Trade Environmental Assessment Model (TEAM)
Environmental Economic Impacts
TEAM is a suite of software tools developed by Abt Associates for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) National Center for Environmental Economics to assess the environmental impacts of international trade agreements.
The ECONOMIC resolution is 4 digit NAICS sector level.
The ENVIRONMENTAL resolution TEAM currently analyzes are four separate environmental release and resource use categories: air, water, and carbon dioxide pollutants along with energy consumption by fuel type.
The GEOGRAPHIC resolution is the state level.
This tool is an exciting, and likely the first, applied environmental economic impact calculation tool. Imagine for a moment a community considering the development of an industrial park with a certain mix of industries. Wouldn’t it be useful to estimate the environmental economic impact this development could have on a regional community. TEAM can assist in this evaluation.
The EPA has done an excellent job in development, analysis, and peer review. The model is based on standard economic methodology, grounded with sources such as Duchin and Steenge, Miller and Blair, Leontief, and the National Research Council among others.
Further, as a result of the model design, outputs dovetail with; transportation, economic, land use, and environmental impact models as part of the final economic/environmental impact deliverables.
