On September 5th, 2022 the NEXUS-NESS coordinator prof. Fernando Nardi was invited to talk at the interdisciplinary hybrid workshop “Untangling the role of ecosystems and their services in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus”, organized by University of Oulu (Finland) and Water Harvesting Lab-UNIFI. The speech was focused on the implementation of the WEF-E (E stands for Environment, Economy, Engaging society) Nexus in the Nexus Ecosystem Labs (Italy, Spain, Egypt, Tunisia).
The aim of the workshop was to leverage different perspectives on the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus to further define the key research and practical questions on the inclusion of Ecosystems in the Nexus, and to create a shared strategy for future research efforts.
This 3-hour workshop has promoted a collaborative scientific dialogue among several research groups leading to the production of a collaborative synthesis paper and the organisation of a Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems session in an upcoming international conference (i.e. Dresden Nexus Conference, EGU 2023). The results of the workshop also feed into the joint work of the COST Action Nexus-Net, which is currently developing a survey to gather insights on Nexus definition and applications from real-world case studies.