Distributional aspects in environmental policy, environmental valuation, costs of agri-environmental measures and ecological-economic modelling

Peer-reviewed publications

• Cord, Anna F., Kevin Darras, Ryo Ogawa, Luc Barbaro, Charlotte Gerling, Maria Kernecker, Nonka Markova-Nenova, Gabriela Rodriguez-Barrera, Felix Zichner, and Frank Wätzold. (2025). Leveraging Passive Acoustic Monitoring for Result-Based Agri-Environmental Schemes: Opportunities, Challenges and next Steps. Biological Conservation 305:111042. ( Link)
• Hagemann, N., Gerling, C., Hölting, L., Kernecker, M., Markova-Nenova, N.N., Wätzold, F., Wendler, J., Cord, A.F. 2025. Improving result-based schemes for nature conservation in agricultural landscapes—challenges and best practices from selected European countries. Regional Environmental Change, 25(12). (Link)
• Markova-Nenova, N., Engler, J. O., Cord, A. F., Wätzold, F. (2023): Will passive acoustic monitoring make result-based payments more attractive? A cost comparison with human observation for farmland bird monitoring. Conservation Science and Practice. e13003. (Link)
• Becker, N., Farja, Y., Greenfeld, A., Markova-Nenova, N., & Wätzold, F. (2023). A blueprint for addressing conflicts between ecotourism and farming from an economic perspective: The case of wintering crane conservation in the Hula Valley in Israel. Ecological Economics, 209, 107824. (Link)
• Nonka Markova-Nenova, Frank Wätzold, and Astrid Sturm (2023): Optimizing Agri-Environment Schemes for Cost-Effectiveness, Fairness or Both?, QOpen, qoad005, (Link)
• Mary Nthambi, Nonka Markova-Nenova, and Frank Wätzold (2021):Quantifying Loss of Benefits from Poor Governance of Climate Change Adaptation Projects: A Discrete Choice Experiment with Farmers in Kenya, Ecological Economics 171, 106831 (Link)
• Nonka Markova-Nenova and Frank Wätzold: Fair to the cow or fair to the farmer? The preferences of conventional milk buyers for ethical attributes of milk, Land Use Policy (79), 223-239 (Link)
• Nonka Markova-Nenova and Frank Wätzold (2017): PES for the poor? Preferences of potential buyers of forest ecosystem services for including distributive goals in the design of payments for conserving the dry spiny forest in Madagascar, Forest Policy and Economics (80), 71-79 (Link)

Working Paper

• Markova-Nenova, Engler, Cord, Wätzold (2023): A Cost Comparison Analysis of Bird-Monitoring Techniques for Result-Based Payments in Agriculture. MPRA Paper No. 116311 (Link)
• Markova-Nenova, N., Wätzold, F., Sturm, A., 2020. Distributional Impacts of Cost-effective Spatially Homogeneous and Regionalized Agri-Environment Payments. A case study of a Grassland Scheme in Saxony, Germany. MPRA Working Paper No. 104759. (Link)
• Nonka Markova-Nenova and Frank Wätzold (2017): Fairness to dairy cows or fairness to farmers: What counts more in the preferences of conventional milk buyers for ethical attributes of milk? (Link)

Dissertation

• "Distributive aspects in the design of payments for ecosystem services and agri-environmental schemes" (Link)

• Business Administration
• Ökonomie der Landnutzung und Wasserbewirtschaftung