EES specializes broadly in the application of economics to environmental and natural resource issues.  Specific environmental and natural resource economics services offered by EES include: 

• Assessing natural resource damages as a result of oil spills, hazardous substance releases, coral-reef groundings, forest fires, and the disposal of animal wastes
• Reviewing/critiquing Trustee assessments of natural resource damages as a result of oil spills, hazardous substance releases, coral-reef groundings, forest fires, and the disposal of animal wastes
• Reviewing proposed regulations and guidance for assessing natural resource damages
• Developing guidance and providing training on assessing natural resource damages
• Collecting and evaluating existing information on the characteristics and use of recreation areas
• Identifying and evaluating relevant valuation studies in the economic literature for transfer to natural resource damage applications
• Estimating nonmarket values for recreation activities
• Analyzing contingent-valuation and travel-cost data on the value of recreation activities
• Using conjoint analysis and habitat equivalency analysis (HEA) to determine the appropriate scale of compensatory restoration actions for losses of natural resource services
• Evaluating conceptual and empirical issues associated with estimating nonuse values
• Using hedonic price method to estimate reductions in property values attributable to oil spills and hazardous-substance releases