Dr. Larry Swanson - New Research on Our Maturing
Tri-State Region
Friday, May 18th - 3:45pm
Dr. Larry D.
Swanson is Director of the O’Connor Center for the Rocky
Mountain West and head of its
"Regional Economy" program.
Economic change in the region, implications of this change for
community
and regional development, the region's evolving trans-border
relationship, and
changing economy-environment relations in a region renowned for its
high
quality environment and abundant natural resources, are focuses of the
program.
With assistance from
several major foundations,
Swanson designed and developed a web-based information and analysis
system to
assist in evaluating sub-state regional economies throughout the
western United States. The
system referred to as READ - the Regional Economies Assessment Database
-
is used in organizing and conducting area economic “peer
reviews” whereby the
performance of an area economy is evaluated against those of many other
areas
with similar characteristics. READ is distributed via the
Internet to
development practitioners, businesses, and regional planning
organizations
throughout the region.
Swanson was
appointed to the Center in 1994 to develop and head the
Center’s Regional
Economy program. Prior to this, he was
Director of Economic Analysis of UM's Bureau of Business and Economic
Research
and Associate Professor of Management for six years. Prior to
his work at the University of Montana, Swanson was an economic
consultant for over ten years, both independently from his office in
Lincoln, Nebraska, and with a Washington, D.C., firm. Swanson has a
doctoral degree
in regional economics, public resource management, and community and
regional
planning from the University of Nebraska
and an undergraduate degree in journalism and business.
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