Wastewater Gardens and Ecotechnic Approaches

M. Nelson and H.L. Bohn, Soil-based biofiltration for air purification: potentials for environmental and space life support application, Journal of Environmental Protection, doi 10.4236/jep.2011, published online.

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Nelson, M., Wolverton, B.C., Plants + soil/wetland microbes: Food crop systems that also clean air and water, Advances in Space Research (2011)47: 582-590, doi:10.1016/j.asr.2010.10.007

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Nelson, M., R. Tredwell, A. Czech, G. Depuy, M. Suraja and F. Cattin, Worldwide Applications of Wastewater Gardens and Ecoscaping: Decentralised Systems which Transform Sewage from Problem to Productive, Sustainable Resource, Environmental Technology Centre, Murdoch University, Fremantle, W.A. July 2006, published in: Decentralised Water and Wastewater Systems : International Conference, Fremantle, Western Australia, 10-12 July 2006, edited by Kuruvilla Mathew, Stewart Dallas, Goen Ho, IWA Publications, London, 2008

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M. Nelson, F. Cattin, M. Rajendran, R. Tredwell and L. Hafouda, Value-adding through creation of high diversity gardens and ecoscapes in subsurface flow constructed wetlandsCase studies in Algeria and Australia of constructed wetland systems, paper presented at the 11th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control November 2008, Indore, India.

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Nelson, M., Finn, M, Wilson, C., Zabel, B., van Thillo, M., Hawes, P., and R. Fernandez, 1999. Bioregenerative recycle of wastewater in Biosphere 2 using a created wetland: two year results, J. Ecological Engineering 13: 189-197.

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Nelson, M., Odum, H.T., Brown, M.T., and A. Alling, 2001. Living off the land: resource efficiency of wetland wastewater treatment, invited paper presented at COSPAR conference, Warsaw, Poland, July, 2000, Advances in Space Research 27(9): 1546-1556.
M. Nelson, S. Silverstone and J. Poynter, 1993. Biosphere 2 Agriculture: Testbed for intensive, sustainable, non-polluting farming systems, Outlook on Agriculture, Vol 13, No. 3, Sept. 1993 pp. 167-174, CAB International, Oxford, U.K. .
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M. Nelson, 1998. Wetland systems for bioregenerative reclamation of wastewater — from closed systems to developing countries, Life Support and Biosphere Science, 5(3): 357-369.

 

 

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