| 1. |
- Rydhagen, B, et al.
(författare)
-
Engineering sustainable sewage systems
- 2008
-
Ingår i: The sustainable city V. Urban regeneration and sustainability. - 9781845641283 ; , s. 165-174
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban sewage collection is part of an infrastructural system developed during the past century to increase convenience and hygienic standards in households. With the attention on sustainable development growing during the 1980s–1990s, Swedish municipal sanitation professionals began to pay attention to recycling of the nutrients in the sewage. The attempt in this paper is to draw together important thoughts from studies of professions, of communication and of sanitation and other infrastructural sociotechnical systems in an effort to better understand current efforts to increase sustainability in the sewage system in Sweden. It is argued that the momentum of a large sociotechnical system like the sewage network makes it difficult to change the system. However, with the focus on sustainability and on recycling of nutrients, sanitation professionals express an increased need to communicate with users and other actors, in order to reduce harmful substances in the system. In two Swedish municipalities, two different methods to improve the quality of the sewage were tried; source separation of toilet sewage water, and intensive information to households about proper use of the current system. In the former case, existing social and organizational structures were preserved, while the latter case caused increased collaboration with other municipal staff as well as households and other actors.
|
|
| 2. |
- Rydhagen, Birgitta, et al.
(författare)
-
Who Loves Sewage? Matching Expectations on Communication Between Households and Sanitation Professionals
- 2009
-
Ingår i: Guzovic, Zvonimir, Duic, Neven and Ban, Marko (Eds.), Proceedings of 5th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems. - Dubrovnik. - 9789536313983
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Swedish municipalities, householders are addressed as important actors in the efforts to improve the quality of sewage sludge. Householders and sanitation professionals are regarded as integrated and active co-producers of the sanitation system, while limited by the functions offered by the technical and organizational structure. Through interviews with both householders and sanitation professionals, recognition of interdependence was identified in both groups although more communication with counterpart was asked for. If the aim is to increase sustainability in the sanitation system, regardless of technical changes, we argue that two-way communication between householders and sanitation professionals needs to increase and embrace not only advice about choice of products and ways to carry out water related activities, but also planning of activities, feedback on results and other aspects of interest.
|
|
