“Fostering sustainable water resource policies in complex and uncertain futures with semi-qualitative systems analysis and serious games” was the titel of Janina Moschner’s talk about her work in Module B at the futuresconference2024 “Futures of Natural Resources” in Turku, Finland. Janina presented the #ZuWaKo project’s approach to policy-mix scenarios to the futures studies community. She […]
“Fostering sustainable water resource policies in complex and uncertain futures with semi-qualitative systems analysis and serious games” was the titel of Janina Moschner’s talk about her work in Module B at the YWPEUR2024 on June 17, 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark. She participated in sessions on innovative practices regarding drinking water, waste water and storm water
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CIB-café #9 took place on June 6, 2024 (14:00-15:00 CET). Dr. Christian Sponagel from the University of Hohenheim gave a talk about pathways to prevent biodiversity decline in agricultural landscapes. He presented four different pathways that can be considered plausible options to reduce biodiversity decline in Germany developed with CIB and the policy recommendations to
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What water conflicts could we face in Germany? The ZuWaKo project has developed theses on the wickedness of the problem, on framing conflicts and governance conflicts in relation to future water conflicts. Janina Moschner and Hannah Kosow present three theses in a blog entry on the website of ZIRIUS at the University of Stuttgart. Read
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The third stakeholder workshop in Module B took place on 22.03.2024, this time in online format. In addition to the previous participants from agriculture, the green space office, nature conservation and water supply, this time we were also able to attract representatives from the administration. As requested by the participants in the previous workshop, we
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On 9 and 10 April 2024, the first joint water congress took place in Cottbus, organized by the Chambers of Industry and Commerce (IHKs) from Berlin-Brandenburg together with the Verein Berliner Kaufleute und Industrieller e. V. (VBKI) and the Berlin-Brandenburg regional group of the Verband kommunaler Unternehmen e. V. (VKU). Fabian Hölzlberger from the ZuWaKo
On April 8, 2024, the Research Training Group Water-People-Agriculture at the University of Hohenheim held a colloquium on World Water Day with a focus on water for peace. Janina Moschner was able to complement the international perspectives on – sometimes very acute – conflicts in water-scarce regions (Middle East, MENA) with an anticipatory and locally
On February 29, 2024, Sigrid Prehofer from ZIRIUS at the University of Stuttgart presented her work with CIB in the ReMoDigital. project. She explained the various roles that CIB can play in a multi-model ensemble and highlighted the function of CIB for sensemaking, i.e. the interpretation and synthesis of modeling results.
How can we anticipate and possibly avoid future water conflicts by using serious games? To what extent should complexity be mapped or simplified? How can we deal appropriately with the uncertainty of future developments and the at times limited data situation, e.g. on water consumption and availability? These questions were addressed by the partners of
What did ZuWaKo take away from this year’s drinking water colloquium on February 15, 2024 in Stuttgart? Water availability in Baden Württemberg is currently looking quite good again. Nevertheless, adapting to possible future peak demands and simultaneous resource shortages (at least in terms of time and/or location) was a major topic at yesterday’s 36th Drinking
