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Sammanfattning

Relatively little research has been conducted to date on farmer attitudes towards the use of fertilisers from resource oriented sanitation systems. This study employed a psycho-sociological approach to identify factors that encourage, or discourage, negative and positive attitudes to human waste recycling among farmers in southern India. A survey involving face-to-face interviews was performed with 120 randomly sampled farmers, taking into account the following factors: gender, age, religion, caste, type of farming, farm size, annual income and farming history. Variations in variables (x(2) and ANOVA) were considered statistically significant if p-value was

Nyckelord

Sustainable sanitation; Nutrient recycling; Survey; Faecophobia; Willingness-to-use; Psycho-sociological study

Publicerad i

Science of the Total Environment
2017, volym: 581-582, sidor: 885-896

SLU författare

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG12 Hållbar konsumtion och produktion
SDG15 Ekosystem och biologisk mångfald

UKÄ forskningsämne

Övrig annan samhällsvetenskap

Publikationens identifierare

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.044

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/82731