Rethinking sanitation : quantifying and capturing resource flows in "waste" across geographic and economic contexts
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Sanitation, or the effective management of human excreta, is a basic societal function without which it is virtually impossible to preserve public health, human dignity, or the environment. Society today faces a variety of front-end and back-end sanitation challenges. In low- and middle-income countries, a large fraction of the population lacks access to proper front-end sanitation, toilet facilities that are clean and reliably isolate waste from people. An even larger fraction lacks back-end waste management systems that will minimize the potential for excreta to cause illness or environmental damage. In wealthier countries, we have largely delivered front-end and back-end sanitation, but the infrastructure that supports these services is old and needs replacement under new financial, regulatory, and environmental constraints. This dissertation examines the potential for container-based sanitation (CBS) and resource recovery from waste to reduce the costs of sanitation service delivery in various contexts. Case studies in Cap Haitien, Haiti; Bocas del Toro, Panama; and San Francisco, USA are used to quantify material and resource fluxes in human waste; evaluate the cost of capturing those fluxes; and determine the potential value of the resources. The dissertation also provides a discussion of conditions under which these approaches can provide viable and effective alternatives to conventional sanitation approaches.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Tilmans, Sébastien Henry |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Primary advisor | Criddle, Craig |
| Primary advisor | Davis, J. A. (Jennifer Ann) |
| Thesis advisor | Criddle, Craig |
| Thesis advisor | Davis, J. A. (Jennifer Ann) |
| Thesis advisor | Luthy, Richard G |
| Advisor | Luthy, Richard G |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sébastien Henry Tilmans. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2014. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2014 by Sebastien Henry Tilmans
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