A Systems Approach to Sustainable Sanitation Challenges in Urbanising China (SASSI)

应对中国城市化进程中可持续卫生挑战的系统方法 (SASSI)

• 批准号: NE/S012354/1
• 负责人: Deljana Iossifova
• 金额: $ 41.25万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FS012354%2F1
• 关键词: Systems; Approach; Sustainable; Sanitation; Challenges

Sanitation systems are entangled with social, technical and ecological systems at smaller and larger scales. How they are planned, implemented, managed, maintained and used has impact on sustainability outcomes. The transformation of national sanitation infrastructures, although usually implemented with the aim to improve human well-being, may carry adverse implications for human health, social relations and environmental sustainability. Yet, there is a lack of systematic and integrated evidence on the sustainability outcomes of transitions in sanitation systems. Such outcomes can depend on factors as diverse as context-specific resource availability, everyday practices and local value, belief and norm systems.The overall aim of this project is to contribute to improved human well-being as the overarching goal of the Sustainable Development agenda. It aims to enhance our understanding of complex human-environment interactions and their sustainability outcomes. It will highlight the need for sustainable sanitation systems in dense urban environments (SDG12, SDG10); support efforts to develop sanitation infrastructures that are culturally appropriate, more inclusive, economically viable and less wasteful (SDG6, SDG11); contribute to reducing inequalities in promoting sustainable sanitation for low-income areas (SDG10, SDG12); and help progress the improvement of living standards for the poor (SDG11) and the reduction of common health risks associated with the lack of appropriate sanitation (SDG3).The project will define and advance a systems approach for sanitation which situates basic human functions within wider human ecosystems of critical social, economic and environmental resources and social institutions, cycles and order. It will study possible sustainability outcomes across different sanitation systems (such as service-networked or sewage-based sanitation), environments (e.g., urban, peri-urban, rural) and temporal scales (to account for time lags, increased scale and pace and the indirect effects of sanitation) using various analytical approaches and state-of-the-art modelling. The project has four interlinked objectives: Obj1. To understand the components of (and their interaction within) different types of sanitation systems as well as how sanitation systems interact with other social, technical and environmental systems (system of systems)Obj2. To reveal the interactions between different sanitation systems and the Sustainable Development Agenda, SDGs and their targetsObj3. To co-develop with stakeholders models and tools to support informed decision making in sanitation towards sustainable developmentObj4. To build transdisciplinary capacity in sanitation research, design, planning, implementation, management and maintenanceThe project will focus on Shanghai (China) as a prime example of urban transformation. The mega-city offers opportunities to study the entanglement of co-evolving urban, peri-urban and rural environments at varying stages of infrastructural development. We will collect quantitative and qualitative data to understand infrastructural transitions over time and explore how possible context-specific policy- or design-focused interventions may contribute to sustainable development goals. Scenario building will allow us to consider plausible futures whilst taking into account possible uncertainties. The project will offer the comprehensive and transdisciplinary understanding of sustainability outcomes related to transitions in sanitation systems that is often missing from existing studies. The collaboration of investigators and members of the Advisory Board in academic (UoM, MMU, UoA, Tongji, UoT, UOx), applied (EAWAG, Sustainable Sanitation, Desire Lines) and policy-driven (UNU-IIGH) research with complementary strengths will add significant value to the project. It will facilitate the effective communication of findings to a wide range of end-users.

无论规模大小，卫生系统都与社会、技术和生态系统纠缠在一起。如何规划、实施、管理、维护和使用它们对可持续发展的结果有影响。国家卫生基础设施的改造虽然通常是为了改善人类福祉，但可能对人类健康、社会关系和环境的可持续性产生不利影响。然而，缺乏关于卫生系统转型的可持续性结果的系统和综合证据。这些结果可能取决于多种因素，如特定环境的资源可用性、日常实践和当地价值、信仰和规范体系。该项目的总目标是促进改善人类福祉，将其作为可持续发展议程的首要目标。它旨在增强我们对复杂的人与环境相互作用及其可持续性结果的理解。它将强调在人口密集的城市环境中建立可持续卫生系统的必要性（可持续发展目标12、10）；支持发展文化上适宜、更具包容性、经济上可行、浪费更少的卫生基础设施（可持续发展目标6、11）；促进减少低收入地区在促进可持续卫生方面的不平等现象（可持续发展目标10、12）；并帮助改善穷人的生活水平（可持续发展目标11）和减少与缺乏适当卫生设施有关的常见健康风险（可持续发展目标3）。该项目将确定和推进一种卫生系统方法，将基本人类功能置于具有关键社会、经济和环境资源以及社会机构、周期和秩序的更广泛的人类生态系统中。它将使用各种分析方法和最先进的模型，研究不同卫生系统（如服务网络化或基于污水的卫生设施）、环境（如城市、城郊、农村）和时间尺度（考虑时间滞后、规模和速度的增加以及卫生设施的间接影响）可能产生的可持续性结果。该项目有四个相互关联的目标：Obj1。了解不同类型卫生系统的组成部分（及其在其中的相互作用），以及卫生系统如何与其他社会、技术和环境系统（系统的系统）相互作用。揭示不同卫生系统与可持续发展议程、可持续发展目标及其具体目标之间的相互作用。与利益攸关方共同开发模式和工具，支持卫生领域的知情决策，以实现可持续发展。建设环卫研究、设计、规划、实施、管理和维护的跨学科能力。该项目将重点关注中国上海作为城市转型的典范。超大城市提供了机会来研究在基础设施发展的不同阶段共同发展的城市、城郊和农村环境的纠缠。我们将收集定量和定性数据，以了解基础设施随着时间的推移而发生的转变，并探索针对具体情况的政策或设计干预措施如何有助于实现可持续发展目标。情景构建将使我们在考虑可能的不确定性的同时，考虑到可能的未来。该项目将提供与卫生系统转型相关的可持续性成果的全面和跨学科理解，这在现有研究中往往是缺失的。研究人员和咨询委员会成员在学术研究（UoM、MMU、UoA、同济大学、UoT、UOx）、应用研究（EAWAG、可持续卫生、愿望线）和政策驱动研究（UNU-IIGH）方面的合作，具有互补优势，将为项目增加重要价值。它将有助于将调查结果有效地传达给广泛的最终用户。

项目成果

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Healthy Cities in an Urban Age? Public Health and the Emergent Metropolis

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• 发表时间: 2020
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Urban Infrastructuring - Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South

城市基础设施——南方国家的重新配置、转型和可持续性

• DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_19
• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Iossifova D

Las ciudades ante el COVID-19: Nuevas direcciones para la investigación urbana y las políticas públicas

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• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Iossifova D

Ageing and population shrinking: implications for sustainability in the urban century

• DOI: 10.1038/s42949-021-00023-z
• 发表时间: 2021-05-27
• 期刊: NPJ URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
• 作者: Jarzebski, Marcin Pawel;Elmqvist, Thomas;Pu, Jian
• 通讯作者: Pu, Jian