Harley Johansen, Ph.D.

College of Science
Department of Geography
Department Head & Professor

Campus Locations
Moscow

With UI Since
1981

Office: McClure 203
Phone: 208-885-6217
Email: johansen@uidaho.edu
Mailing Address:
c/o Department of Geography
P.O. Box 443021
Moscow, Idaho 83844-3021

Ph.D. Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974
M.S. Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1969
B.A. Geography, minor Geology, Wisconsin State University, River Falls, 1967

I grew up in a Danish immigrant community in rural Wisconsin and developed a strong interest in rural social and economic trends and in the Baltic and Scandinavian region. I have worked with communities in Idaho and elsewhere on strategies for local economic development. I have been fortunate to have had Fulbright fellowship grants to work in this region at universities in Finland and Russia and an additional placement in the new country of Macedonia. I have also had numerous research grants for work on economic development strategies and business location trends in rural USA and in the Nordic and Baltic region. I have worked with communities in Idaho and elsewhere on strategies for local economic development.
I am currently working on research funded by NSF on adaptation to climate change in development planning in high latitude municipalities in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia. Another current project funded by the U.S. Department of State is on ethnic integration in the labor force of new companies in various settings in Macedonia. This project may be extended to the wider Balkan region.

Selected Publications

Johansen, H.E. “Automatic for the People: Survival Strategies of Neste OY of Finland.” The Financial Times: FDI Magazine, August, 2009.
Johansen, H.E. “Private Enterprises Rise from Soviet Ashes.” The Financial Times: FDI Magazine, March, 2008.
Johansen, H.E. and A. Panova. “Adaptation and Survival of Early FDI firms in Post-Soviet Space: St. Petersburg and Baltic Country Locations.” Chapter in Reponen, T. and K. Liuhto, eds. Future Competitiveness of the EU and its Eastern Neighbors. Turku: Pan European Institute. 2007.
Johansen, H.E. “Country Risk and Foreign Direct Investment in Russia and other Transition Countries” The Financial Times: FDI Magazine, November, 2006.
Johansen, H.E. “Ethnic Dimensions and Economic Development in Macedonia’s Municipalities,” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2004.
Johansen, H.E., F. Snickars, and I. Steinbuka . “Nordic Investment in the Former Soviet Baltic Frontier: a Survey of Firms and Selected Case Studies” Geografiska Annaler vol. 82 B, March, 2001.