Gebundenes Buch

Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation

Beschreibung

Transitioning is a key concept for innovative management in several domains, particularly the challenges emerging from climate change. Transitioning to Clean Water and Sanitation will, thus, contribute to an understanding of how transitions are underway for adapting water and sanitation systems to the projected impacts of climate change, with the aim of ensuring clean water, improved sanitation and proper hygiene conditions for a better protection of health in all parts of the world. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5 °C states that climate-related risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth are projected to increase with a global warming of 1.5°C and to increase further to 2°C. In addition to water- and food-borne diseases, some vector-borne diseases (e.g., malaria and dengue fever) will become more frequent, including potential shifts in their geographical range. Climate change affects health through a range of different pathways amongst which water and sanitation play a major role in disease transmission. The increase of temperature and precipitation in many places in the world affect the transport and dissemination of infectious agents and the growth as well as survival of pathogens and vectors, particularly through water and sanitation systems. Therefore, any development perspective for the sustainable management of water and sanitation systems can no longer ignore the projected impacts of climate change in order to provide innovative solutions and grant successful management. Nor can we ignore the socio-political dimensions entailed therein and the persisting inequalities in the provision of clean water and sanitation across the globe in urban as well as rural areas. Thereby, water may both be the target and the source of conflict. This volume draws on a multi-disciplinary perspective to lay bare the possibilities and challenges for granting access to clean and safe water infrastructures.

Autor

Guéladio Cissé is a Professor of Sanitary Engineering and Environmental Epidemiology. He is also Head of the Ecosystem Health Sciences Unit in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health of the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), University of Basel, Switzerland. Before joining Swiss TPH in 2009, he worked for more than 20 years based in West Africa. Here he held positions such as Head of the National Service for Hygiene and Sanitation in the Ministry of Health in Mauritania; Professor and Head of the Sanitary Engineering Department in an inter-African states engineering school in Burkina Faso; Coordinator of Regional Research Programs on Global Change and Health Linkages and Director of the Swiss Center for Scientific Research (CSRS) in Côte d'Ivoire. For more than 25 years, he has been engaged in eco-epidemiology research, exploring links between water quality, environmental pollution, climate change and environment-sensitive diseases. He teaches and directs research on climate change and health, disasters and public health, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He is the author of several publications, has supervised the work of several young African researchers and has contributed to many international conferences and panels of experts on water, environment, ecosystems, climate change, health and SDGs. He is currently a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II on "Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability" for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), for which there is a call for further efforts in all sectors for transition and transformation. He was a Co-Chair of the 5th World Sustainability Forum organized by MDPI in 2015, among several other contributions to international conferences and initiatives on the topic of the SDGs, including this SDG Book Series "Transitioning to Sustainability".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MDPI AG
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 455g
• ISBN-13: 9783038977742
• ISBN-10: 3038977748
• Artikelnr.: 63458860