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Maintaining a social license to operate for wastewater-based monitoring: The case of managing infectious disease and the COVID-19 pandemic

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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 320, Issue -, Pages -

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ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115819

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COVID-19; Social license to operate; Wastewater-based epidemiology; Wastewater monitoring and management; Wastewater surveillance; Pandemic

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This paper systematically reviews the processes of building and maintaining the social license to operate wastewater monitoring. It explores the relationship between different stakeholder communities and offers a dynamic model to guide researchers and practitioners.
Wastewater monitoring as a public health tool is well-established and the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has seen its widespread uptake. Given the significant potential of wastewater monitoring as a public health sur-veillance and decision support tool, it is important to understand what measures are required to allow the long-term benefits of wastewater monitoring to be fully realized, including how to establish and/or maintain public support. The potential for positive SARS-CoV-2 detections to trigger enforced, community-wide public health interventions (e.g., lockdowns and other impacts on civil liberties) further emphasises the need to better un-derstand the role of public engagement in successful wastewater-based monitoring programs. This paper sys-tematically reviews the processes of building and maintaining the social license to operate wastewater monitoring. We specifically explore the relationship between different stakeholder communities and highlight the information and actions that are required to establish a social license to operate and then prevent its loss. The paper adds to the literature on social license to operate by extending its application to new domains and offers a dynamic model of social license to help guide the agenda for researcher and practitioner communities.

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