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A Word from the Editor

This is my first issue as Editor of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP), and I would like to take this opportunity to share some important news with our readers. REEP published its first issue in early 2007; thus, with this issue, the journal has completed its ninth full year. Robert Stavins was the founding Editor, with Charles Kolstad and me serving as the founding Co-Editors. Rob Stavins served as Editor for 3 years, until Fall 2009, at which point Charlie Kolstad took over, serving as Editor for more than 5 years. The informal understanding has always been that editors would serve for 3–5 years and then serve as Co-Editors for a few years after that. Thus, Rob Stavins stepped down as a Co-Editor at the end of 2013. On January 1, 2015, I became Editor and Charlie Kolstad transitioned from Editor to a CoEditor. Denny Ellerman and Richard Newell continue as Co-Editors, and Matt Kahn remains Features Editor. Suzy Leonard has served as Managing Editor this entire time and continues in that role. Suzy does much more than manage the operations of the journal. Each article is heavily edited by her in an effort to make what we publish lucid and broadly accessible. Having a competent Managing Editor such as Suzy is vital to the efficient operation of the journal. Since January 2015, Martina Gambaro has been providing support to Suzy and me for the management of proposals submitted to REEP. As our readers know, REEP was created to fill the significant gap that exists between the popular press and scholarly environmental and resource economics journals. This is why, over the last 9 years, REEP has sought to attain several diverse goals: to synthesize and integrate lessons learned from active lines of environmental economic research; to provide economic analysis of environmental policy issues; to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas among the various subfields and perspectives of environmental economics; to offer readers an accessible source for state-of-the-art thinking; to suggest directions for future research; to provide insights and readings for classroom use; and to address issues relating to the environmental economics profession. Thanks to the creativity and hard work of the two previous Editors and their Co-Editors, I believe most of these goals have been attained. These achievements are reflected, at least in part, by the impact factor for REEP, which varies from year to year but continues to be strong. Keep in mind that the 2-year impact factor for year x is the total number of citations in year x (anywhere) to REEP articles published in year x-1 and x-2 divided by the total number of REEP articles published in years x-1 and x-2. The 5-year 161