Burning Table Mountain [electronic resource] : An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula / by S. Pooley.

Pooley, S.
Burning Table Mountain
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781137415448 978-1-137-41544-8
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/3653
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2014.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 315 p. online resource.
Dizi
Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History, 2730-9754
Özet, vb.
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.
Konu
Imperialism.
Human geography.
Public health.
Social history.
International relations.
Conservation biology.
Ecology .
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Human Geography.
Public Health.
Social History.
International Relations.
Conservation Biology.