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Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge

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Editors:
  1. Bas van Vliet

    1. Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

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  2. Gert Spaargaren

    1. Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

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  3. Peter Oosterveer

    1. Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

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  • The book highlights social and institutional aspects of Sanitation issues
  • Reference book for all committed to the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation
  • Unique collection of comparative European and African case studies
  • Offers worthwhile insights for engineers in sanitation as well as water and sanitation policy makers
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Social Scientific Concepts of Provisioning Sanitation Services

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 10-10
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    2. Introduction

      • Bas van Vliet, Gert Spaargaren, Peter Oosterveer
      Pages 1-8

    3. Meeting Social Challenges in Developing Sustainable Environmental Infrastructures in East African Cities

      • Peter Oosterveer, Gert Spaargaren
      Pages 11-30

    4. Sense and Sanitation

      • Bas van Vliet, Gert Spaargaren
      Pages 31-47

    5. Providing Sanitation for the Urban Poor in Uganda

      • James Okot-Okumu, Peter Oosterveer
      Pages 49-66

  3. Decision-Making Tools

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 68-68
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    2. A Flowstream Approach for Sustainable Sanitation Systems

      • Elizabeth Tilley, Christian Zurbrügg, Christoph Lüthi
      Pages 69-86

    3. A Learning and Decision Methodology for Drainage and Sanitation Improvement in Developing Cities

      • Joost van Buuren, Astrid Hendriksen
      Pages 87-103

    4. Perceptions of Local Sustainability in Planning Sanitation Projects in West Africa

      • Jennifer McConville, Jaan-Henrik Kain, Elisabeth Kvarnström
      Pages 105-124

    5. Interactions Between Urban Forms and Source-Separating Sanitation Technologies

      • Franziska Meinzinger, Volker Ziedorn, Irene Peters
      Pages 125-144

    6. Reconsidering Urban Sewer and Treatment Facilities in East Africa as Interplay of Flows, Networks and Spaces

      • Sammy Letema, Bas van Vliet, Jules B. van Lier
      Pages 145-162

    7. Meeting the Sanitation Challenge in Sub-Saharan Cities: Lessons Learnt from a Financial Perspective

      • Jérémie Toubkiss
      Pages 163-176

  4. Perspectives from Farmers and End-Users

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 178-178
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    2. Role of Farmers in Improving the Sustainability of Sanitation Systems

      • HÃ¥kan Jönsson, Pernilla TidÃ¥ker, Anna Richert Stintzing
      Pages 179-188

    3. Governing Peri-Urban Waste Water Used by Farmers: Implications for Design and Management

      • Reginald Grendelman, Frans Huibers
      Pages 189-202

    4. End User Perspectives on the Transformation of Sanitary Systems

      • Dries Hegger, Bas van Vliet
      Pages 203-216

    5. Conclusion and Discussion

      • Gert Spaargaren, Bas van Vliet, Peter Oosterveer
      Pages 217-225

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 227-242
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About this book

This volume is the result of years of commitment with world-wide sanitation challenges from various research networks linking the editors and authors of this volume to many other sanitation scholars and professionals. Major contributions to this volume are derived from the work done in the PROVIDE project (working on sustainable urban infrastructures in cities of the Lake Victoria Basin, East Africa), the DESAR project (research and pilot projects in Decentralized Sanitation and Reuse, the Netherlands), and among others within NETSSAF (large scale implementation of sanitation in Africa), and EcoSan networks. The major milestone for this book to emerge was however the IWA Sanitation Challenge Conference of May 2008 in Wageningen, the Netherlands where all the authors of this book presented their papers. The conference was organized by a consortium of sanitation specialists at Wageningen University’s Environmental Policy Group (the editors) and the s- department of Environmental Technology, LeAF (Lettinga Associates Foundation) and Wetsus (Center of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology in the Netherlands). It was a unique event as it enabled a truly multi-disciplinary approach in discussing Sanitation Challenges in North and South with social and political scientists, natural scientists, environmental engineers and practitioners in one s- entific conference. This volume presents a selection of the social scientific insights and research results presented at the Sanitation Challenge Conference: the concepts, decisi- making support tools and the perspectives from farmers and consumers towards sanitation innovation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

    Bas van Vliet, Gert Spaargaren, Peter Oosterveer

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