Climate Change Impacts on Urban Sanitation: A Systematic Review and Failure Mode Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Climate change will stress urban sanitation systems. Although urban sanitation uses various infrastructure types and service systems, current research appears skewed toward a small subset of cases. We conducted a systematic literature review to critically appraise the evidence for climate change impacts on all urban sanitation system types. We included road-based transport networks, an essential part of fecal sludge management systems. We combined the evidence on climate change impacts with the existing knowledge about modes of urban sanitation failures. We found a predominance of studies that assess climate impacts on centralized sewerage in high-income contexts. The implications of climate change for urban nonsewered and complex, fragmented, and (partially) decentralized sanitation syste

SUBMITTER: Hyde-Smith L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9069703 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature