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Communication and learning for sustainable sewage systems from a perspective of sanitation professionals
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Ingår i: B. Frostell, Å. Danielsson, L. Hagberg, B-O. Linnér, & E. Lisberg Jensen (Red.), Science for sustainable development. Proceedings of the 2nd VHU Conference on science for sustainable development, Linköping, Sweden, 6-7 September 2007.. - 9789163336607
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this paper, we aim to explore how the focus on sustainable development affects municipal communication strategies in the sanitation sector. Efforts to reduce harmful substances in the sewage system have increased the focus on households and their use of chemicals ending up in the sanitary system. Yet the picture of effects of communication and how household habits change is rather vague. The present study has included a questionnaire distributed to a nationwide sample of municipal water and sanitation offices, as well as a focus group interview with sanitation professionals in one of the municipalities. Questions concerning communication strategies as well as expectations on households and on their own work tasks were included. It was found that sanitation professionals related to the concept of sustainable development in their work. The most common communication strategies were written information in different forms. Households used phone or e-mail to contact municipal offices. In the focus group interview, technical solutions were given priority as households were not expected to pay special attention to the sewage system. The view of households was ambivalent, and the issue of household communication was recognised as complex. Much of the current situation and approaches depend on the structure of the current large scale sanitation system, developed for convenience and safety during the last century.
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Engineering sustainable sewage systems
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Ingår i: The sustainable city V. Urban regeneration and sustainability. - 9781845641283 ; , s. 165-174
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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.
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