Key Disciplinary Tools

In addition to being comfortable with the skills presented in previous chapters of this text, environmental professionals should be familiar with a number of common disciplinary tools. Some of these tools are used to quantify the relationship between economics and the environment (cost-benefit analysis). Other tools like carbon footprints, ecological footprints, and life cycle assessments are used to measure human impacts on the environment in non-monetary ways. There is power in numbers and being able to quantify impacts or outcomes using tools like these that can provide the key evidence to catalyze action.

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