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