Water, Wetlands and Nature-Based-Solutions in a Nexus Context in the Mediterranean

Wetlands are among the world’s most productive environments. At the crossroads of key economic sectors, wetlands are wellsprings of biological diversity and provide vital natural resources as well as valuable services to mankind, representing a significant opportunity for “nature-based solutions”.

Taking a Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems (WEFE) Nexus perspective increases the understanding of the interdependencies between wetlands and the water, energy and food sectors. It shows that these sectors are inextricably linked and that actions in any one of them usually have impacts in one or both of the others as well as on ecosystems.