Policy Brief // Water, Wetlands and Nature-based Solutions in a Nexus Context in the Mediterranean

Wetlands are at the interface of land and water (including seas) and they allow for important exchanges between terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. 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.