{"product_id":"9781137415431","title":"Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePalgrave Studies in World Environmental History: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePooley, S.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003eCape 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2014-09-19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781137415431\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1057\/9781137415448\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 216cm x140cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 315\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Palgrave Macmillan UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47451880226956,"sku":"9781137415431","price":49.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781137415431.jpg?v=1775925008","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781137415431","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}