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Burning Table Mountain

An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula de

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Palgrave Macmillan


Collection :

Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History

Paru le : 2014-09-19

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Description
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.
Pages
315 pages
Collection
Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
Parution
2014-09-19
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9781349490592
EAN PDF
9781137415448
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
3
Nombre pages imprimables
31
Taille du fichier
2263 Ko
Prix
52,74 €

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