Towards “sustainable” sanitation: challenges and opportunities in urban areas
By Kim Andersson, S. Dickin, A. Rosemarin. 2016
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While sanitation is fundamental for health and wellbeing, cities of all sizes face growing challenges in providing safe, affordable and functional sanitation systems that are also sustainable. Factors such as limited political will, inadequate technical, financial and institutional capacities and failure to integrate safe sanitation systems into broader urban development have led to a persistence of unsustainable systems and missed opportunities to tackle overlapping and interacting urban challenges. This paper reviews challenges associated with providing sanitation systems in urban areas and explores ways to promote sustainable sanitation in cities. It focuses on opportunities to stimulate sustainable sanitation approaches from a resource recovery perspective, generating added value to society while protecting human and ecosystem health. We show how, if integrated within urban development, sustainable sanitation has great potential to catalyse action and contribute to multiple sustainable development goals.
Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Nutrition and Dietetics, Political Science and International Relations
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- Access to Sanitation Facilities among Nigerian Households: Determinants and Sustainability Implications (2017, background): “From a health perspective, use of unimproved sanitation facilities and unsustainable disposal of human waste is a leading cause of diseases transmitted via human excrement, such as diarrhea, hepatitis and typhoid fever [28].”