Wetland Contracts: Voluntary-Based Agreements for the Sustainable Governance of Mediterranean Protected Wetlands

The WETNET project (2016–2019), co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the Interreg Med Programme, aims at ensuring higher coordination between different levels of spatial planning and stakeholders engaged into wetland management processes, whilst limiting conflicts between conservation issues and economic activities. In order to achieve these goals, WETNET has tested in nine EU-Mediterranean wetlands a voluntary-based multi-stakeholder agreement (“Wetland Contract”) as governance tools for the sustainable management of protected wetlands. This paper presents the final outputs and outcome of the project, in order to foster the capitalization and dissemination at Pan Mediterranean level.