South Dakota State University Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange Theses and Dissertations 2017 Russian Real Estate Purchases in Finland, 1990-2016 Mika Hasanen South Dakota State University Follow this and additional works at: https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd Part of the Human Geography Commons, and the Physical and Environmental Geography Commons Recommended Citation Hasanen, Mika, "Russian Real Estate Purchases in Finland, 1990-2016" (2017). Theses and Dissertations. 2167. https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/etd/2167 This Thesis - Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. RUSSIAN REAL ESTATE PURCHASES IN FINLAND, 1990 - 2016 BY MIKA HASANEN A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science Major in Geography South Dakota State University 2017 iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would first like to thank my advisor Robert Watrel for guiding me in my thesis work. I would also like to thank the experts at the National Land Survey of Finland who let me use the bureau’s data and helped me with all my questions. I would also like to thank my family who have supported my decision to study abroad. Mika Hasanen iv TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES……………………………………………………………………...vii LIST OF TABLES…………………………………………………………………….….ix ABSTRACT ………………………………………………………………………..……..x Chapter 1: Introduction ................................................................................................... 1 Research Objective and Questions ............................................................................