Description
Conduct economic analysis of environmental protection and natural resource use—air, water, land, and renewable energy—to evaluate costs, benefits, incentives, and risks. Apply economic theory, statistics, and modeling to assess environmental impacts, inform policy and investment, and support sustainable outcomes.
- • Prepare and deliver presentations on study results and policy recommendations.
- • Monitor and analyze environmental and market trends.
- • Interpret indicators to assess environmental and economic conditions.
- • Identify and recommend cost-effective, environmentally responsible business practices.
- • Quantify and communicate the economic benefits of environmental regulations and conservation.
- • Write technical reports, policy briefs, and academic articles.
- • Draft social, legal, and economic impact statements for resource policies and programs.
- • Develop research proposals and grant applications for environmental economics projects.
- • Analyze resource exhaustibility and the long-term costs of rehabilitation and restoration.
- • Design systems and protocols for collecting and analyzing environmental and economic data.
- • Plan research projects, including budgets, goals, timelines, and deliverables.
- • Build economic models, forecasts, and scenarios for environmental outcomes.
- • Collect and analyze data comparing environmental implications of policy or practice alternatives.
- • Perform integrated modeling of ecological, environmental, and economic systems.
- • Study relationships between environmental problems and patterns of production and consumption.
- • Research topics such as alternative fuels, land use, conservation, and pollution control.
- • Develop policy and program recommendations to achieve environmental goals cost-effectively.
- • Conduct cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analyses of policies, regulations, and projects.
- • Develop strategies to promote sustainability and sustainable development.
- • Teach or guest lecture in environmental economics.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
