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The value chain (VC) system is a key way to address important
sanitation technological and institutional gaps in production and
service delivery and could constitute a natural platform for
development actions and also serve as a market systems approach to
improve access to safely-managed sanitation. It has been suggested
that sanitation could boost local and national economies and global
interconnections with a growing recognition that the private sector
can play a bigger role in delivering the Sustainable Development
Goal for sanitation, and help businesses understand value-added and
product opportunities. This book proposes a pathway towards
re-thinking the sanitation value chain (SVC) and suggests that it
should cover all processes, activities and products of
enterprises/actors in the sanitation supply chain that provide
value-added services within each stage. Following the Regenerative
Sanitation Principles, this book presents a new perspective to the
SVC known as the 'integrated functional sanitation value chain'
(IFSVC) to address operational functions within sanitation systems
in combination with sanitation enterprises, operators and external
actors that support the growth of the sanitation economy. The
underlying premise of this book is that the IFSVC represents a new
perspective that would have major social, environmental and
economic implications for local, national, regional and global
sanitation service delivery. It is hoped that researchers, business
leaders, entrepreneurs, government officials and funders will find
this book valuable, and be inspired and enabled to carry sanitation
work forward in their own spheres of operation. The book gives
several examples of encouraging developments, particularly in
technical and business model innovation. It is our hope that this
book will provide the stimulus for new learning and its
application, particularly through cross-disciplinary and
cross-sector partnerships that bring together all the skills and
capabilities needed to deliver a fully effective IFSVC.
This book proposes Regenerative Sanitation as the next era of
sanitation management and attempts to provide a foundation for the
study of sanitation on the premise that sanitation is a complex and
dynamic system that comprises of social-ecological, technological
and resource systems. The preconception is that sanitation will
deliver maximal benefits to society only when there exists a
cyclical integration of the three subsystems to enable appropriate
linkages between 'technological design' and the 'delivery platform'
so as to achieve optimal and sustained sani-solutions. It also
calls for the rethinking of sanitation to change the narrative
towards more progressive trajectories such as resource recovery and
reuse rather than just amelioration. It explores the contributions
to food security, livelihood support, urban regeneration, rural
development and even local economies. A new paradigm, theory and
ten principles for ensuring practical and effective sanitation
solutions and management is presented. In addition is a unique
conceptual framework applicable to both developed and developing
countries, and to all stages, processes and cycles of delivering
sanitation solutions that could critically evaluate, analyse and
provide credible, adequate and appropriate sanitation solutions.
All of which culminates in a strategic and practical application
platform called 'Sanitation 4.0' that advocates for total
rejuvenation and comprehensive overhaul with eight key strategic
considerations for the implementation. Regenerative Sanitation: A
New Paradigm For Sanitation 4.0 is inter and trans- disciplinary
and encourages collaboration between engineers, scientists,
technologists, social scientists and others to provide effective
and practical user-centred solutions. It includes relevant case
studies, examples, exercise and future research recommendations. It
is written as both a textbook for researchers and students as well
as a practitioners' guide for policymakers and professionals.
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