Framework Proposal for Achieving Smart and Sustainable Societies (S3)

Abstract

This article introduces a Smart and Sustainable Societies (S3) framework, based on what is necessary to achieve the UN agenda by 2030. The proposed model is based on the integration of three smart strategies: (1) water provision that consists of the use of greywater and rainwater; (2) sanitation provision that comprises the nutrients recovery from excreta and organic solid waste and; (3) resource-oriented agriculture that conceives the use of the water provision system for the production of food with the use of nutrients recovered from the sanitation system. The S3 framework has the potential to increase the well-being, human development, water availability, food safety, poverty alleviation, and healthy environments of societies through the provision of safely managed basic services as well as the recycling of nutrients and water to achieve sustainability at household and community levels.

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“…The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines on its perspectives for the year 2030 that the use of technologies such as integrated pest and nutrient management, conservation agriculture and organic agriculture could contribute to making agriculture more sustainable [1]. On the other hand, ONU directives for sustainability puts an important objective into the optimization of the resources used in agriculture [2,3]. In order to achieve those goals, the implementation of smart farming in terms of introducing technology to improve different agricultural processes has been pointed out as a key aspect [4,5].…”