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Pathways for Sustainable Sanitation in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals by arno rosemarin , nelson ekane , ian caldwell , elisabeth kvarnstrom , jennifer mcconville , cecilia ruben and madeleine fogde; Rosemarin, Arno; Stockholm Environment Institute is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Pathways for Sustainable Sanitation in Achieving the Millennium Development Goals about?

The report is a product arising from the work of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance which was initiated prior to the International Year of Sanitation in 2008 in an attempt to inject sustainable development ideas into the sanitation sector. It functions as a vision document for those policymakers, researchers and practitioners that are striving towards fundamental reform and improvements within the sanitation sector in both rural and urban populations in all countries of the world. It reviews the global progress being made towards achieving the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target on sanitation. A literature review is presented on sanitation provision including human health impacts and the estimated costs and benefits of achieving the MDG target. The report also provides a critique in that the UN has not yet introduced the concept of sustainability into the MDG programme in general and in particular into the sanitation sector which is highly dysfunctional and suffering from limited political leadership at both the local and global levels. It introduces the various sustainable sanitation options available and what approaches can be taken to improve sanitation systems – not just

Author

arno rosemarin , nelson ekane , ian caldwell , elisabeth kvarnstrom , jennifer mcconville , cecilia ruben and madeleine fogde; Rosemarin, Arno; Stockholm Environment Institute

Publisher

IWA Publishing (International Water Association)

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780401850

Subjects

Engineering, Technology, Stem