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Analyze potential environmental impacts of production process changes, and recommend steps to mitigate negative impacts.
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Industrial Ecologists
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- Identify environmental impacts caused by products, systems, or projects.
- Analyze changes designed to improve the environmental performance of complex systems and avoid unintended negative consequences.
- Identify or compare the component parts or relationships between the parts of industrial, social, and natural systems.
- Research sources of pollution to determine environmental impact or to develop methods of pollution abatement or control.
- Perform analyses to determine how human behavior can affect, and be affected by, changes in the environment.
- Research environmental effects of land and water use to determine methods of improving environmental conditions or increasing outputs, such as crop yields.
- Investigate accidents affecting the environment to assess ecological impact.
- Conduct applied research on the effects of industrial processes on the protection, restoration, inventory, monitoring, or reintroduction of species to the natural environment.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of industrial ecology programs, using statistical analysis and applications.
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Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
- Analyze data to determine validity, quality, and scientific significance and to interpret correlations between human activities and environmental effects.
- Investigate and report on accidents affecting the environment.
- Research sources of pollution to determine their effects on the environment and to develop theories or methods of pollution abatement or control.
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Environmental Economists
- Conduct research to study the relationships among environmental problems and patterns of economic production and consumption.
- Examine the exhaustibility of natural resources or the long-term costs of environmental rehabilitation.
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Atmospheric and Space Scientists
- Research the impact of industrial projects or pollution on climate, air quality, or weather phenomena.
- Estimate or predict the effects of global warming over time for specific geographic regions.
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Environmental Restoration Planners
- Conduct environmental impact studies to examine the ecological effects of pollutants, disease, human activities, nature, and climate change.
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