Towards “Sustainable” Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Areas
Stockholm Environment Institute, Linnégatan 87D, 115 23 Stockholm, Sweden
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Sustainability 2016, 8(12), 1289; https://doi.org/10.3390/su8121289
Received: 8 June 2016
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Revised: 1 December 2016
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Accepted: 2 December 2016
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Published: 8 December 2016
(This article belongs to the Special Issue A Contextual and Dynamic Understanding of Sustainable Urbanisation)
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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Keywords:
urbanization; sustainable sanitation; resource recovery; urban planning and development; public health
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Andersson, K.; Dickin, S.; Rosemarin, A. Towards “Sustainable” Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Areas. Sustainability 2016, 8, 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8121289
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Andersson K, Dickin S, Rosemarin A. Towards “Sustainable” Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Areas. Sustainability. 2016; 8(12):1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8121289
Chicago/Turabian StyleAndersson, Kim, Sarah Dickin, and Arno Rosemarin. 2016. "Towards “Sustainable” Sanitation: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Areas" Sustainability 8, no. 12: 1289. https://doi.org/10.3390/su8121289
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