CAREER: Integrated Municipal Sanitation Systems

99854318路易斯拟议的研究有两个主要目标。第一是使市政卫生服务(供水、废水处理和固体废物管理)的业绩对其利益攸关方(公众、服务提供者和政府监管机构)负责。第二是确保有能力满足发达国家和发展中国家城市对这些服务的长期需求。PI注意到独立提供市政卫生服务的普遍做法，几乎没有跨供水、废水处理和固体废物管理学科的整合，并认为这是一个关键的失败。他提议开发和提供综合环卫服务的系统办法，并认为综合办法通过确定规模经济、减少废物以及增加资源的回收和再利用，有望提供更具成本效益的服务。该项目有三个主要活动领域：(1)实证研究，(2)教育和(3)外联。这些活动以评价和规划市政卫生服务的系统办法为中心。该方法将服务视为集成系统的组件，并将其技术、行政和制度参数作为系统的功能需求进行分析。拟议的研究计划涉及对组件服务的功能和操作目标的理解。PI将把相关法律和条例规定的职能目标和主要利益攸关方的意见与业绩衡量标准进行比较，以评估目标的实现情况，并确定和评价改进的备选办法。由于这些服务的整合需要它们之间的信息无缝共享，PI还将分析信息技术在整合和改进服务方面的作用、要求和机会。该项目的教育计划通过提供两个新课程-研究生实习和外展项目-来补充研究。这些项目将建立必要的人力基础设施，以便对市政环卫服务的设计和管理采取背景驱动的综合办法。研究和教育部分将通过一个外联部分得到加强，该部分旨在招募来自发展中国家的有色人种学生、妇女和学生，将该项目提出的方法带回其家乡社区。此外，该项目还将举办一个关于城市卫生问题和解决方案的网络论坛，并与其他国内外学术机构就相关研发项目进行合作。***

99854318 Louis The proposed research has two main goals. The first is to make the performance of municipal sanitation services (water supply, wastewater treatment and solid waste management) accountable to their stakeholders (the public, the service providers and government regulators). The second is to assure the capacity to satisfy demand for these services over the long term in cities of both developed and developing countries. The PI notes the general practice of providing municipal sanitation services independently with little integration across the disciplines of water supply, wastewater treatment and solid waste management and sees this as a key failing. He proposes to develop a systems approach to the development and delivery of integrated sanitation services and posits that an integrated approach holds out the promise of more cost-effective delivery through identification of economies of scale, waste reduction and increased recycling and re-use of resources. This project has three main areas of activity: (1) empirical research, (2) education and (3) outreach. These activities are centered on a systems approach to evaluating and planning municipal sanitation services. The approach treats the services as components of an integrated system and analyzes their technical, administrative and institutional parameters as functional requirements of the system.The proposed research plan involves the development of an understanding of the functional and operational objectives of the component services. The PI will compare the functional objectives, as set out in relevant laws and regulations, and the views of the main stakeholders with performance measures to assess achievement of objectives and to identify and evaluate options for improvements. Since the integration of these services requires the seamless sharing of information among them, the PI will also analyze the role, requirements and opportunities for information technology in integrating and improving service.The educational program of this project complements the research by offering two new courses, graduate internships and outreach projects. These will build the human infrastructure necessary for context-driven, integrative approaches to the design and management of municipal sanitation services. The research and education components will be enhanced by an outreach component aimed at recruiting students of color, women and students from developing countries to channel the approaches presented in this project back to their home communities. In addition, the project will host a web-based forum on municipal sanitation problems and solutions and collaborate with other domestic and foreign academic institutions on related research and development projects. ***