Inclusive Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health (WASH2): Towards a Sustainable and Healthy Society
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2022) | Viewed by 23551
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater/greywater treatment and management; global water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), environmental health; solid waste management; sustainable sanitation; resource and energy recovery; community-based research; water resources management; disaster/hazard risk reduction
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Interests: urban water demand; water security; water services
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Special Issue Information
This Special Issue calls for original research on those excluded people who may be systematically ignored from WASH2 services, initiatives, and programs due to poverty, power (both local and international), social exclusion, and other hidden factors in society. It will also focus on individual inequalities such as gender and disability, which can lead to the unsafe condition of those people related to WASH2. Moreover, the SI will uncover the inequalities in some groups in the society, such as caste or religion, who face challenges in accessing WASH2 services. Politicospatial inequalities such as informal settlements/slums or remote/rural places could also enhance unsafe WASH2 services in many parts of the world. We also call for papers examining the challenges faced by groups such as the homeless, indigenous people/First Nations communities/aboriginal people, and farmers who are systematically excluded from WASH2 services, plan, programs, and initiatives in low-, middle-, and high-income countries. Critical review papers with the new dimension will also be considered for this Special Issue.
Dr. Sayed Mohammad Nazim Uddin
Prof. Dr. Chad Staddon
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Global Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Health (WASH2)
- Social exclusion
- Marginalization
- Global South and North
- Inequalities and insecurity
- Global health or international health or one health research
- Risks, hazards and vulnerabilities
- Homelessness
- Poverty and power
- Service delivery
- WASH2 and women
- Indigenous/First Nations/Aboriginal people
- WASH2 system approach
- Community-based research
- Epidemiology
- Health policy
- Environmental health
- Urban political ecology
- Humanitarian WASH2
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