News – ZuWaKo

“Secure/Safe drinking water supply amid uncertainty and climate change” – ZuWaKo attends the first scenario workshop of the ICaWaR project

On October 6, 2025, the scenario workshop for the ICAWaR project (“Integrated Climate Adaptation of Water Management in the Region”, coordinated by Prof. Melanie Nagel and Prof. Kira Rehfeld, Universität Tübingen) took place at the University’s Geo and Environmental Research Center in Tübingen. The meeting brought together experts from the natural and social sciences, administration, […]

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CIB Café#16 Janina Moschner on participatory modeling and serious gaming with CIB – at the example of conflicts around irrigation

On October 2, Janina Moschner, MA, from ZIRIUS at University of Stuttgart presented key results of her PhD research in ZuWaKo Module B to the CIB community. She gave insights into the participatory modeling process she carried out with a group of stakeholders in the Heilbronn region on the topic of possible future conflicts around

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Focus on climate adaptation: Water exhibition in Heilbronn addresses challenges and solutions

Local authorities are under increasing pressure to develop effective climate adaptation strategies – particularly when it comes to water, which plays a key role as a resource. It is therefore all the more encouraging to see cities such as Heilbronn actively helping to raise public awareness of these issues.The Heinrich Böll Foundation’s exhibition “Everything flows?!

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Water extremes as a threat to our democracy? Social resilience in the face of weather and climate challenges

Democracy needs water, water needs democracy. This is the central message we take away from the conference “Water extremes as a threat to our democracy” organized by the Baden-Württemberg State Ministry, the Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart and the Baden-Württemberg State Center for Political Education on 21.07.2025. Every intervention in the natural water balance

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CIB Café #15 with Markus Bresinsky on Russia 2030+ and the use of CIB in academic teaching

On July 10, 2025, we welcomed Prof. Markus Bresinsky at the CIB Café. He is a political scientist and economist with extensive experience as a policy analyst and consultant and holds a chair in International Politics and Social Sciences. At the 15th Café event, Markus Bresinsky reported on the scenarios for Russia’s development after 2030,

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7th project meeting At ZIRIUS, University of Stuttgart, 3.-4.7.2025

The researchers of the Ladenburger Kolleg “Future Water Conflicts in Germany” came together for the seventh time – this time at ZIRIUS, the Center for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Research. The meeting marked the transition to the final phase of the project. The focus was on the experiences of the doctoral students with the implementation

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Workshop on policy design under uncertainty

On 13 and 14 May, 2025, the ZuWako project organized a workshop on policy design under uncertainty. This workshop served to prepare the special issue (topical collection) of the same name of the European Journal of Futures Research, Springer Nature. This topical collection serves as the final methodological report of the ZuWaKo project and at

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Serious game workshop with stakeholders on the future water supply of Lusatia in the context of the coal phase-out and structural change

The water balance in Lusatia is strongly characterised by lignite mining and the associated groundwater elevations. For over 100 years, the water extracted in this way supported the water balance of the region, which is actually characterised by water scarcity, and fed rivers, nature and industry. With the Coal Phase-out Act, this period is coming

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CIB-Café #14 The FuTureSCAPES Navigator – exploring CIB-matrixes through serious gaming

On April 3, 2025, Dr. Wolfgang Hauser and Dr. Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle introduced the Serious Gaming platform “Futurescapes Navigator” developed within the ZuWaKo project. The platform builds upon the logic of Cross-Impact Balance analysis (CIB) (Weimer-Jehle 2006). CIB describes a system as a network of descriptors with mutual cross-impacts, which foster or hinder the development of

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The future of irrigation in the Heilbronn region- stakeholders jointly address potential conflicts already today

How will irrigation water use and governance evolve in the future? Complexity, uncertainty, and potential conflicts will play a key role. The ZuWaKo project , Module B, has spent the last 2.5 years developing a qualitative model that allows to explore challenges, related to future irrigation needs in agriculture and for urban green as well

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