Burning Table Mountain
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Author |
: S. Pooley |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 293 |
Release |
: 2014-09-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137415448 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137415444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Burning Table Mountain by : S. Pooley
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.
Author |
: Dale A. Johnson |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2008-08-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781435739925 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1435739922 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fire on the Mountain by : Dale A. Johnson
Biography of experiences by an American living in Southeast Turkey and Northern Iraq during and after the first Gulf War.
Author |
: Edward Abbey |
Publisher |
: Rosetta Books |
Total Pages |
: 222 |
Release |
: 2011-08-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780795317392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0795317395 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fire on the Mountain by : Edward Abbey
A New Mexico man faces off against the government in a battle over his land in this novel by the author of Desert Solitaire. After nine months away at school, Billy Vogelin Starr returns home to his beloved New Mexico—only to find his grandfather in a standoff with the US government, which wants to take his land and turn it into an extension of the White Sands Missile Range. Facing the combined powers of the US county sheriff, the Department of the Interior, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the US Air Force, John Vogelin stands his ground—because to Vogelin, his land is his life. When backed into a corner, a tough old man like him will come out fighting . . . Fire on the Mountain is a suspenseful page-turner by “one of the very best writers to deal with the American West”—the acclaimed author of such classics as The Monkey Wrench Gang and the memoir Desert Solitaire (The Washington Post). “Abbey is a fresh breath from the farther reaches and canyons of the diminishing frontier.” —Houston Chronicle “The Thoreau of the American West.” —Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove
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Total Pages |
: 508 |
Release |
: 1977 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D02996285U |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5U Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the Symposium on the Environmental Consequences of Fire and Fuel Management in Mediterranean Ecosystems, August 1-5, 1977, Palo Alto, California by :
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 644 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015055713914 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the ... Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by :
Author |
: Kenneth W. Outcalt |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 638 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D029963169 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the Eleventh Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by : Kenneth W. Outcalt
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Total Pages |
: 140 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D02964917B |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7B Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings by :
Author |
: Kristina Frances Connor |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 652 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D02835513J |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (3J Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the 13th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by : Kristina Frances Connor
Author |
: William L. Baker |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 636 |
Release |
: 2009-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D029146915 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes by : William L. Baker
Fire Ecology in Rocky Mountain Landscapes is the first comprehensive review of scientific research on fire in Rocky Mountain ecosystems emphasizing the landscape scale. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with fire and fire management, including academic and agency scientists; natural resource professionals; and researchers, professors, and students involved with environmental science, land management, and resource management.
Author |
: James D. Haywood |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 634 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: MINN:31951D02977115Q |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5Q Downloads) |
Synopsis Proceedings of the Tenth Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference by : James D. Haywood