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Climate change and urban sanitation

  • Front cover of Urban sanitation and climate change report

    Urban sanitation and climate change: A public service at risk (2022)
    Report

  • Co-developing evidence-informed adaptation actions for resilient citywide sanitation: Local government response to climate change in Indonesia cover

    Co-developing evidence-informed adaptation actions for resilient citywide sanitation: Local government response to climate change in Indonesia (2022)
    Journal article

  • Climate resilient urban sanitation in Indonesia report cover

    Climate resilient urban sanitation in Indonesia: Hazards, impacts and responses in four cities (2021)
    Report

  • Front cover of Climate resilient urban sanitation in Indonesia report

    Climate resilient urban sanitation in Indonesia: Hazards, impacts and responses in four cities (2021)
    Technical paper

  • Considering climate change in urban sanitation: Conceptual approaches and practical implications [Summary] cover

    Considering climate change in urban sanitation: conceptual approaches and practical implications (2019)
    Report | Report Summary | Presentation

  • Climate sensitive FSM: New thinking from vulnerability, resilience and risk-hazard approaches cover

    Climate sensitive FSM: New thinking from vulnerability, resilience and risk-hazard approaches (2019)
    Presentation

  • Urban sanitation and climate uncertainty: New ways forward cover

    Urban sanitation and climate uncertainty: New ways forward (2019)
    Conference Poster

  • Poverty Dimensions of Water and Sanitation Services and Climate Vulnerability in Can Tho City – Research report cover

    Poverty Dimensions of Water and Sanitation Services and Climate Vulnerability in Can Tho City – Research report (2012)
    Report

Public health risks

  • Cover of Modelling faecal pathogen flows and health risks in urban Bangladesh: Implications for sanitation decision making

    Modelling faecal pathogen flows and health risks in urban Bangladesh: Implications for sanitation decision making (2021)
    Journal Paper | Presentation | Presentation | Policy paper

  • Cover for Pathogen flows from on-site sanitation systems in low-income urban neighborhoods, Dhaka: A quantitative environmental assessment

    Pathogen flows from on-site sanitation systems in low-income urban neighborhoods, Dhaka: A quantitative environmental assessment (2020)
    Journal Paper

  • Faecal Pathogen Flows and Their Public Health Risks in Urban Environments: A Proposed Approach to Inform Sanitation Planning cover

    Faecal Pathogen Flows and Their Public Health Risks in Urban Environments: A Proposed Approach to Inform Sanitation Planning (2018)
    Journal Paper

  • Modelling faecal pathogen flows and health risks in urban environments to inform sanitation planning - conference presentation cover

    Modelling faecal pathogen flows and health risks in urban environments to inform sanitation planning - conference presentation (2018)
    Presentation

  • WSUP’s Urban Sanitation Research Initiative cover

    WSUP’s Urban Sanitation Research Initiative
    Website

  • Making pathogen hazards visible: a new heuristic to improve sanitation investment efficacy cover

    Making pathogen hazards visible: a new heuristic to improve sanitation investment efficacy (2016)
    Journal Paper

  • Applying multi-barrier approach for safe faecal sludge re-use cover

    Applying multi-barrier approach for safe faecal sludge re-use
    Report Summary (2017) | Presentation (2019)

Planning, costing and financing

  • Cover for Editorial: City-Wide Sanitation: The Urban Sustainability Challenge

    Editorial: City-Wide Sanitation: The Urban Sustainability Challenge (2020)
    Journal Paper

  • Cover for Life-cycle costs of a resource-oriented sanitation system and implications for advancing a circular economy approach to sanitation

    Life-cycle costs of a resource-oriented sanitation system and implications for advancing a circular economy approach to sanitation (2021)
    Journal Paper

  • Are we doing the right thing? Critical questioning for city sanitation planning cover

    Are we doing the right thing? Critical questioning for city sanitation planning (2016)
    Report | Report Summary

  • City Sanitation Planning Through a Political Economy Lens cover

    City Sanitation Planning Through a Political Economy Lens (2019)
    Journal Paper

  • Financing sanitation for cities and towns cover

    Financing sanitation for cities and towns (2014)
    Report | Report Summary

  • Selecting sanitation options: a case study of South Can Tho – Technical Report cover

    Selecting sanitation options: a case study of South Can Tho – Technical Report (2010)
    Report

