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A Nexus Approach for Sustainable Development How to Integrate and Balance Water, Soil and Waste Expertise When Realizing the Corresponding Nexus Approach

A Nexus Approach for Sustainable Development : How to Integrate and Balance Water, Soil and Waste... [The water-soil-waste nexus is more relevant than ever. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) covering food, water, climate and biodiversity can all significantly be served by applying wastewater and compost to soils, thereby potentially increasing food production, combating water scarcity while higher contents of soil organic matter are effective for climate mitigation and preserving biodiversity. The hydrology and soil science disciplines produce enormous amounts of methods and data, but the interaction between both disciplines is, unfortunately, rather limited. Interdisciplinarity, let alone transdisciplinarity, tends to suffer. UNU-FLORES initiated reports on 17 case studies from all over the world dealing with wastewater application to agricultural soils. These highly informative studies showed that the water-soil-waste nexus is still quite skewed with major emphasis on waste composition and quality focused on agricultural production, including health and safety, but hardly any information on hydrology and soils. The cases also indicated that policy studies focusing on rules and regulations are still in an infant stage, the more so since waste application to soils not only involves health risks but also faces unique emotional and psychological barriers. Successful waste application systems to the soil can only be developed with true and genuine engagement of stakeholders to the research process as part of transdisciplinary case studies. Presenting successful results of such case studies to the policy arena, based on a thorough analysis of both technical and socio-economic aspects, are potentially quite effective and can also be the source of innovative research ideas.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Nexus Approach for Sustainable Development How to Integrate and Balance Water, Soil and Waste Expertise When Realizing the Corresponding Nexus Approach

Editors: Hülsmann, Stephan; Jampani, Mahesh
Bouma, Johan
A Nexus Approach for Sustainable Development — Nov 11, 2020
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-57529-8
Pages
15 –23
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-57530-4_2
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Abstract

[The water-soil-waste nexus is more relevant than ever. UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) covering food, water, climate and biodiversity can all significantly be served by applying wastewater and compost to soils, thereby potentially increasing food production, combating water scarcity while higher contents of soil organic matter are effective for climate mitigation and preserving biodiversity. The hydrology and soil science disciplines produce enormous amounts of methods and data, but the interaction between both disciplines is, unfortunately, rather limited. Interdisciplinarity, let alone transdisciplinarity, tends to suffer. UNU-FLORES initiated reports on 17 case studies from all over the world dealing with wastewater application to agricultural soils. These highly informative studies showed that the water-soil-waste nexus is still quite skewed with major emphasis on waste composition and quality focused on agricultural production, including health and safety, but hardly any information on hydrology and soils. The cases also indicated that policy studies focusing on rules and regulations are still in an infant stage, the more so since waste application to soils not only involves health risks but also faces unique emotional and psychological barriers. Successful waste application systems to the soil can only be developed with true and genuine engagement of stakeholders to the research process as part of transdisciplinary case studies. Presenting successful results of such case studies to the policy arena, based on a thorough analysis of both technical and socio-economic aspects, are potentially quite effective and can also be the source of innovative research ideas.]

Published: Nov 11, 2020

Keywords: Hydrology; Soil sciences; Case studies; Compost; Organic waste

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