CLOSING THE LOOP:A SYSTEMS THINKING LED SUSTAINABLE SANITATION PROJECT IN AUSTRALIA
Keywords:
Sustainability, Systems Thinking, Action research, Urine DiversionAbstract
This paper will explain a research project being carried out in Sydney, Australia at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) highlighting the systems thinking principles and action research methodology being adopted in this project. UTS is set to participate in an Australia-first research project, led by the Institute of Sustainable Futures (ISF), exploring the use of innovative urine diverting toilets in an institutional setting. A UTS Challenge Grant (an internal grant scheme to promote innovative collaborative research) has been awarded to the project which will enable safe nutrient capture and reuse from urine diverting toilets installed on campus for a trial period. The Challenge Grant has some enthusiastic industry partners including the local water utility Sydney Water; the sanitaryware manufacturer CaromaDorf; the Nursery and Garden Industry Association; government partners (NSW Department of Health, and City of Sydney) and the UTS Facilities Management Unit. Researchers from the University of Western Sydney and University of New South Wales in Australia as well as Linkoping University in Sweden are collaborators in this research.Published
2010-07-16
How to Cite
Sankaran, S., Abeysuriya, K., Gray, J., & Kachenko, A. (2010). CLOSING THE LOOP:A SYSTEMS THINKING LED SUSTAINABLE SANITATION PROJECT IN AUSTRALIA. Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the ISSS - 2010, Waterloo, Canada, 54(1). Retrieved from https://journals.isss.org/index.php/proceedings54th/article/view/1415
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Socio-Ecological Systems