Framework Proposal for Achieving Smart and Sustainable Societies (S 3 )

Thalía Turrén-Cruz and Miguel Ángel López Zavala
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Thalía Turrén-Cruz: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, Mexico
Miguel Ángel López Zavala: Tecnológico de Monterrey, Av. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, Mexico

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 23, 1-14

Abstract: This article introduces a Smart and Sustainable Societies (S 3 ) framework, based on what is necessary to achieve the UN agenda by 2030. The proposed model is based on the integration of three smart strategies: (1) water provision that consists of the use of greywater and rainwater; (2) sanitation provision that comprises the nutrients recovery from excreta and organic solid waste and; (3) resource-oriented agriculture that conceives the use of the water provision system for the production of food with the use of nutrients recovered from the sanitation system. The S 3 framework has the potential to increase the well-being, human development, water availability, food safety, poverty alleviation, and healthy environments of societies through the provision of safely managed basic services as well as the recycling of nutrients and water to achieve sustainability at household and community levels.

Keywords: resource-oriented agriculture; sanitation; SDGs; sustainability; water management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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