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