Environmental Economists
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.
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Annual Salary
$115,440/ year
Median wage · BLS🇺🇸 USA
What You'll Actually Do
The core tasks and responsibilities that fill a typical day.
- Prepare and deliver presentations to communicate economic and environmental study results, to present policy recommendations, or to raise awareness of environmental consequences.
- Monitor or analyze market and environmental trends.
- Demonstrate or promote the economic benefits of sound environmental regulations.
- 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.
- 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.
- Develop systems for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting environmental and economic data.
- 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.
- Collect and analyze data to compare the environmental implications of economic policy or practice alternatives.
- Perform complex, dynamic, and integrated mathematical modeling of ecological, environmental, or economic systems.
- Conduct research to study the relationships among environmental problems and patterns of economic production and consumption.
- 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 programs or policy recommendations to achieve environmental goals in cost-effective ways.
- 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 promote sustainability and sustainable development.
- Teach courses in environmental economics.