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Job Description
Conduct economic analysis related to environmental protection and use of the natural environment, such as water, air, land, and renewable energy resources. Evaluate and quantify benefits, costs, incentives, and impacts of alternative options using economic principles and statistical techniques.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 19-3011.01
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Environmental Economists”.
Also Known As…
- Environmental Economists
- Senior Economist
- Resource Economist
- Principal Research Economist
- Principal Associate
- Natural Resource Economist
- Economist
- Marine Resource Economist
- Environmental Protection Economist
- Environmental Economist
- Energy Economist
- Ecological Economist
- Agricultural Economist
Tasks for “Environmental Economist”
- Develop systems for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting environmental and economic data.
- Develop programs or policy recommendations to achieve environmental goals in cost-effective ways.
- Assess the costs and benefits of various activities, policies, or regulations that affect the environment or natural resource stocks.
- Conduct research on economic and environmental topics, such as alternative fuel use, public and private land use, soil conservation, air and water pollution control, and endangered species protection.
- Write research proposals and grant applications to obtain private or public funding for environmental and economic studies.
- Identify and recommend environmentally-friendly business practices.
- Develop economic models, forecasts, or scenarios to predict future economic and environmental outcomes.
- Conduct research to study the relationships among environmental problems and patterns of economic production and consumption.
- Write social, legal, or economic impact statements to inform decision-makers for natural resource policies, standards, or programs.
- Write technical documents or academic articles to communicate study results or economic forecasts.
- Collect and analyze data to compare the environmental implications of economic policy or practice alternatives.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to communicate economic and environmental study results, to present policy recommendations, or to raise awareness of environmental consequences.
- Examine the exhaustibility of natural resources or the long-term costs of environmental rehabilitation.
- Develop environmental research project plans, including information on budgets, goals, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Monitor or analyze market and environmental trends.
- Demonstrate or promote the economic benefits of sound environmental regulations.
- Perform complex, dynamic, and integrated mathematical modeling of ecological, environmental, or economic systems.
- Develop programs or policy recommendations to promote sustainability and sustainable development.
- Interpret indicators to ascertain the overall health of an environment.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop computers
- Mainframe computers
- Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Computer data input scanners
- 10-key calculators
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Minitab
- SAS
- Econometric Software LIMDEP
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- StataCorp Stata
- MySQL
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Office
- Estima Regression Analysis of Time Series RATS
- SPSS
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Camfit Data Limited Microfit
- Microsoft Outlook
- Global Insight AREMOS
- Aptech Systems GAUSS
- General algebraic modeling system GAMS
- Quantitative Micro Software EViews
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Access
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