Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula
(Part of the Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History Series)
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1349490598
ISBN13:9781349490592
Release Date:January 2014
Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan
Length:315 Pages
Weight:0.84 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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