Burning Table Mountain
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Burning Table Mountain
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Author : S. Pooley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-19
Burning Table Mountain written by S. Pooley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with History categories.
Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications, both intentional (forestry) and unintentional (biological invasions). In all the diverse visions people have formed for Table Mountain, aesthetic and utilitarian, fire has been regarded as a central problem. This book shows how scientific understandings of fire in fynbos developed slowly in the face of strong prejudices. Human impacts were intensified in the twentieth century, which provides the temporal focus for the book. The disjunctures between popular perception, expert knowledge, policy and management are explored, and the book supplements existing short-term scientific data with proxies on fire incidence trends recovered from historical records.
Burning Table Mountain
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Author : Simon Preston Pooley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Burning Table Mountain written by Simon Preston Pooley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Cape Peninsula (South Africa) categories.
"In Burning Table Mountain the author tackles the environmental and social challenges of fire management on the wildland-urban interface of South Africa\2019s Cape Peninsula, where a UNESCO World Heritage Site for Nature protects the unique fynbos vegetation and incorporates the iconic Table Mountain, and abuts the suburbs, townships and informal settlements of South Africa\2019s parliamentary capital. He combines narrative, the history of ecological science in the region and the role of fire in fynbos ecology, to provide the first integrated history of wildfire and its management on the Cape Peninsula. He reflects on the need to use a holistic approach to understanding the range and conjunctions of causes that conspire to cause large fires and increase fire incidence over time. This book will demonstrate the contribution environmental history can make, through combining scientific and social approaches, to understanding past environments and managing the environment today. It is a seminal contribution to a neglected area of South African history, but also offers an important contribution to global histories of fire"--
Burning Table Mountain
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Author : S. Pooley
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-19
Burning Table Mountain written by S. Pooley and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with History categories.
Cape Town's iconic Table Mountain and the surrounding peninsula has been a crucible for attempts to integrate the social and ecological dimensions of wild fire. This environmental history of humans and wildfire outlines these interactions from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications, both intentional (forestry) and unintentional (biological invasions). In all the diverse visions people have formed for Table Mountain, aesthetic and utilitarian, fire has been regarded as a central problem. This book shows how scientific understandings of fire in fynbos developed slowly in the face of strong prejudices. Human impacts were intensified in the twentieth century, which provides the temporal focus for the book. The disjunctures between popular perception, expert knowledge, policy and management are explored, and the book supplements existing short-term scientific data with proxies on fire incidence trends recovered from historical records.
Proceedings
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Proceedings written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Forest ecology categories.
Proceedings Of The Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Proceedings Of The Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Forests and forestry categories.
Proceedings Of The 13th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference
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Author : Kristina Frances Connor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Proceedings Of The 13th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference written by Kristina Frances Connor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Forests and forestry categories.
Proceedings Of The Eleventh Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference
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Author : Kenneth W. Outcalt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Proceedings Of The Eleventh Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference written by Kenneth W. Outcalt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Forests and forestry categories.
Revised Land And Resource Management For The Cherokee National Forest
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Author : United States. Forest Service. Southern Region
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Revised Land And Resource Management For The Cherokee National Forest written by United States. Forest Service. Southern Region and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Cherokee National Forest (Tenn.) categories.
National Park Science
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Author : Jane Carruthers
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-17
National Park Science written by Jane Carruthers and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-17 with History categories.
This book explains the changing philosophies and permutations in research and management of South Africa's national parks during the twentieth century.
Chattahoochee Oconee National Forests
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Author : United States. Forest Service. Southern Region
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Chattahoochee Oconee National Forests written by United States. Forest Service. Southern Region and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Chattahoochee National Forest (Ga.) categories.