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