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Peter Klepeis

Peter Klepeis

Associate Professor of Geography
Geography , 305 Ho Science Center
p 315 2286797

Degree

 BA Colgate University 1994; MA, PhD Clark University 1997, 2000

Teaching Experience

 Peter Klepeis teaching Geog 251 in the geography department's GIS lab
GEOG 121: Human Impact on the Environment

GEOG 205: Climate and Society

GEOG 251: Environmental Risk Communication

GEOG 324: International Environmental Policy

GEOG 325: Water and Society

GEOG 326: Environmental Hazards

GEOG 401: Senior Seminar in Geography

ENST 101: Social Science Perspectives on Environmental Issues

ENST 309: Australian Environmental Issues

ENST 390: Community-based Study of Environmental Issues

ENST 480: Interdisciplinary Investigation of Environmental Issues

Interests

 My research and teaching focuses on nature-society relationships and themes in sustainability science.  Drawing on perspectives from political ecology and environmental history, and bridging traditions in the social and natural sciences, I explore multiple forms of land system change.  Case studies come from Mexico, Chile, Australia, and upstate New York.  Recent projects include the study of tropical deforestation dynamics in the Yucatan Peninsula, forest and rangeland degradation in southern Patagonia, the spread of invasive weeds in eastern New South Wales, and the human dimensions of earthworm invasion in the Adirondack State Park.

Publications

 Klepeis, Peter, Scull, Peter, Lalonde, Tara, Svajlenka, Nicole, and Nicholas Gill. 2013. “Changing Forest Recovery Dynamics in the Northeastern United States” Area, forthcoming.

Wickramasuriya, Rohan, Chisholm, Laurie, Puotinen, Marji, Gill, Nicholas, and Peter Klepeis. 2013. “A Method to Dynamically Subdivide Parcels in Land Use Change Models.” International Journal of Geographical Information Science, forthcoming.

Abrams, Jesse B., Gosnell, Hannah, Gill, Nicholas J., and Peter Klepeis. 2012. "Environmental Implications of Amenity Migration: An International Literature Review".  Conservation and Society 10(3): 270-84.

Klepeis, Peter (Contributing Editor). 2012.  “Geography – Southern Cone”, Handbook of Latin American Studies Volume 67, United States Library of Congress.  University of Texas, pp 177-187.

Wickramasuriya, Rohan, Chisholm, Laurie, Puotinen, Marji, Gill, Nicholas, and Peter Klepeis. 2011. "An automated land subdivision tool for urban and regional planning: concepts, implementation, and testing".  Environmental Modelling and Software 16: 1675-1684.

Seidl, Dara and Peter Klepeis. 2011. "Human dimensions of earthworm invasion in the Adirondack State Park".  Human Ecology  39: 641-655.           

Gill, Nicholas, Klepeis, Peter, and Laurie Chisholm. 2010.  "Stewardship among lifestyle-oriented rural landowners". Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 53(3): 1-18.

Klepeis, Peter, Gill, Nicholas, and Laurie Chisholm. 2009. "Emerging Amenity Landscapes: Invasive Weeds and Land Subdivision in Rural Australia". Land Use Policy 26(2): 380-392.

Klepeis, Peter and Paul Laris. 2008. "Hobby Ranching and Chile's Land Reform Legacy". The Geographical Review 98(3): 372-414.

Klepeis, Peter. 2006. "From Farmers to Satellites: A Human Geography Perspective on Tropical Deforestation". In Tropical Deforestation: Exploring Environmental Challenges, A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, eds. Sharon Spray and Matt Moran Lanham. Roman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 77-101.

Klepeis, Peter.  2006. “Southern Cone Region (South America)”.  In Helmut Geist (ed), The Earth’s Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change.  Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 566-571.

Klepeis, Peter and Paul Laris. 2006. "Contesting Sustainable Development in Tierra del Fuego". Geoforum 37(4): 505-518.

Klepeis, Peter and Paul Laris. 2006. "Land Use History". In Helmut Geist (ed), The Earth's Changing Land: An Encyclopedia of Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 370-372.

Bray, David Barton and Peter Klepeis. 2005. "Deforestation, Forest Transitions, and Institutions for Sustainability in Southeastern Mexico, 1900-2000". Environment and History 11: 195-223.

Klepeis, Peter. 2004. "Forest Extraction to Theme Parks: The Modern History of Land Change in the Region". In Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan: Final Frontiers, ed. B.L. Turner II, J. Geoghegan, and D.R. Foster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 39-59.

Klepeis, Peter and Rinku RoyChowdhury. 2004. "Institutions, Organizations, and Policy Affecting Land Change: Complexity Within and Beyond the Ejido". In Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan: Final Frontiers, ed. B.L. Turner II, J. Geoghegan, and D.R. Foster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 145-169.

Klepeis, Peter, Vance, Colin, Keys, Eric, Macario Mendoza, Pedro, and B.L. Turner II. 2004. "Subsistence Sustained: Swidden or Milpa Cultivation". In Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan: Final Frontiers, ed. B.L. Turner II, J. Geoghegan, and D.R. Foster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 189-206.

Vance, Colin, Klepeis, Peter, Schmook, Birgit and Eric Keys. 2004. "The Ejido Household: The Current Agent of Change". In Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan: Final Frontiers, ed. B.L. Turner II, J. Geoghegan, and D.R. Foster. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 171-187.

Klepeis, Peter. 2003. "Development Policies and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan Peninsula: Centralized and Decentralized Approaches". Land Degradation and Development 14: 1-21.

Klepeis, Peter and Colin Vance. 2003. "Neoliberal Policy and Deforestation in Southeastern Mexico: An Assessment of the PROCAMPO Program". Economic Geography 79(3): 221-240.

Turner II, B.L., Klepeis, Peter, and Laura S. Schneider. 2003. "Three Millennia in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region: Implications for Occupancy, Use, and 'Carrying Capacity'". In Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface, ed. A. Gomez-Pompa, M. Allen, S. Fedick & J. Jimenez-Osornio. New York: The Haworth Press, 361-387.

Geoghegan, J, Cortina Villar, S, Klepeis, P, Macario Mendoza, P, Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y, Roy Chowdhury, R, Turner II, BL, and Vance, C. 2001. "Modeling Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region: Comparing Survey and Satellite Data" Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 85(1-3): 25-46.

Klepeis, P and Turner II, B.L. 2001. "Integrated Land History and Global Change Science: The Example of the Southern Yucatan Peninsular Region Project". Land Use Policy 18(1): 27-39.

Turner II, B.L., Sergio Cortina Villar, David Foster, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Eric Keys, Peter Klepeis, Deborah Lawrence, Pedro Macario Mendoza, Steven Manson, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Audrey B. Plotkin, Diego Pérez Salicrup, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Basil Savitsky, Laura Schneider, Birgit Schmook, Colin Vance.  2001. “Deforestation in the Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region: An Integrative Approach”.  Forest Ecology and Management 154(3): 353-370.