Overview
Urban sanitation and solid waste sectors are under significant pressure in East Africa due to the lack of competent institutional capacity and the growth of the region’s urban population. This book presents and applies an original analytical approach to assess the existing socio-technical mixtures of waste and sanitation systems and to ensure wider access, increase flexibility and ecological sustainability. It shows how the problem is not the current diversity in waste and sanitation infrastructures and services and variety of types and scales of technology, of formal and informal sector involvement, and of management and ownership modes. The book focuses instead on the lack of an integrative approach to managing and upgrading of the various waste and sanitation configurations and services so as to ensure wider access, flexibility and sustainability for the low income populations who happen to be the main stakeholders. This approach, coined ""Modernized Mixtures"", serves as a nexus throughout the book. The empirical core addresses the waste and sanitation challenges and debates at each scale - from the micro-level (households) to the macro-level (international support) - and is based on the results of a five-year-long interdisciplinary, empirical research program. It assesses the socio-technical diversity in waste and sanitation and provides viable solutions to sanitation and waste management in East Africa. This book provides students, researchers and professional in environmental technology, sociology, management and urban planning with an integrated analytical perspective on centralized and decentralized waste and sanitation configurations and tools for improvement in the technology, policy and management of sanitation and solid waste sectors.
Full Product Details
Author: Bas van Vliet (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) ,
Joost van Buuren (Wageningen University, The Netherlands) ,
Shaaban Mgana (Ardhi University, Tanzania)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.453kg
ISBN: 9781138687172
ISBN 10: 1138687170
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 24 April 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Author Information
Dr Bas van Vliet is Assistant Professor at the Environmental Policy Group of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Dr Joost van Buuren is emeritus academic staff of the Sub-department of Environmental Technology of Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Dr Shaaban Mgana is a Researcher at Ardhi University (ARU) Department of Environmental Engineering, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
