How do they match: Industrial Ecologists

  • Analyze changes designed to improve the environmental performance of complex systems and avoid unintended negative consequences.
  • Build and maintain databases of information about energy alternatives, pollutants, natural environments, industrial processes, and other information related to ecological change.
  • Forecast future status or condition of ecosystems, based on changing industrial practices or environmental conditions.
  • Investigate the adaptability of various animal and plant species to changed environmental conditions.
  • Investigate the impact of changed land management or land use practices on ecosystems.
  • Perform analyses to determine how human behavior can affect, and be affected by, changes in the environment.
  • Plan or conduct studies of the ecological implications of historic or projected changes in industrial processes or development.