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 […]
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
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
CIB-Café #14 The FuTureSCAPES Navigator – exploring CIB-matrixes through serious gaming Read More »
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
On February 20, Heiner Kaufmann, senior corporate developer at the Swiss Federal Railways SBB, presented the SBB scenario space 2050. This scenario approach supports the strategy development at SBB, preparing the company to plan for and to adapt to future changes in its contexts. He proposed multiple possibilities to use generative AI in the course
CIB Café #13 SBB scenario space 2050+ with generative scenario blueprinting Read More »
On 5 and 6 February 2025, a conference of the EURAC, Bolzano, took place in Val Venosta, South Tyrol, on the topic of “Rethinking water use”. The Val Venosta is one of the driest regions in the Alps and for centuries the topic of water and its distribution have played a central role. The current
REthinking Water – EURAC ConFerence in South Tyrol Read More »
The serious game from Module A at the example of a river catchment was successfully tested with local stakeholders in a joint workshop on February 7, 2025. In this workshop, the results and information about the projects and ideas of the serious game were presented. This was followed by the actual game session and finally
Fruitful exchange about the ZuWaKo serious game in the stakeholder workshop of module A Read More »
© ZuWaKo The researchers of the Ladenburg Kollleg “Future Water Conflicts in Germany” met for the sixth time, this time at Forschungszentrum Jülich. The face-to-face meetings are an important addition to the operational working meetings, in which the members of the group exchange information online on a weekly basis. The meeting in Jülich marked the
6. Project meeting AT Forschungszentrum JülicH, 13.-14.01.2025 Read More »
Dr. Geert te Boveldt and Dr. Sara Tori , both from von Mobilize at VUB, presented their new web application www.crispa-sis.eu on Dec 12, 2024. The freely availble application supports actors to design robust strategies comprising internal and external factors and to carry out multi-stakeholder assessments. While CRISPA (Cross Impact Scenario Policy Analysis) is based
