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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
- Environmental Economist
- Economist
- Natural Resource Economist
- Marine Resource Economist
- Environmental Protection Economist
- Energy Economist
- Ecological Economist
- Agricultural Economist
Tasks for “Natural Resource Economist”
- Assess the costs and benefits of various activities, policies, or regulations that affect the environment or natural resource stocks.
- Develop programs or policy recommendations to achieve environmental goals in cost-effective ways.
- 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.
- Develop environmental research project plans, including information on budgets, goals, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.
- Develop economic models, forecasts, or scenarios to predict future economic and environmental outcomes.
- Interpret indicators to ascertain the overall health of an environment.
- Examine the exhaustibility of natural resources or the long-term costs of environmental rehabilitation.
- Develop programs or policy recommendations to promote sustainability and sustainable development.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to communicate economic and environmental study results, to present policy recommendations, or to raise awareness of environmental consequences.
- Develop systems for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting environmental and economic data.
- Conduct research to study the relationships among environmental problems and patterns of economic production and consumption.
- Write research proposals and grant applications to obtain private or public funding for environmental and economic studies.
- Write technical documents or academic articles to communicate study results or economic forecasts.
- Write social, legal, or economic impact statements to inform decision-makers for natural resource policies, standards, or programs.
- Collect and analyze data to compare the environmental implications of economic policy or practice alternatives.
- Demonstrate or promote the economic benefits of sound environmental regulations.
- Monitor or analyze market and environmental trends.
- Identify and recommend environmentally-friendly business practices.
- Perform complex, dynamic, and integrated mathematical modeling of ecological, environmental, or economic systems.
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- Mainframe computers
- 10-key calculators
- Computer data input scanners
- Desktop computers
- Personal computers
- Laptop computers
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- C
- General algebraic modeling system GAMS
- Minitab
- MySQL
- Microsoft Office
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Econometric Software LIMDEP
- Formula translation/translator FORTRAN
- Camfit Data Limited Microfit
- Microsoft Access
- Global Insight AREMOS
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Visual Basic
- Microsoft Outlook
- SPSS
- Estima Regression Analysis of Time Series RATS
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- StataCorp Stata
- SAS
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Aptech Systems GAUSS
- Quantitative Micro Software EViews