1. Panelist Responses Bioenergy and Sustainability in Africa Makoto Yokohari Petra Schweizer-Ries Shauna BurnSilver Barry Ness

2. Project framework How we do sustainability science

3. Themes Scale Rural – Urban linkages Competing time perspectives Linking the global to the local (household) Doing sustainability science research Descriptive analytical versus transformative research Critical research Project duration Alternative development pathways

4. Domestic market International market Fuel, Food Cash CityRegion Balancing Intra-city/region system should be the basis of a sustainable city/region Urban population Rural population 2008 City should also become a provider of fuel and food Need to revise the whole energy and food systems to achieve a sustainable city/region

5. Some short feedback See the whole system Map of Institutes/actors analysis GIS mapping and think tank Community project with science-community cooperation potentials Business model => Cooperation for sustainable development

6. Pyramid of Participation give information receive & demand information consultation; obtain opinions contribute and give an opinion cooperation; accord co-decision cooperation; co-decision grant scope of action accept responsibility; act on one’s own authority Involving people influence & activity/ level of involvement & level of contribution Involved people IAPS 01.06.2010; Irina Rau Rau, Schweizer-Ries & Hildebrandt (in press)

7. Münger & Riemer (in press) reflect on: power, privilege, and cultural competences Challenges: T1: willingness to “invest“ something (organisations and persons) T2: be clear about the purpose for collaboration; think about types: top-down vs bottom-up; mandatory vs voluntary; problem-based vs vision-based. think about size & structure T3: select the “right“ team members; but, be aware of diversity! T4: take care of benefits! T5: develop joint goals and missions

8. Basis for successful collaborations (respect/ sensitization, trust/ cooperation and solidarity/ empathy ) strong commitment to common goals diversity and respectful valuation of “the other” participation oriented leadership skills Contextual factors: institutional supports other joint projects availability of electronic linkages among participants. Modifided according to Stockols (2006)

9. How does SS contribute to solutions to sustainability problems, as opposed to “only” enhancing our understanding of these problems? (Wiek et al. 2012)  How did the line between creating a policy-enabling environment and project implementation form? - Explicit, from the beginning? - Post hoc: an iterative, co-evolutionary process? Challenge: How to forge these links and create a dynamic that builds (post funding), with other competing narratives/models? - Brazilian agro-ecological mapping? - Large Plantations, and biofuel for export? Variation and selection of business models and technology, in an emerging innovation system Human controversies and actions around biofuels, sustainability and societal values of equity  The Jatropha Biofuels Sector in TZ (2005-2009) : Evolution towards Sustainability? (Romijn and Caniëls 2011) Actionable Knowledge ?? A historical view T1 T2

10. Critical research in SustSci Questioning development pathways… Beneficial biofuels (Tilman et al. 2009) Biofuels for whom? Neocolonialism Land grabbing Alternatives to top-down approaches

11. Doing sustainability science Project scope Project duration