Towards “Sustainable” Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Areas
Andersson, K., Dickin, S., Rosemarin, A. (2016)
Published in: 2016
Pages: 14
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Stockholm Environment Institute
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Andersson, K., Dickin, S., Rosemarin, A.
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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.
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Andersson, K., Dickin, S., Rosemarin, A. (2016). Towards “Sustainable” Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Areas. Stockholm Environment Institute
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