Curriculum Vitae
Publications
• PEER-REVIEW PUBLICATIONS
Laris, P. and Bakkoury, A. 2008. Nouvelles leçons d'une vieille pratique: Mosaïque du feu dans la savane du Mali. Bois et for ê ts des tropiques 296 (2): 5-16.
Klepeis, P. and Laris, P . 2008. Hobby Ranching, and Chile 's Land Reform Legacy. The Geographical Review. (in press).
Moseley, W. and Laris, P. 2008. Interrogating Past Lives: Questioning Environmental Narratives along the Tra nsition from Development Volunteer to Academic. The Geographical Review 98 (1): 59-81 .
Laris, P. and Wardell, D.A. 2006. Good, bad or “necessary evil?”: reinterpreting the colonial burning experiments in the savanna landscapes of West Africa . Geographical Journal 172(4): 217-290.
Klepeis, P., and Laris, P. 2006. Contesting Sustainable Development in Tierra del Fuego . Geoforum 37 (4): 505-518.
Laris, P . 2005. S patiotemporal problems with detecting seasonal-mosaic fire regimes with coarse-resolution satellite data in savannas. Remote Sensing of Environment 99: 412-424.
Laris, P . 2002. Burning the Seasonal Mosaic: Preventative Burning Strategies in the Wooded Savanna of Southern Mali . Human Ecology 30 (2): 155-186.
• BOOK CHAPTERS
Laris, P. 2006. Managing a burned mosaic: A landscape-scale human ecological model of savanna fires in Mali . In Jay Mistry and Andrea Berardi (eds.) Linking people with nature: lessons from savannas and dry forests . Ashgate Publishing: 155-186.
Laris, P. and Klepeis, P. 2006. Degradation Narratives. In Geist, H. (ed) The Earth's Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Greenwood Publishing Group (pp. 161-164).
Klepeis, P. and Laris, P. 2006. Land-Use History. In Geist, H. (ed) The Earth's Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Greenwood Publishing Group (pp. 370-372).
Klepeis, P. and Laris, P. 2006. The Pristine Myth. In Geist, H. (ed) The Earth's Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Greenwood Publishing Group (pp. 481-484).
Laris, P. 2004. Grounding Environmental Narratives: The Impact of a Century of Fighting Against Fire in Mali . In Moseley, W.G. and B.I. Logan (eds). African Environment and Development: Rhetoric, Programs, Realities Ashgate Publishing: 63-88.
• PUBLICATIONS FORTHCOMING
Klepeis, P. and Laris, P . 2008. Hobby Ranching, and Chile 's Land Reform Legacy. The Geographical Review. (in press).
• PUBLICATIONS IN REVIEW
Laris, P. An anthropogenic escape route from the “Gulliver syndrome” in the West African savanna . Human Ecology ( In review )
• BOOK REVIEWS
Laris, P . A Review of Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe . For Social and Cultural Geography ( forthcoming) .
Laris, P. 2005. A Review of Isle of Fire by Christian Kull for Environmental Conservation 32 (2): 193-4 .
Laris, P. 2006. A Review of French Beans and Food Scares By Susanne Freidberg for The Geographical Review 96 (1): p167-170 .
• PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION
Laris, P. Spatially Explicit Burning Regimes in the West African Savanna. In preparation for the Annals of the A.A.G. (2008)