Rainer Marggraf

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Rainer Marggraf (born September 28, 1949 in Wolfsburg ) is a German university professor and environmental economist at the Georg August University of Göttingen .

Life

Marggraf first studied law and sociology in Heidelberg, Munich and Marburg (1969–1975). From 1975 to 1980 he studied economics at the University of Heidelberg, during which he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Agricultural Policy and Sociology at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Heidelberg . He graduated from the economics degree in 1980. From 1981 to 1985 he worked as a research assistant at the chair for international economic and development policy in Heidelberg, where he also received his doctorate in 1985. From 1985 to 1991 he was a university assistant at this chair. After completing his habilitation in 1991, he was awarded the Venia Legendi for economics. He taught macroeconomics , microeconomics , agricultural economics , environmental economics , resource economics and welfare economics in Heidelberg .

After a brief activity as government director at the administrative school of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Altenholz , he switched to a professorship for economics at the Institute for Transport Science at the University of Hamburg in 1993 . There he gave lectures on allocation theory , transport science , economic policy and environmental policy . In 1993 he was offered a professorship at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . Since October 1994, he has been head of the environmental and resource economics department of today's Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. He is a second member of the Göttingen Faculty of Economics.

Since 1998 Marggraf has been a member of the board of the Research and Study Center for Agriculture and Environment (ZLU) of the Göttingen Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and since 2000 a member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Sustainable Development (IZNE). He was Dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences until March 31, 2007 and has been Dean of Finance since then. Since 2010 he has been the spokesman for the doctoral program “Biodiversity and Society” and, from February 1, 2010, spokesman for the Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG).

Marggraf is a liaison professor at the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , since 2000 a member of the national expert group for the Convention on Biological Diversity of the BMU, since 2001 deputy chairman of the Research Center for International Agricultural and Economic Development Heidelberg, since 2003 a member of the expert group in-situ Conservation and on-farm management of the BMVEL and since 2006 member of the Soil Protection Commission of the Federal Environment Agency.

He is a member of the Society for Social Sciences in Agriculture (GeWiSoLa) and the Association for Social Policy (Committee for Developing Countries).

Scientific publications (extract)

  • J. Barkmann, R. Marggraf: The long-term protection of biological diversity - lessons from market ethics. In: Poesis & Practice. Volume 3, 2004, pp. 3-21.
  • J. Barkmann, R. Marggraf: Compensation for the planet. In: Political Ecology. Volume 109, 2008, pp. 24-26.
  • J. Barkmann, S. Cerda, R. Marggraf: Interdisciplinary analysis of images of nature: Necessary prerequisites for the economic evaluation of the natural environment. In: Environmental Psychology. Volume 9, 2005, pp. 10-29.
  • A. Fischer, SK Hespelt, R. Marggraf: Demand for ecological goods in agriculture - the Northeim project. In: Agriculture. Volume 52, No. 8, 2003, pp. 386-395.
  • O. Gans, R. Marggraf: Cost-benefit analysis and economic policy assessment Vol. I: Welfare measurement, business investment criteria. Springer, Berlin 1997.
  • B. Gerowitt, J. Isselstein, R. Marggraf: Rewards for Ecological Goods - Requirements and Perspectives for Agricultural Land Use. In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. Volume 98, 2003, pp. 541-547.
  • R. Krause, R. Marggraf, K. Meyer: Can environmental economics take intrinsic value into account? In: Journal for Environmental Policy and Environmental Law. Volume 31, 2008, pp. 293-313.
  • R. Marggraf: Comparative assessment of agri-environmental programs in Federal States of Germany. In: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment. Volume 98, 2003, pp. 507-516.
  • R. Marggraf: International transfer payments for the protection of biodiversity. In: Yearbook for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management. Volume 54, 2003, pp. 311-318.
  • R. Marggraf: Nature conservation from an economic point of view. In: M. Oldiges (Ed.): Perspektiven des Naturschutz. (= Leipzig publications on environmental and planning law. Volume 4). 2003, ISBN 3-8329-0146-9 , pp. 145-156.
  • R. Marggraf: The economic approach to the conservation of biodiversity - explained using the example of the Convention on Biological Diversity. In: D. Cansier et al. (Ed.): The challenge of the environment - interdisciplinary target conception and its implementation. Metropolis, Marburg 2003, pp. 125-154.
  • R. Marggraf: Socio-economic aspects of the protection of biodiversity. In: Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (Ed.): Biodiversity: What do we know and understand about biodiversity? Stechlin 2003, ISBN 3-00-012422-5 , pp. 63-70.
  • R. Marggraf, I. Bräuer, A. Fischer, S. Menzel, U. Stratmann, A. Suhr: Economic evaluation in environmentally relevant decisions - possible uses of willingness to pay analyzes in politics and administration. (= Ecology and Economic Research. Volume 55). Metropolis Verlag, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89518-472-1 .
  • R. Marggraf, S. Streb: Economic evaluation of the natural environment: theory, political significance, ethical discussion. Spectrum Academic Publishing 1997.
  • M. Markussen, R. Buse, M. Costa, H. Garrels, S. Menzel, R. Marggraf (Eds.): Valuation and Conservation of Biodiversity - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Convention on Biological Diversity. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2005.
  • J. Yan, J. Barkmann, AK Zschiegner, R. Marggraf: The Skeptics' Challenge for Sustainable Tourism in the Southwestern China Biodiversity Hotspot: a Choice Experiment Approach. In: Journal of China Tourism Research. Volume 4, 2008, pp. 3-21.

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SURNAME Marggraf, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university professor and environmental economist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsburg