About Us

Resource Dimensions operating as the research arm of its predecessor, 4Ever Land Conservation Associates, first served clients from offices in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, California, New York, and Edinburgh Scotland. Since 1995, co-founder Dr. Julie Ann Gustanski has transformed the firm into a dynamic, multidisciplinary economic and policy consulting practice focused on issues of land use, natural resource management, community sustainability and environmental policy with over 30 partners and associates in offices in 10 states and the UK. On average, our principals and key associates each have more than 25 years of experience within their respective fields.

While remaining true to our roots, Resource Dimensions has expanded to include a full-compliment of services grounded in qualitative research methods. Based in policy and resource social sciences, such methods work hand-in-hand to provide complementarity and depth to quantitative analyses. Areas of express expertise includes collaborative decision-making processes, focus and working groups, interviews, conflict resolution, citizen juries, facilitation, and public involvement — with particular emphasis in diverse multi-cultural communities.

Resource Dimensions’ is serious about ensuring that our work provides clients with credible, rigorous, and relevant analyses, information, and products. We achieve this by implementing integrated whole-systems thinking and state-of-the art methodologies throughout our work. Our team is broadly trained at advanced degree levels in the use of qualitative data analysis methods as text-based deconstruction, content, comparative, and ethnographic analysis, as well as applied quantitative statistical analysis methods.

Our team of national and international experts from fields as economics, planning, law, natural resource management, geography, agriculture, forestry, ecology, biology, sociology, conservation sciences, and public policy, are committed to bringing an introspective, multidisciplinary approach to all clients and projects. We provide critical thinking, objectivity, dedication, and responsiveness essential to sound analysis, effective problem solving, and planning for long-term sustainability.