Jaime Nivala – författare

Treatment Wetland Processes, Design, and Implementation presents a state-of-the-art coverage of wetlands applied to the treatment of municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater, combined sewer overflows, sludge and other sources. It builds upon the highly acclaimed previous editions of Treatment Wetlands, but includes a wealth of new information, data, concepts and approaches that are in syntony with the new developments in the field.Focusing on subsurface flow wetlands, the text has been thoroughly revised, fully updated and expanded, including a new and detailed coverage of important treatment wetland variants, such as horizontal flow, vertical flow, French vertical flow, aerated, fill-and-drain, combined sewer overflow and sludge treatment wetlands.Treatment Wetland Processes, Design, and Implementation contains a carefully planned balance between theory and practice, with a clear and didactic presentation of the main concepts, working principles, expected performance, design criteria, construction aspects, and operational guidelines of treatment wetlands with a worldwide perspective on application. The book is an essential source for novice and experienced professionals, researchers, teachers, and students across the globe.KEY FEATURESThe most comprehensive and updated book on subsurface flow treatment wetlandsAvailable in print version and as open-access e-bookWastewater treatment fundamentals applied to treatment wetland process designOver 1,000 pages with information at basic, intermediate, and advanced levelsClear and didactic color artwork, photographs, charts, and summary tablesFully executed practical design examples supported by downloadable spreadsheets

The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change. The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions and practice-oriented governance approaches are developed. This assumption is addressed by providing theoretical insights and empirical evidence pointing particularly at 3 concepts or qualities which are determined here as being central for achieving urban sustainability: resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience. Urban case studies from several international research projects illustrate our conceptual approach of urban transformations towards sustainable development. Thus, the book reaches far beyond a mere additive description of single case studies. It incorporates the results of condensed synthesis, resulting from comparisons and evaluations. It provides, based on cross-cutting reflection of single casesand different scales and methods of analysis, general and transferable findings. They do not only consider the scientific sphere but deliberately go beyond it discussing transferability of knowledge into practice, governance options and the feasibility of policy strategies in order to pave the way for sustainable urban transformations to happen today and in the future.