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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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Write technical documents or academic articles to communicate study results or economic forecasts.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Conduct 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.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Collect and analyze data to compare the environmental implications of economic policy or practice alternatives.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Assess the costs and benefits of various activities, policies, or regulations that affect the environment or natural resource stocks.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Prepare and deliver presentations to communicate economic and environmental study results, to present policy recommendations, or to raise awareness of environmental consequences.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Develop programs or policy recommendations to achieve environmental goals in cost-effective ways.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Develop economic models, forecasts, or scenarios to predict future economic and environmental outcomes.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Demonstrate or promote the economic benefits of sound environmental regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Conduct research to study the relationships among environmental problems and patterns of economic production and consumption.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Perform complex, dynamic, and integrated mathematical modeling of ecological, environmental, or economic systems.AI could speed this up a lot
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss24%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
61%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 94% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.