Mission
Headwaters Economics is an independent, nonprofit research group. Our mission is to improve community development and land management decisions in the West.

Latest Work

Unemployment in the Past Two Recessions

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Not all counties peformed equally during the past two recessions. Click on the map at right to see trends in annual county unemployment rates from 1991 to 2009. For specific county profiles, visit our EPS-HDT page.

Clean Energy Leadership in the Rockies

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The Clean Energy report and
web page compares how Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are taking advantage of clean energy and energy efficiency opportunities to create green jobs.

The Three Wests: Access to Markets

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This web-based interactive tool helps community leaders learn more about their county and compare it to others. Our research shows that there are Three Wests defined by access to major markets.

Wildfire: Costs of Residential Development

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Several of our studies and a recent white paper show how the combination of continued growth in the wildland urban interface and increasing temperatures could more than double fire suppression costs in the next 15 years.