Dr. Kelsey M. Johansen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Eastern Finland’s Business School (Joensuu Campus). She is cross appointed to the UEF WATER and the Tourism Business Research Groups. Her postdoc focuses on understanding bluespaces as sites of engagement in Water Recreation, Well-Being, and Tourism in the Finnish Lakeland Region.

Dr. Kelsey M Johansen specializes in the amenity, experiential, economic, and societal value of blue spaces and trails for individuals, businesses, communities, and society, particularly from the perspective of recreation, well-being, and tourism. As a broadly trained social scientist, she focuses on projects that activate community assets to develop sustainable recreation and tourism products and engages in knowledge mobilization and translation within and across sectors using a community-centred, service-focused, and solution-oriented lens

Topic areas

• Blue Recreation and Tourism
  
• Trail-based Recreation and Tourism
  
• Wellbeing Recreation and Tourism; and
  
• Rural and Community-Driven Economic Development through Outdoorsport,
• Outdoor Recreation and Leisure, and Nature-Based and Wilderness Tourism

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