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What options for action do the various irrigation stakeholders have in the future and how do these strategies, measures and instruments relate to each other? How can the ZuWaKo simulation game be used to bring together stakeholders from different sectors to better understand the complex interplay of contexts and policies and ultimately select the most […]

On 23.11.23, Fabian Hölzlberger PhD student from the ZuWaKo team was able to attend a meeting of the Lusatia Round Table, a cross-state municipal alliance to tackle the many challenges associated with structural change in Lusatia. Following a keynote speech by Mr. Carsten Schneider, Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany, there

The Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG) hosted the Climate Status Colloquium in Dresden on November 23, 2023. A welcome address by State Secretary Dr. Gerd Lippold from the State Ministry for Energy, Climate Protection, Environment and Agriculture (SMEKUL) was followed by a lively panel discussion on the Federal Climate Adaptation Act.

On November 11, 2023, Dr. Davi Francois, Angela Ciotola and Dr. Witold-Roger Poganietz from KIT ITAS presented their work with CIB on context energy scenarios considering disruptive events for the RESUR project: “CIB Multilayer Analysis of the German energy system under the influence of disruptive events”. Their ideas on how to use multi-layer CIB, linking

The Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG) hosted an expert discussion on agricultural water protection in Löbtau on November 9, 2023. The wide range of expert contributions covered topics such as dealing with drought and the use of pesticides as well as a review of the achievements of recent years in the

The lignite phase-out in Germany will make it necessary to backfill or flood the mines in the future. Such flooding is a controversial project, with diverse interests and uncertain feasibility. Where will the water come from?- And where is it missing then? What are the effects of flooding on the environment? What conflicts of interest

We presented the ZuWaKo project at the German Congress of Geography 2023 (DKG’23), September 20 to 22, 2023 in Frankfurt a. M. The title of our presentation was: Future water conflicts in Germany: Participatory modeling and simulation games to deal with uncertainty and complexity. The session “Water: A Conflict Potential of the Future“ was chaired

On September 14, 2023, (2-3 pm. CEST), Vanessa Bolivar, PhD student at KIT ITAS has presented her work with CIB at the ZuWaKo CIB-Café. She talked about “Key factors and scenarios for transformation towards a circular water-waste-energy system in the urban built environment in Chile” . Vanessa Bolivar has been working with CIB to develop

Which context developments will influence the irrigation situation in the future? What are the goals of the different actors and how do these goals relate to each other? These questions were the focus of a multi-stakeholder workshop in moduel B irrigation conflicts, which took place in the small council hall of  the Heilbronn town hall

Left to right: Simon Brauner (module A), Hannah Kosow (coordination), Vanessa Schweizer (ZuWaKo advisory board) The ZuWaKo project attended the 6th International Conference on Public Policy of the IPPA,, the ICCP6, from June 27 to 29 in Toronto, Canada. In a presentation of the overall project, Hannah Kosow gave an overview on the basic concept