19th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control

The 19th International Conference on Wetland Systems for  (ICWS2024) will take place in Chania, Greece, providing a platform for scientists and practitioners to exchange knowledge and advance understanding of treatment wetlands. Conference topics will cover wetlands in harsh and urban environments, wetlands for circular economy and resource recovery, intensified and hybrid wetlands, removal of emerging contaminants, wetland co-benefits and multifunctionality, process understanding and modelling, case studies, monitoring and remote sensing, conservation and restoration, and economic aspects of wetland systems.

Proposed Themes:

1. Wetlands in Harsh Environments: Treatment wetlands in hot, arid, tropical, and cold climates; wetlands in isolated, remote, or insular areas.

2. Wetlands in Urban Environments: Integration of wetlands in cities; wetlands combined with other nature-based solutions (green walls, roofs, bioswales) for urban water management and circular cities.

3. Wetlands for a Circular Economy: Roles in water reuse, agronomic resource recovery, biomass production, and the bioeconomy.

4. Intensified Wetlands: Aerated wetlands, hybrid wetlands, and microbial fuel cell wetlands.

5. Emerging Contaminants: Removal of persistent and emerging organic compounds, microplastics, pesticides, metals, and their effects on wetlands, biodiversity, and human health.

6. Co-benefits and Multifunctionality: Ecosystem services (biodiversity, carbon capture), water-energy-food nexus, and social benefits (landscape, public participation, education, policy, planning).

7. Process Understanding and Modelling: Advances in microbiology, biogeochemistry, fluid flows, tracer tests, multi-phase interactions, and design modelling approaches.

8. Case Studies: Wetlands treating agricultural runoff, sludge, industrial wastewater, stormwater, combined sewer overflow, and domestic wastewater.

9. Monitoring and Remote Sensing: Sensors, real-time monitoring, online process control, data management, remote sensing, and spatial-temporal information.

10. Conservation and Restoration: Natural and constructed wetlands for ecosystem restoration, habitat creation, and biodiversity conservation.

11. Economics: Economic aspects, cost-benefit analyses, and advantages over conventional technologies (CAPEX/OPEX).

• Margit Kõiv-Vainik – University of Tartu, Estonia

• Florentina Zurita – University of Guadalajara, Mexico

• Pedro Carvalho – Aarhus University, Denmark

• Tjaša Griessler Bulc – University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

• Bernhard Pucher – BOKU University, Austria

• Joan Garcia – Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain

• Tahra Alrashdi – Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

• Katharina Tondera – Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, France

• Giuseppe Cirelli – University of Catania, Italy

• Yaqian Zhao – Xi’an University of Technology, China

• Fabio Masi – Iridra Srl, Italy