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ZuWaKO at the German Congress of Geography DKG’23

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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ZuWaKo presents the latest developments of the project at ICPP6 in Toronto

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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ZuWaKo emphasizes the importance of water and conflict at the Helmholtz Energy Conference Koblenz 2023

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

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Master thesis on conflicts aBOUT irrigation in agriculture

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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Master’s thesis on water conflicts in large-scale projects, using mining as an example, successfully completed

On 06 March 2023, Fabian Hölzlberger successfully defended his Master’s thesis in Module C water conflicts in the mining sector. The aim of the thesis was to identify the stakeholder groups involved as well as their perception of water conflicts and future development opportunities. Methodically, the social analysis CLIP and semi-structured interviews were used, the

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