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At the 16th ESA Conference (ESA 2024), held from 27 to 30 August in Porto, Portugal, the project and, in particular, the systematic investigation of water conflicts were presented. The talk by Simon Brauner, entitled ‘Water conflicts: More than conflicts over distribution?‘, addressed the social aspects of conflicts against the backdrop of the sociological focus […]

On July 25, 2024, Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle presented and launched the new online version of the CIB software ScenarioWizard. The ScenarioWizard is the free software for easy use of the qualitative system and scenario method CIB (Cross-Impact Balance Analysis). CIB was developed about 20 years ago by Dr. Wolfgang Weimer-Jehle. The new web application provides an

During the EASST-4S 2024, a conference of EASST and 4S, from 16 to 19 July in Amsterdam, Netherlands, ZuWaKo was able to reveal the latest results. Simon Brauner, who presented a paper by the doctoral group (Janina Moschner, Fabian Hölzlberger and himself), represented the project. The presentation entitled ‘Upcoming water conflicts in Germany? – Creating

The ZuWaKo project partners met at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony from July 9-10, 2024. We discussed the status and next steps of the PhD projects and made progress with the joint simulation game and the “Futurescape Navigator” web application. Many good ideas were developed in a constructive exchange. We also had the very

On July 4, 2024, Dr. Norman M. Kearney Dr. Norman Kearney from the Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern was our guest at the ZuWaKo CIB-Café #9. He presented his work around „Nature based solutions for sustainable food systems: agroforestry in Peru“. Norman has developed an application (Prophesy) that advances options to carry

“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

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