Publications Scientifiques

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.·
De l'éditeur : « Ce livre édité présente la première collection d'études de cas et de projets de recherche sur la technologie durable des zones humides artificielles pour la gestion des eaux usées dans les climats chauds et arides. Il s'agit du premier travail de ce type qui résume en une seule référence les expériences et les connaissances internationales actuelles sur la mise en œuvre de cette solution fondée sur la nature dans ces conditions climatiques diverses et souvent difficiles. Il comble les lacunes pertinentes de la littérature fragmentée et limitée en fournissant des informations et une documentation intégrées sur la faisabilité de cette technologie verte. Le livre présente l'efficacité du traitement des installations de zones humides artificielles et les résultats de la recherche dans 29 pays d'Amérique du Sud, d'Afrique, d'Asie et d'Océanie, tout en couvrant diverses applications telles que les eaux usées domestiques et municipales, divers effluents industriels et les boues municipales. De nombreux exemples et études de cas démontrent le potentiel de cette technologie à contribuer à mieux résoudre les problèmes de pénurie d'eau et de ressources limitées en eau douce grâce à une gestion circulaire des effluents traités, par exemple la réutilisation dans l'irrigation.... (Il) démontre le caractère durable et les avantages que la technologie des zones humides peut apporter aux régions à faible revenu aux climats chauds/secs...

2020
Global Water Forum, Agriculture - Environment - Perspectives, 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 plant 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 M. Nelson, « 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 ».