2022
Chapter in the book "Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment in Hot and Arid Climates", 15 October 2022, pages 357-378.
Nelson M., Cattin F., Tocchetto D., Hafouda L., "Wastewater Gardens Systems in Yucatan, Mexico; Northwest Australia; Northern Algeria and Southern Iraq".
Springer Cham, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, chapter of the book series: Wetlands: Ecology, Conservation and Management (WECM, volume 7), 2022.·
Del editor: "Este libro editado presenta la primera colección de estudios de caso y proyectos de investigación sobre la tecnología sostenible de los humedales artificiales para el manejo de aguas residuales en climas cálidos y áridos. Es el primer trabajo de este tipo que resume en una sola referencia las experiencias y conocimientos internacionales actuales sobre la implementación de esta solución basada en la naturaleza en estas condiciones climáticas diversas y a menudo duras. Cubre la brecha relevante en la literatura fragmentada y limitada al proporcionar información y documentación integradas sobre la viabilidad de esta tecnología verde. El libro presenta la eficiencia de tratamiento de las instalaciones de humedales artificiales y los resultados de la investigación de 29 países diferentes de América del Sur, África, Asia y Oceanía, mientras que cubre diversas aplicaciones, como aguas residuales domésticas y municipales, diversos efluentes industriales y lodos municipales. Muchos ejemplos y estudios de casos demuestran aún más el potencial de esta tecnología para contribuir a abordar mejor los problemas de escasez de agua y recursos limitados de agua dulce a través de la gestión circular de los efluentes tratados, por ejemplo, la reutilización en el riego.... (Esto) demuestra el carácter sostenible y los beneficios que la tecnología de los humedales puede aportar a las regiones de bajos ingresos con climas cálidos / secos...".
2020
Global Water Forum, Agriculture - Environment - Perpectives, 6 August 2020.
Nelson M., "The challenge of managing water and nutrient cycles in a mini-world – the lessons from Biosphere 2".
2017
Journal of Environmental Management, 201 (2017) 120-128, Elsevier, June/October 2017.
Mounir Saggaï M., Ainouche A., Nelson M., Cattin F., El Amrani A., "Long-term investigation of constructed wetland wastewater treatment and reuse: Selection of adapted plants species for metaremediation".
*Due to reasons outside of our control, some errors feature on the technical specifications given on the wetland which served as the basis for this study; they however don't have any impact on the experimental results presented. For instance the system built has a 0% slope inside the system; 2.5 plants minimum per m2 (square meter) with roughly 1/3 deep rooted, 1/3 medium and 1/3 light rooted (as initially planted; it doesn't mean that it is maintained that way) - about 10% of these plants can be and were chosen in this case as test plants, meaning they may not survive initial plantation and must be replaced if they die ; adapted plant species diversity can be significantly further increased.
2014
World Water, Volume 37 (pp. 22-23, 49), Issue 4, July/August 2014.
Nelson M., Cattin F., "Greening the Planet".
2011
Advances
in Space Research 47 (2011) 582-590, Science Direct, October 2010.
Nelson M., Wolverton B. C., "Plants
+ soil / wetland microbes: Food crop systems that also clean air and
water".
2008
IIth
International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control,
Indore, India, International Water Association (IWA), Vikram University
IEMPS, ICWST, November 2008.
Nelson M., Cattin F., M. Rajendran, INRA, "Value-adding
through creation of high diversity gardens and ecoscapes in subsurface
flow constructed wetlands: Case studies in Algeria and Australia of
Wastewater Gardens systems".
2007
II International
Congress SmallWAT07, Sevilla, Spain, Center of New Water Technologies
(Centro de las Nuevas Tecnologías del Agua - CENTA), Ministry of Environment,
on « Sewage water treatment in small communities », November
2007.
Nelson M., Cattin F., Tredwell R., Depuy G, Suraja M., Czech A., "Why
there are no better systems than Constructed Wetlands to treat sewage
water? - Advantages, Issues and Challenges".
2006
Murdoch University, Fremantle, W.A., Australia, Environmental
Technology Centre, International Conference on « Decentralised
Water and Wastewater Systems », July 2006.
Nelson, M., Tredwell R., Czech A., Depuy G., Suraja M. and Cattin
F., « Worldwide Applications of Wastewater
Gardens and Ecoscaping: Decentralised Systems which Transform Sewage
from Problem to Productive, Sustainable Resource ».
2006
Murdoch University, Fremantle, W.A., Australia, Conference
on «Sustainability of Indigenous Communities», July 2006.
Tredwell, R. and Nelson M., «Effective
Approaches for Environmental & Wastewater Management and Training
– The Birdwood Downs Case Studies in the Kimberley Region of
West Australia».
2003
Advances in Space Research, Volume 31, Issue 7, Pages 1799-1804,
2003.
M. Nelson, A. Alling, W. F. Dempster, M. van Thillo and John Allen,
«Advantages of
using subsurface flow constructed wetlands for wastewater treatment
in space applications: Ground-based mars base prototype».
2002
United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Environmental
Technology Centre, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, for Conference
on «Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems», April 2002.
Mark Nelson and Robyn Tredwell, «New
Paradigms: Wastewater Garden, creating urban oases and greenbelts
by productive use of the nutrients and water in domestic sewage».
2001
Advances in Space Research, vol 27, nbr 9: 1546-1556, 2001.
Taken from the COSPAR conference, Warsaw, Poland, July 2000.
Nelson, M., Odum, H.T., Brown, M.T., and A. Alling, "Living
off the land: resource efficiency of wetland wastewater treatment".
1999
Ecological Engineering 13: 189-197, 1999.
Nelson, M., Finn, M, Wilson, C., Zabel, B., van Thillo, M., Hawes,
P., and R. Fernandez, «Bioregenerative
recycle of wastewater in Biosphere 2 using a created wetland: two
year results».
1998
Life Support and Biosphere Science, 5(3): 357-369, 1998.
Nelson, M., «Wetland
systems for bioregenerative reclamation of wastewater - from closed
systems to developing countries».
