significant responsibility in ensuring seamless movements through its port and supporting US Navy Forces’ readiness. The City Manager’s Office of Resilience acknowledges that a physical transformation of the city is needed to sustain economic vitality and social cohesion. Over the decades, the city has worked hard to design and build several protective systems to preserve Norfolk’s coastline and keep itself safe and dry. Those constructions include seawalls, sophisticated dune landscapes, and other gray and green infrastructure types. With its success in transforming into a new kind of coastal community, Norfolk’s achievement can be used as an implementation model to demonstrate how other coastal cities around the world can learn to ...