GEOADAPTIVE, LLC
NEWTON, MA

GeoAdaptive was born as a Research lab out of MIT and Harvard to deal with the challenges brought by rapid urbanization and climate change, developing economic analysis. Research focused on the exploration the future of urban patterns and the resulting consequences that these patterns would have on future levels of sustainability. The efforts consisted of “spatializing” the future, through the development and analysis of urban and regional information systems. GeoAdaptive has worked with agencies, initiatives, organizations, and governments, at a local, state, national and multinational level, providing tools that improve the decision making process in cities and regions, across more than 17 countries in several continents. We help them explore the risks and opportunities associated with future regional change, including conservation and integrated development strategies. At GeoAdaptive, nearly ninety percent of our current work is with repeat clients, demonstrating the incredible trust and sense of camaraderie that is emblematic of our work. Our dedication to research and the application of new technologies keeps our work on the cutting edge, and our track record of successful projects over the past years. The GeoAdaptive team shares a commitment to work closely with our clients and key stakeholders through local and collaborative processes, as well as creating capacity within our client’s organizations. Our design and strategy thinking is based on four principles: empathy, integrated thinking, experimentation, and collaboration. Our work is supported by technologies in natural science, numerical analysis, geographic systems, urban and design planning, public policy, finance, and natural science. GeoAdaptive is a global sustainability research consultancy group specializing in socio-ecological interactions, spatial economics, infrastructure, and land analysis. We help clients solve complex problems by applying advanced geostatistical, spatial econometric (fiscal, economic, and development strategies), and research-based approaches that help them adopt innovative interventions for their territories and assets. Our services support anticipatory and preventive territorial planning and strategic visioning to secure a sustainable future, through the exploration of regional future growth scenarios and in search of productive and sustainable strategies for planning using geographic information systems (GIS), evaluating the environment from a probabilistic perspective. This translates to the geographic examination of problems and challenges, quantifying socioeconomic and environmental relationships and activities. We structure our projects around interdisciplinary principles, which constantly require us to think systemically and across products and analytical processes. For more information download the Company Profile We have been actively collaborating to develop spatial strategies and plans in order to help people improve their livelihood and capture development opportunity. Working with municipal and regional planners, we help guide the development of sustainable urban policy and investment decisions through data driven assessments of current and future development patterns. We support public and private organizations that require advanced geographic and market intelligence solutions that provide a wide variety of analytics to inform planning and strategic programs at different scales We have been actively collaborating to develop spatial strategies and plans in order to help people improve their livelihood and capture development opportunity. Working with municipal and regional planners, we help guide the development of sustainable urban policy and investment decisions through data driven assessments of current and future development patterns. We support public and private organizations that require advanced geographic and market intelligence solutions that provide a wide variety of analytics to inform planning and strategic programs at different scales Currently urban planning and governance is transitioning towards a science-oriented activity. The science of cities is emerging as a new field in professional disciplines and academic research. Cities have become objects of study where natural laws can be discovered and applied. In an era where information is freely floating and automatically generated, new methods for levering big-data—such as data-mining, and citizen or crowd sourcing through social media—are critical information inputs for designing better and updated urban policies. Through its R+D branch, GeoAdaptive devotes considerable resources in developing computational methods and models to harness data and extracts meaningful insights for a precise, inclusive, and intelligent urban development. We have been actively collaborating to develop spatial strategies and plans in order to help people improve their livelihood and capture development opportunity. Working with municipal and regional planners, we help guide the development of sustainable urban policy and investment decisions through data driven assessments of current and future development patterns. We support public and private organizations that require advanced geographic and market intelligence solutions that provide a wide variety of analytics to inform planning and strategic programs at different scales