Profuturus produces research, analysis, and economic impact studies for clients who need rigorous numbers in service of communities and the environments they depend on.
Read our research Start a projectProfuturus was founded on the belief that economics is most useful when it stays close to the questions people actually face — what a project is worth to a community, what a landscape is worth left standing, what a policy costs the people it touches.
We build client-facing deliverables including research, analysis, and economic impact reports, and we take on volunteer work applying the same tools to environmental and social justice questions that rarely get a seat at the table.
A benefit-transfer valuation of a 60-hectare Amazon property, comparing carbon-only, extractive-use, and full ecosystem-service scenarios to inform conservation finance.
An estimate of race-related spending by runners, crews, and volunteers in the San Juan Mountains, and how it ripples through the regional economy.