Description
Conduct research, prepare reports, and develop plans to address economic issues involving natural resources, energy, climate change, and environmental policy. Collect and analyze environmental and economic data using sampling techniques, valuation methods, and econometric models.
- • Study environmental, economic, and statistical data on climate, energy, water, land use, and biodiversity.
- • Advise businesses, governments, and NGOs on environmental-economic relationships, sustainability, and compliance.
- • Compile, analyze, and report data to explain environmental-economic trends and forecast policy impacts using models and statistical techniques.
- • Formulate recommendations, policies, or market-based plans (e.g., carbon pricing, cap-and-trade) to address environmental problems.
- • Develop environmental-economic guidelines and standards and positions used in forecasting and policy design.
- • Testify at regulatory or legislative hearings on the effects of environmental regulations and climate policy, presenting cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses.
- • Lead and supervise environmental economics research projects and junior analysts or students.
- • Forecast supply, demand, and depletion of natural resources and value ecosystem services and externalities.
- • Teach theories, principles, and methods of environmental and resource economics.
- • Provide litigation support on environmental damages, natural resource injuries, or valuation; serve as an expert witness.
- • Assess socioeconomic and distributional impacts of environmental policies, taxes, and regulations.
- • Conduct research on environmental economic issues and publish findings in reports, policy briefs, and peer-reviewed journals.
- • Communicate the economic impacts of environmental policies to the public and stakeholders.
- • Review and critique environmental policy analyses, impact statements, and related documents.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
