Successful and cost-effective implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) will depend on a deep understanding of the WFD’s economic dimensions. Eduard Interwies, Britta Pielen, Benjamin Görlach, and R. Andreas Kraemer have co-authored a chapter about these critical economic considerations and implications in a policy handbook on the WFD. Drawing from the 2004 economic analysis of the WFD, the authors examine the current and future challenges of integrating a full economic perspective into the WFD’s implementation.

The 2nd, fully updated edition of Handbook for the EU-Water Framework Directive has been published in 2006. It comprises 9 chapters from 37 authors – five of them members of the Ecologic Team.

The Handbook can be purchased for €86, from the publishing house Erich Schmidt Verlag.