Constructed Wetlands for Wastewater Treatment in Hot and Arid Climates

Dr Stefanakis is Assistant Professor at the School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Circular Economy and Sustainability’, and of the Springer Book Series with the same title, as also Associate Editor in other journals. He is European Climate Pact Ambassador appointed by the European Commission. He is an Environmental Engineer and Researcher focusing on water engineering, specifically on nature-based solutions and ecological engineering. He also studies the content and realization of circular economy across different sectors. He has designed, managed, and built several constructed wetlands facilities for wastewater management around the world. In the past, he worked as Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Brighton (UK), the University of Beira Interior (Portugal), the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ (Germany), and the Democritus University of Thrace (Greece). He has also beenemployed by a Greek and a German multinational company as professional engineer.His publication record includes 42 articles in scientific journals, more than 50 papers in scientific conferences, 4 books and several book chapters.

• Chapter 1. Constructed wetlands as a green and sustainable technology for domestic wastewater treatment under the arid climate of rural areas in Morocco (Laila Mandi).- Chapter 2. Efficiency of constructed wetlands and wastewater stabilization ponds for wastewater treatment in northern Algerian Sahara (Khaled Bouchama) .- Chapter 3. A review of constructed wetlands types and plants used for wastewater treatment in Egypt (Mohamed S. Gaballah).- Chapter 4. Two decades of experience on Nature-Based Solutions for wastewater treatment in Egypt, Palestine and Tunisia (F. Masi).- Chapter 5. Constructed Wetlands for wastewater management in Egypt: an overview of 30-years experiences in small / medium-size treatment plants (Hussein I. Abdel-Shafy).- Chapter 6. Constructed wetland as an efficient technology for the treatment of urban/industrial wastewater in the arid regions: Morocco as a model (Ayoub El Ghadraoui).- Chapter 7. Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands for horticulture wastewater treatment under a hot climate in Ethiopia (Frank van DIEN).- Chapter 8. Constructed Wetlands in a community setting in Mombasa, Kenya (Sarah den Haring).- Chapter 9. Performance of Constructed Wetlands in a hot tropical climate: the case of Tanzania (Jamidu H.Y. Katima).- Chapter 10. Constructed wetlands lessons from Israel, Jordan and Palestine: the effect of plants and filter media on CW performance (Hassan Azaizeh).- Chapter 11. Performance of decentralized Vertical Flow Constructed Wetlands for reuse in agricultural irrigation in Jordan: enhancing nitrogen removal (Ghaida Abdallat).- Chapter 12. Constructed wetlands for sustainable wastewater treatment in Oman: experiences from research and case studies (Alexandros I. Stefanakis).- Chapter 13. Constructed Wetlands for Sustainable Wastewater Treatment – Case Studies from Pakistan (Atif Mustafa).- Chapter 14. Constructed wetland case studies for municipal and glass industry wastewater treatment in Iran (Amir Gholipour).- Chapter 15. Research and case studies of Sludge Treatment Wetlands in hot and arid climates: experiences and opportunities for sustainable sludge management (Alexandros I. Stefanakis).- Chapter 16. Full-scale experiences of arid and semi-1 arid land-based decentralized constructed wetlands in India and China (Meera Keraliya).- Chapter 17. Performance assessment of Constructed Wetland in a semi-arid region in India employing SWOT analysis (Kirti Avishek).- Chapter 18. Novel media and unit configurations in advanced Constructed Wetlands: case studies under hot climate in Thailand (Thammarat Koottatep).- Chapter 19. Treatment Wetlands in Atacama 1 Desert, Chile: experiences and lesson learnt from wastewater treatment and reuse (Ismael Vera-Puerto).- Chapter 20. Wastewater Gardens systems in Yucatan, Mexico; northwest Australia; northern Algeria and southern Iraq (Mark Nelson).- Chapter 21. Selected Constructed Wetlands case studies in Africa, Asian and Latin American countries (M.A. El-Khateeb).