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Burning Table Mountain = an environmental history of fire on the Cape Peninsula /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Burning Table Mountain/ Simon Pooley.
Reminder of title:	an environmental history of fire on the Cape Peninsula /
Author:	Pooley, Simon.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	336 p. :12 b&w, 11 graphs, halftones, 4 maps. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Human ecology - History - South Africa -
Subject:	Cape Peninsula (South Africa) - Environmental conditions. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137415444 (electronic bk.) :

Burning Table Mountain = an environmental history of fire on the Cape Peninsula /
Pooley, Simon.

Burning Table Mountainan environmental history of fire on the Cape Peninsula /[electronic resource] :Simon Pooley. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 336 p. :12 b&w, 11 graphs, halftones, 4 maps. - Palgrave studies in world environmental history.

Electronic book text.

Introduction 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.1900-99 3. 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 Conclusion Appendix 1: Cape Peninsula vegetation Appendix 2: Fire Causes.

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This is an environmental history of humans and wildfire on the Cape Peninsula, from the practices of Khoikhoi herders to the conflagrations of January 2000. The book examines how the region's unique, famously diverse fynbos vegetation has been transformed since European colonial settlement, through urbanisation and biological modifications.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.

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Dr. Simon Pooley is a Junior Research Fellow at Imperial College Conservation Science, UK.

ISBN: 1137415444 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1008861
Human ecology
--History--South AfricaSubjects--Geographical Terms:

1008859
Cape Peninsula (South Africa)
--Environmental conditions.

LC Class. No.: SD421.34.S6 / P66 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 363.37096873

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520 1 $a Burning Table Mountain contributes a fresh and innovative exploration of more than a century of science, history and environmental policy around the emotional topic of fires at the wildland-urban interface. Simon Pooley has produced a book that is not only fascinating, well written and excellently researched, but one which will be regarded as definitive for many years to come. Covering the entire span of settler occupation of the Cape Peninsula but focussing on the 20th century, by deftly weaving a multiplicity of sources, by contextualising fire policy, management and philosophy in the western Cape and beyond, his careful research an immense gap in our understanding of the growth of knowledge about fire but also of South Africa's human history. Through the prism of Table Mountain, Pooley engages with more than a century of controversy among scientists, policy makers and the public about the role of fire in South Africa, particularly in the fynbos of the renowned Cape Floral Kingdom. Pooley's book documents the growth of environmental and ecological knowledge and his work contributes to our scientific and historical understanding of this critically important driver of South Africa's vegetation.' - Jane Carruthers, Emeritus Professor, University of South Africa 'Simon Pooley's Burning Table Mountain is a deeply researched but crisply written study of a flammable landscape and how people have understood, managed, and perhaps mismanaged it. More than a local South African story, it shows how land-managers wrestled with issues that confront mediterranean and semi-arid lands everywhere. An exciting addition to environmental history, history of science, South African history, and the history of fire.' - J.R. McNeill, author of Something New under the Sun and Mosquito Empires 'South Africa is a fire-prone land. Simon Pooley has written an innovative and fascinating study of fire in the Cape Peninsula over the long term. This is the first sustained historical treatment of the subject and it goes some way to answering a key question: have the fires that sear Cape Town become more dangerous to natural fynbos, people and property? In the process, the book tells us a great deal about environmental history, Cape landscapes, forestry, indigenous and exotic plants, South African science and growing ecological understanding. The peninsula is both beautiful and blessed in its biodiversity. But it is crowded by a rapidly expanding city and exotic plants. This is a rich and multi-facetted discussion of the processes, human and natural. that produce fire as well as the means by which it may be controlled.' - Professor William Beinart, University of Oxford 'Ecologists have known for decades that fire is essential for the healthy functioning of fynbos ecosystems. However, fire is a complex and destructive force as well and therefore needs to be carefully managed. Simon Pooley's 'Burning Table Mountain' is the most comprehensive account to date of the development of fire policy in the Cape Floristic Region and provides a detailed description of how fire practices have changed over the last 300 years. Using the Cape Peninsula as the focal area, for which most of the historical data are available, this book synthesises our knowledge of early burning practices undertaken by Khoisan and settler communities at the Cape. It then traces the development of fire research management in the wider Cape Floristic Region and how it is currently practiced. The influence of several important characters and outcomes of key research initiatives are discussed in wonderful detail and woven into a storyline that provides a rich and interesting account of how science and management are inextricably linked. It concludes with a focus on the major fires that occurred at the end of the 20th century on Table Mountain and warns of the potential impact of climate change on fire regimes in the Cape. Burning Table Mountain is essential reading for anyone interested in the complex wildland-urban interface where inappropriate fire management policies and practices have important repercussions for both people and the environment.' - M. Timm Hoffman, University of Cape Town 'In this meticulously researched and lucidly written book, Simon Pooley exposes the reader to the myriad of contradictions and conflicts that arise when northern Europeans colonise a fire-prone ecosystem. Throw into the mix introduced invasive trees, a biota of exceptional diversity and a populace riddled with inequality, arrogance, ingenuity and passion - and what you have is the setting for a riveting tale. Pooley's cogent message is that the fire regime concept - currently couched in biophysical parlance - must embrace the messy world of humans, their values and their institutions. How else can fire be comprehended in the densely populated regions where it holds sway and will continue to do so, despite a plethora of well-intentioned attempts to suppress it? This book is a must-read for social and natural scientists that grapple with the human-wildland interface in the vast areas of the world's fire-prone ecosystems.' - Richard Cowling, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa.
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