Browse by Career Cluster

The National Career Clusters® Framework serves as an organizing tool for programs, curriculum design and instruction. Career Clusters contain occupations in the same field of work that require similar skills. They can help focus plans towards obtaining the necessary knowledge, competencies, and training for success in a particular career pathway.

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Careers centered on regulating and managing the impacts of both natural processes and human activities, such as resource production and consumption.
This Sub-Cluster involves developing and enforcing policies to protect all ecosystems, including space, air, land, and water, from natural disasters, pollution, and degradation. This field focuses on conserving natural habitats and biodiversity and applying scientific and engineering principles to solve environmental problems and improve climate resilience.
Example programs of study:
  • Climate Resilience
  • Sustainable Communities
CodeOccupation
11-9041.00Architectural and Engineering Managers
11-9041.01Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers
19-1029.00Biological Scientists, All Other
13-1041.00Compliance Officers
19-1031.00Conservation Scientists
17-2199.03Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar
17-2199.00Engineers, All Other
13-1041.01Environmental Compliance Inspectors
33-2011.00Firefighters
33-3031.00Fish and Game Wardens
13-1041.04Government Property Inspectors and Investigators
19-4044.00Hydrologic Technicians
19-1031.03Park Naturalists
19-1031.02Range Managers
13-1041.07Regulatory Affairs Specialists
19-3099.00Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other
17-2199.11Solar Energy Systems Engineers
17-2199.10Wind Energy Engineers

Source: National Career Clusters® Framework by Advance CTE (2024 edition).