Editors: Prof. Dr. Rainer Marggraf, Dr. Jörg Cortekar, Dr. Uta Sauer, Dr. Katharina Susanne Raupach

ISSN 2194-1149

The preservation of a healthy environment and the protection of natural resources are two of the major challenges of the 21st century. A series of regulations and guidelines that have been issued in the past, still await implementation - on a national, European, and global level. For this, the insight is needed that to implement these regulations adequately, ecological aspects and economic interests have to be considered together.
With their pubilcation Economic Research Contributions to Environmental Policy, the editors hope to open up the dialogue between science, politics, and administration in various topics concerning environmental policy. This dialogue is aimed at dismantling existing reservations concerning the often quoted economisation of the environment. The individual volumes aim to illustrate where opportunities and limits are in their respective fields, and to contibute to a successful implementation of political programs and regulations through this form.

The editors:
Prof. Dr. Rainer Marggraf is an economist and is among the leading experts in the assessment of non market goods. As head of the department for environmental and reesource economics at the University of Göttingen, he also leads several national and international research projects.
Dr. Jörg Cortekar is a research associate at the department of Economics and Politics of the Climate Service Center in Hamburg. He has a long history of experience in the conduct of projects at the intersection of science and politics. The economic demands of European water policy are among the focus of his work.
Dr. Uta Sauer is a research associate with Prof. Marggraf's department. She has profound knowledge in the areas of participative environmental politicsas well as the application of quantitative and qualitative methods for establishing preferences in the general public within environmental evaluation.
Dr. Katharina Susanne Raupach is a research associate with the division of environment and resource economics of the departments for agricultural economics and rural development at the Georg-August-University Göttingen under Professor Marggraf. After her doctorate thesis about the risk management of mycotoxins, her research focus nowadays is the evaluation of environmental improvements in water policy. Her empirical work focuses on stakeholder and expert interviews.