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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
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Palgrave studies in world environmental history.
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| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
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PART I. FIRE AT THE CAPE FROM PREHISTORY TO 1900 -- 1. Fire at the Cape : From Prehistory to 1795 -- 2. Fire at the Cape : British Colonial Rule, 1795-1900 -- PART II. FYNBOS AND FIRE RESEARCH MANAGEMENT, C. 1900-1993 -- Science, Management, and Fire in Fynbos, 1900-45 -- 4. Science, Management, and Fire in Fynbos : 1945-99 -- PART III. FIRE ON THE CAPE PENINSULA, 1900-2000 -- 5. Fire Geography and Urbanisation on the Cape Peninsula -- 6. Conserving Table Mountain -- 7. Afforestation, Plant Invasions and Fire -- 8. Socio-Economic Causes of Fires : Population, Utilisation and Recreation -- 9. Fire on the Cape Peninsula : 1900-2000 -- Appendix 1: Cape Peninsula vegetation -- Appendix 2: Fire Causes. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-290) and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Wildfires -- South Africa -- Cape Peninsula -- History.
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Wildfires. |
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South Africa -- Cape Peninsula. |
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History. |
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Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- Environmental conditions.
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Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- History.
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Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa) -- Environmental conditions.
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Table Mountain (Western Cape, South Africa) -- History.
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Wildfires -- Social aspects -- South Africa -- Cape Peninsula -- History.
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Social aspects. |
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South Africa. |
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Human ecology -- South Africa -- Cape Peninsula -- History.
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Human ecology. |
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Cape Peninsula (South Africa) -- Social conditions.
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African history -- Republic of South Africa. |
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Social impact of disasters -- Republic of South Africa. |
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Historical geography -- Republic of South Africa. |
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Social & cultural history -- Republic of South Africa. |
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HISTORY -- Modern -- General. |
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa. |
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HISTORY -- Social History. |
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NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Ecology. |
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Social conditions. |
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South Africa -- Table Mountain (Western Cape) |
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Feuerökologie. |
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Kap der Guten Hoffnung -- Region. |
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Tafelberg Kapstadt. |
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African history -- Republic of South Africa. |
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Social impact of disasters -- Republic of South Africa. |
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Historical geography -- Republic of South Africa. |
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Social & cultural history -- Republic of South Africa. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pooley, Simon Preston, 1970- Burning Table Mountain 9781137415431 (DLC) 2014022927 (OCoLC)881655991 |
| ISBN |
9781137415448 (electronic book) |
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1137415444 (electronic book) |
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9781137415431 |
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1137415436 |
