Demand for improved sanitation in an urban informal settlement in India: role of the local built environment

Panchang, Sarita

doi:10.1080/09603123.2018.1533530

Cited by 5 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 40 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Inclusive business models such as the community-based approaches to total sanitation and community-led total sanitation may have the potential to achieve both waste management, resource recovery, and sanitation provision objectives [122]. Examples include the Menengai Waste Recycling Management Group, Nakuru Waste Collectors and Recyclers Management Cooperative Society in Kenya [33,123], the Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods in Haiti, the X-Runner in Peru, and the Clean Team in Ghana and SANERGY in Kenya [18].…”

Section: Product Attributesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why do We Know So Much and Yet So Little? A Scoping Review of Willingness to Pay for Human Excreta Derived Material in Agriculture

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Challenges associated with rapid population growth, urbanization, and nutrient mining have seen increased global research and development towards ‘waste to wealth’ initiatives, circular economy models, and cradle-to-cradle waste management principles. Closing the nutrient loop through safe recovery and valorization of human excreta for agricultural use may provide a sustainable method of waste management and sanitation. Understanding the market demand is essential for developing viable waste management and sanitation provision business models. The pathways and processes for the safe recovery of nutrients from human excreta are well-documented. However, only anecdotal evidence is available on the willingness to pay for human excreta-derived material in agriculture. This review closes this gap by identifying and synthesizing published evidence on farmers’ willingness to pay for human excreta-derived material for agricultural use. The Scopus and Web of Science search engines were used to search for the literature. The search results were screened, and the data were extracted, charted, and synthesized using the DistillerSR web-based application. The findings show that understanding willingness to pay for human excreta-derived material is still a nascent and emerging research area. Gender, education, and experience are common factors that influence the farmers’ willingness to pay. The findings show that pelletization, fortification, labeling, packaging, and certification are essential attributes in product development. The wide-scale commercialization can be achieved through incorporation of context-specific socioeconomic, religious and cultural influences on the estimation of willingness to pay. Promoting flexible legislation procedures, harmonization of regional legislations, and creating incentives for sustainable waste recovery and reuse may also promote the commercialization of circular nutrient economy initiatives. More empirical studies are required to validate willingness to pay estimates, especially using the best practice for conducting choice experiments.

show abstract

Section: Product Attributesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why do We Know So Much and Yet So Little? A Scoping Review of Willingness to Pay for Human Excreta Derived Material in Agriculture

et al. 2020

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Panchang. (2019) took the city of Pimpri Chinchwad in Maharashtra, India as a spatial scale to study the impact of basic sanitation facilities on the urban architectural environment [ 4 ]. Overall, the research on HS currently mainly focuses on large spatial scales such as nations, regions, and cities, while studies based on smaller spatial scales like village areas are still rare.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Promoting the sustainable development of traditional villages: Exploring the comprehensive assessment, spatial and temporal evolution, and internal and external impacts of traditional village human settlements in hunan province

Long,

Ișık,

Yan

et al. 2024

Heliyon

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…(2) How do informal settlements construct a governance framework that combines top-down and bottom-up approaches in response to COVID-19? (3) Embedding of social networks in the built environment and their dynamic changes in informal settlements, 39 and the resulting spatial reconstruction and community adaptation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The response of residents to COVID-19, the influence of the community environment and the changes in the built environment all could influence the process and effectiveness of epidemic prevention, which in turn influence the behaviour of residents in the community. 37 In this study, we investigated the emergency response and healthy community construction of informal settlements, focussing not only on the importance of the local government, 25 the involvement of community volunteers 38 and the underlying wisdom of the dwellers, 11 but also on the epidemic response and interaction process of informal settlements, which have received less attention in previous research. In particular, we aimed to investigate the following: (1) How are the different participants in informal settlements, such as the local government, community committees and tenants, affected by COVID-19?…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vulnerable or resilient? The response of informal settlements to COVID-19: The case of urban village communities in Beijing

Dong

Wang

Lin

et al. 2022

Indoor and Built Environment

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought topics of the impact, response and adaptation of cities in emergencies to the forefront. When compared with formal settlements, the problems faced by informal settlements are more prominent. We propose the framework of an actor-network theory, substantiated by an empirical study of three typical informal settlements in Haidian District, Beijing, in which the process, characteristics and internal mechanism of the spatial reconstruction of the informal settlements in response to COVID-19 are closely scrutinised. Human actors such as local governments, community volunteers, landlords, tenants and non-human actors all participated in the response to COVID-19 according to their goal vision and political logic, with the local government as the core driving force, forming an integrated actor network. Rooted in the special locality of informal settlements, the actor network was both hierarchical and flexible, and its inherent dynamism has proven to be efficient during COVID-19, resulting in social adaptation and spatial reconstruction. This study contributes to the cautiously optimistic estimate of similar urban community resilience in terms of global epidemics and enriches the understanding of their interlacing dynamics from the perspective of spatial reconstruction.

show abstract

Demand for improved sanitation in an urban informal settlement in India: role of the local built environment

Cited by 5 publications

References 40 publications

Why do We Know So Much and Yet So Little? A Scoping Review of Willingness to Pay for Human Excreta Derived Material in Agriculture

Why do We Know So Much and Yet So Little? A Scoping Review of Willingness to Pay for Human Excreta Derived Material in Agriculture

Promoting the sustainable development of traditional villages: Exploring the comprehensive assessment, spatial and temporal evolution, and internal and external impacts of traditional village human settlements in hunan province

Vulnerable or resilient? The response of informal settlements to COVID-19: The case of urban village communities in Beijing

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About