Titlebook: Burning Table Mountain; An Environmental His Simon Pooley Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014 Env

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Conserving Table Mountainloristic diversity, and because it was indigenous, for others it was featureless, dangerously inflammable, ‘sun-scorched, snake-ridden bush’.. The one point of agreement for these diverse approaches to the mountain environment was a vehement antipathy to fire.

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Introductionn houses and destroying property on the wildland-urban interface (WUI) of South Africa’s parliamentary capital. There were more than 120 fires in the region on that one ‘fire-storm Sunday’. These fires made a big impact regionally, nationally and (briefly) internationally, assisted by media images o

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Science, Management and Fire in Fynbos: 1945–99lly suppressed for long periods, and harmfully intense fires when fires did finally break out. He advocated experiments in using fire sensibly as a management tool, seeing that ‘fire, wind and irresponsibles will always be with us’ and bush fires therefore impossible to eliminate. He acknowledged th

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Fire Geography and Urbanisation on the Cape Peninsulacesses, of a winter-rainfall summer-drought Mediterranean-type climate, and fire. The Peninsula’s fire regimes are shaped primarily by vegetation types and age, weather patterns and events, and the incidence of ignitions. Human interventions have influenced all of these. For centuries, vegetation co