  • Cost-effectiveness analysis as a methodology to compare sanitation options in peri-urban Can Tho, Vietnam cover

    Cost-effectiveness analysis as a methodology to compare sanitation options in peri-urban Can Tho, Vietnam (2010)
    Conference Proceeding

  • Modelling costs for water and sanitation infrastructure: Comparing sanitation options for Can Tho, Vietnam cover

    Modelling costs for water and sanitation infrastructure: Comparing sanitation options for Can Tho, Vietnam (2011)
    Conference Proceeding

Legal and regulatory arrangements

  • Exploring smart enforcement in urban sanitation cover

    Exploring smart enforcement in urban sanitation (2017)
    Report | Report Summary

  • Guidance for exploring legal and policy aspects of urban sanitation and hygiene cover

    Guidance for exploring legal and policy aspects of urban sanitation and hygiene (2016)
    Report | Report Summary

  • Strengthening governance arrangements for small city and town sanitation cover

    Strengthening governance arrangements for small city and town sanitation (2015)
    Report

  • Strengthening governance arrangements for small city and town sanitation in Sumatra, Indonesia – a selection of key themes for local governments and policy makers cover

    Strengthening governance arrangements for small city and town sanitation in Sumatra, Indonesia – a selection of key themes for local governments and policy makers. (2015)
    Project Brief

  • Legal and institutional arrangements for urban sanitation and hygiene in Bhutan cover

    Legal and institutional arrangements for urban sanitation and hygiene in Bhutan (2012)
    Report

Governance of decentralised systems

  • How we define safely managed and why it matters for FSM cover

    How we define ‘safely managed’ and why it matters for FSM (2019)
    Conference Poster

  • Increasing local government responsibility for communal scale sanitation Part 1: Review of national program guidelines and two city case studies cover

    Increasing local government responsibility for communal scale sanitation Part 1: Review of national program guidelines and two city case studies (2017)
    Report | Journal Paper

  • Increasing local government responsibility for communal scale sanitation Part 2: Using Regional Budget (APBD) to support post-construction sustainability of communal sanitation cover

    Increasing local government responsibility for communal scale sanitation Part 2: Using Regional Budget (APBD) to support post-construction sustainability of communal sanitation (2017)
    Report

  • Community Sanitation Governance: Investigating Effective Governance for Successful Long-Term Operation of Community Scale Wastewater Systems in Indonesia cover

    Community Sanitation Governance: Investigating Effective Governance for Successful Long-Term Operation of Community Scale Wastewater Systems in Indonesia
    Website

Sanitation service delivery

  • Urban sanitation manual

    Urban Sanitation in Low-income Communities: A manual for city governments in Bangladesh (2022)
    Manual

  • Cover of the Treatment technologies in practice On-the-ground experiences of faecal sludge and wastewater treatment report

    Treatment technologies in practice On-the-ground experiences of faecal sludge and wastewater treatment (2021)
    Report (English) | Report (Spanish) | Report (Portuguese)

  • Scheduled emptying services as an entry point for change [Summary] cover

    Scheduled emptying services as an entry point for change (2019)
    Report Summary | Report | Presentation

  • Faecal sludge reuse in Birendranagar, Nepal: A case study of the world health organisation’s multiple barrier approach cover

    Faecal sludge reuse in Birendranagar, Nepal: A case study of the world health organisation’s multiple barrier approach (2018)
    Journal Paper

  • A guide to septage transfer stations. Provides information on the salient aspects of selecting, designing, building, operating and maintaining a septage transfer station (Summary) cover

    A guide to septage transfer stations. Provides information on the salient aspects of selecting, designing, building, operating and maintaining a septage transfer station (Summary) (2015)
    Report Summary | Report

  • Sludge removal enterprises in Indonesia: factors affecting entrepreneurial success cover

    Sludge removal enterprises in Indonesia: factors affecting entrepreneurial success (2018)
    Journal Paper

  • Research Report 3: Motivators and barriers for water and sanitation enterprises in Indonesia cover

    Research Report 3: Motivators and barriers for water and sanitation enterprises in Indonesia (2015)
    Report | Report Summary (English) | Report Summary (Bahasa Indonesia)

  • Enterprise in WASH cover

    Enterprise in WASH
    Website

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