Implementing environmental technologies in development situations: The example of ecological toilets

Davies-Colley, Christian; Smith, Willie

doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2011.12.002

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“…People might misunderstand and not consider to adopt the ETS because the technology is not yet tested in the community. Davies-Colley [10] suggests that the ETS should be promoted through awareness programs to overcome the lack of trust of the community to this newly introduced technology.…”

Section: Community's Perception and Attitude Towards Using Human Excretamentioning

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Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Eco-Toilet Systems in Rural Areas: A Case Study in the Philippines

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Death due to diseases from poor sanitation is a serious global issue and it has become one of the priorities of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (i.e., SDG6). This SDG6 aims to provide adequate improved sanitation facilities to over 2.3 billion people around the world who have no or limited access to sanitation, wherein more than two-thirds of these un-served people live in rural areas. One of the strategies for addressing this global issue is through emerging sustainable sanitation technologies such as the Eco-Toilet System (ETS), which uses small amounts of water or is even waterless and recovers nutrients from human waste thereby promoting water-energy conservation, improved sanitation and supplement nutrients essential to plant growth. Social acceptance, however, remains a key barrier in deploying the ETS. A social perception study on the use of the ETS was conducted in a rural community in Mulanay, Philippines. The researchers analyzed the proposed combined technology acceptance model and theory of planned behavior (C-TAM-TPB) using multiple linear regression and the Mann-Whitney U-test to evaluate the perceptions and attitudes of a rural community towards the use of the ETS. The results showed that more than 50% of the respondents are aware of the nutrient value of human excreta and believe that it is usable as fertilizer; however, less than 25% prefer to utilize it for food production. Results also indicate that the behavior of the users is driven by their attitude (β = 0.420, p-value < 0.010). Moreover, the Mann-Whitney U-test results revealed that people who are knowledgeable of the nutrient value of human excreta and are willing to collect them have more positive attitude towards the ETS.

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Section: Community's Perception and Attitude Towards Using Human Excretamentioning

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Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Eco-Toilet Systems in Rural Areas: A Case Study in the Philippines

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“…Como herramientas de trabajo para lograr cambios relevantes en términos de adopción de tecnología y prácticas ambientalmente amigables, se han propuesto realizar análisis etnográficos que permitan entender la manera en las personas hacen las cosas, educar, desarrollar habilidades, motivar el uso continuado del comportamiento y generar nuevo conocimiento (15), se requiere un modelo flexible que evalúe las diferentes etapas y fases adaptándose a la respuesta de la comunidad y no de manera lineal (16).…”

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Sanitario seco: una alternativa para el saneamiento básico en zonas rurales

García-Ubaque¹,

Vaca-Bohórquez²,

García-Ubaque³

2014

Rev. salud pública

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“…All of these processes are dependent on timber, oil, and mineral extraction and refinement, as all contribute to the construction and formation of a sanitation system. The sanitation infrasystem as it is constructed, establishes a system of resource usurpation with reuse appearing as marginal and secondary functions-a trend that is attempting to be changed (Davies-Colley & Smith, 2012;Lüthi et al, 2011;Quitzau, 2007;Kar & Chambers, 2008). The UNESCO (2012) report notes that agriculture accounts for 70% of water use at the municipal and industrial level, while "the use of modern flush toilets, ranks among the major sources of water demand in urban areas."…”

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From Primitive Accumulation to Modernized Poverty: Examining Flush toilets through the Four Invaluation Processes

Dunlap

2017

Forum for Social Economics

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This paper examines the normalized power and social effects of flushtoilets. Beginning by laying a theoretical foundation with the concepts of structural violence, primitive accumulation, and modernized poverty, the section continues by outlining William Dugger's four invaluation processes as a framework of approach. Then, a brief history of flush-toilets is sketched before applying the four invaluation processes: contamination, subordination, emulation, and mystification. Flushtoilets are a complex infrasystem that appear to have a surreptitious organizational, social, and ecological effect that is compounded by some of the formulations and practices within the development industry. Notably with the United Nation "sanitation ladder," Gary White and Matt Damon's NGO Water.org and Damon's subsequent "toilet strike." Providing a reassessment of the social power inherent in flush-toilets, this paper contends that the flush-toilet infrasystem is an accomplice in infrastructural violence and can also be seen as aiding a strategy of primitive accumulation.

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Implementing environmental technologies in development situations: The example of ecological toilets

Cited by 11 publications

References 25 publications

Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Eco-Toilet Systems in Rural Areas: A Case Study in the Philippines

Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Eco-Toilet Systems in Rural Areas: A Case Study in the Philippines

Sanitario seco: una alternativa para el saneamiento básico en zonas rurales

From Primitive Accumulation to Modernized Poverty: Examining Flush toilets through the Four Invaluation Processes

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