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 […]
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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
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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
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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
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On June 15, 2023, Sara Tori, PhD student at the VUB (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) reported about her different CIB applications at the CIB Café. Together with colleagues, she has used CIB in the EU project SPROUT to develop scenarios of urban mobility until 2030 for five different cities. She has used innovative methodological approaches with
Tackling the Global Challenges for Energy Transition” was the theme of the Helmholtz Energy Conference, which took place from 12-13 June 2023 in Koblenz, Germany. Representing the ZuWaKo project, PhD student Simon Brauner gave a presentation entitled: “Water (conflicts) and energy? – Why we should not dismiss the impact of water for future developments”. He
Which challenges do cities, public authorities, and water users face concerning water reuse of cleaned water for irrigation? This gripping workshop of the WADKlim project (April 20, 2023) gave insight into the development process of new DWA-regulations (German water, sewage and waste management) for clear water usage, complemented by a matrix for needs assessment in
From April 17 to 18, 2023, the research partners of ZuWaKo gathered in Stuttgart at ZIRIUS. For two days, nine scientists from Freiberg, Jülich and Stuttgart discussed the status of the project and the next steps both in person and in part digitally. In addition to the report from the three modules, the project integration
Tobias Perillieux, student of the master program IWRM (Integrated Water Resource Management) at the TH Köln, has written a thesis in the context of Module B Conflicts of Irrigation. The thesis includes an inventory of conflicts about irrigation in agriculture in Germany. For this purpose, court cases and press articles were evaluated. In addition, the
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