Dear all,
We recently had an article published on urban sanitation in Sustainability's special issue "A Contextual and Dynamic Understanding of Sustainable Urbanisation" .

This open access article, 'Towards “sustainable” sanitation: challenges and opportunities in urban areas', discusses what sustainable sanitation means in cities, and how it can yield multiple development benefits.

[Abstract] 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.

For access to the article please follow this link.

All the best,
Kim