About the Book
Sustainable Sanitation: Experiences, Challenges and Innovations is a unique collection of articles by scholars from myriad disciplines.
It is another useful addition to the publications on sanitation. There are 17 articles analyzing different aspects of sanitation in the Indian context. Interestingly, more focus is on management of sanitation in rural situations, and ‘education and sanitation’, which are more relevant in the Indian context.
As India is witnessing rapid urbanization, the provision of safe sanitation remains crucial. It is estimated that large proportion of urban dwellers lack access to toilets that provide a full sanitation service chain, including containment, treatment, and end-use treatment and disposal. In the recent years, Government of India has taken sanitation on priority through and several other related planned programmes. These developments indicate that the need for sustainable sanitation has now gained substantial momentum in India.
We sincerely hope that this book will be useful to academicians, researchers and policy-makers in more than one way.
Contents
1 Introduction: Going Beyond Open Defecation Free / V. Basil Hans
2 Culture of Sanitation / V. Basil Hans
3 Markets for Sanitation Services: Policies and Approaches in India / Swetha Loganathan and Joshy Joseph Karakunnel
4 SDG-6: Clean Water and Sanitation / V. Basil Hans
5 The Bloody Truth: Hidden Challenges in Menstruation / Anuhya Korrapati and Gerard Rassendren
6 Purity, Pollution, and Untouchability / V. Basil Hans
7 Sanitation Security for Women in India / Vidya K.
8 Sanitation in India: Revolution, Evolution, and New Challenges / V. Basil Hans
9 Building Environments to Support Sustainability of Improved Sanitation Behaviours / V. Basil Hans
10 The Long-term Safe Management of Rural Shit / V. Basil Hans
11 Sustainable Sanitation in Rural India: A Strategy for Forecoming Quarter of 21st Century / Murty
12 Smart Finance for Rural Sanitation Development / V. Basil Hans
13 Dynamic Perspectives and Expositions of Sustainable Sanitation in India / Binu Kumar B.J.
14 Bindeshwar Pathak: The Messiah of Scavengers / V. Basil Hans
15 Management of Sanitation: Strategies and Technologies / Seema Prabhu S.
16 Education and Sanitation: Trends and Transformation in India / Kalavathi K. Bhat
17 Conclusion: Gaps in Knowledge and Further Research Needed / V. Basil Hans
About the Author / Editor
V. Basil Hans taught Economics at School of Social Work, Roshni Nilaya and St Aloysius College, Mangalore. He retired as Associate Professor from St Aloysius Evening College, Mangalore. Dr Hans has taught MA, MCom, MBA, and MSW students and has also guided MPhil and PhD students.
He is a prolific writer known for his oratory skills, both in English and Kannada. He has earned recognition for his poems, essays and short stories which have also been published in newspapers and magazines. He has written more than 225 research papers and more than 75 books in English and Kannada. His book, Digital Economy: Boon or a Bane is published in nine foreign languages. He is on the editorial board of more than 30 journals. He has presented more than 70 papers in national and international conferences.
Dr Hans has been honoured by Sulabh International for his contribution to Action Sociology. (E-mail: vhans2011@gmail.com)
