FUSE (Food-water-energy for Urban Sustainable Environments) is a transdisciplinary research project (2018-2022) involving the Food-Water-Energy resources nexus in Jordan, with a focus on its capital, Amman. The project developed a long-term systems model that was used to identify viable paths to resource sustainability. It brings together scientists, engineers, economists, and stakeholder engagement experts from Stanford University in California, USA, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis) in Laxenburg, Austria, UFZ (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research) in Leipzig, Germany, and ÖFSE (Austrian Foundation for Development Research) in Vienna, Austria. The project is a not-for-profit research effort and is part of the Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative of JPI Urban Europe and the Belmont Forum. Each of the national teams is supported individually by its own national science-funding agency.

To incorporate the knowledge, expertise and views across Jordan’s society, FUSE adopted a Sustainability Living Lab (SLL) approach. The SLL approach includes a stakeholder analysis and two series of workshops, at the beginning and the end of the project period, respectively. In the first set of workshops (held in March 2019), stakeholders affected by future policy interventions and policy experts shared visions, challenges, coping strategies, and potential infrastructural and policy solutions under future conditions in which there
are limited FWE resources. Additionally, regional modelling experts contributed insights on nexus dimensions of food, water and energy from an urban perspective.

The information gathered in the initial workshops was then formulated into potential solutions, each requiring policy and infrastructural interventions. These interventions were evaluated by the FUSE team under a range of future climate and population change scenarios. The likely benefits of these interventions were explored using a systems model. In a second set of workshops (September 2021), these systems model results were presented to three groups: affected stakeholders, policy experts, and strategic policy thinkers. Feedback was elicited on the feasibility of, or barriers to, implementing the most promising suggested interventions.

This report presents the outcomes of the second set of workshops in Amman (Jordan) and additionally summarizes the SLL approach by looking back at the initial workshop results and subsequent development of the policy-evaluation model.