The model can sufficiently predict system-wide changes in the system, to assist in initiating stakeholder assessments.
To answer our research question we studied stakeholder assessments in three countries that had taken part in the IMAGINATION research project.7 'Stakeholders' are defined as actors who deal professionally with European mobility, selected on the basis of their professional affiliation, and distributed across public, private and NGO sector.
This allowed a variety of stakeholder assessments from across the spectrum of the UK bioenergy system to be captured.
This will be done by conducting an integrated, multifaceted research programme comprising stakeholder assessments, population surveys and food supply evaluations.
There was some difference between provider and other stakeholder assessments about whether the telephone would be more appropriate to address general versus focused issues.
Drawing on stakeholder assessments identified in both the documentary review and stakeholder interviews, we call attention to a number of salient gaps and limitations in these appraisals of 1G biofuels that have potentially significant implications for the sustainability appraisal of 2G biofuels.
We draw on our experience as social scientists embedded in a major UK scientific programme on 2G biofuels where a key aspect of our work is to explore different stakeholder assessments of the sustainability of biofuels in the UK, in the context of a global bioenergy system.
The stakeholders' assessment of the State of the Environment and Sustainability Reports can also be used as an indirect way for formal results evaluation, allowing for cross-validation.
Ultimately, as Guba & Lincoln observed, stakeholders' assessment of an intervention's worth largely depends on how the causes of underlying problems are perceived [ 24].
The program components were based on a review of the literature, consultation with experts and stakeholders, assessment of characteristics of successful change models and factors for sustainability, identification of barriers and enablers to introduction of best practice and experience from implementation and evaluation in a large health service network.
