Environmental Economists — Tasks

Task statements

• Write technical documents or academic articles to communicate study results or economic forecasts.
• 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.
• Collect and analyze data to compare the environmental implications of economic policy or practice alternatives.
• Assess the costs and benefits of various activities, policies, or regulations that affect the environment or natural resource stocks.
• 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.
• Develop economic models, forecasts, or scenarios to predict future economic and environmental outcomes.
• Demonstrate or promote the economic benefits of sound environmental regulations.
• Conduct research to study the relationships among environmental problems and patterns of economic production and consumption.
• Perform complex, dynamic, and integrated mathematical modeling of ecological, environmental, or economic systems.
• Write social, legal, or economic impact statements to inform decision makers for natural resource policies, standards, or programs.
• Teach courses in environmental economics.
• Develop programs or policy recommendations to promote sustainability and sustainable development.
• Develop systems for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting environmental and economic data.
• Write research proposals and grant applications to obtain private or public funding for environmental and economic studies.
• Examine the exhaustibility of natural resources or the long-term costs of environmental rehabilitation.
• Monitor or analyze market and environmental trends.
• Develop environmental research project plans, including information on budgets, goals, deliverables, timelines, and resource requirements.
• Identify and recommend environmentally friendly business practices.
• Interpret indicators to ascertain the overall health of an environment.