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Author : Daniela Vincenza Bonora
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (526 download)
Download or read book An Environmental History of the Cederberg written by Daniela Vincenza Bonora and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Beinart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134822537
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Environment and History written by William Beinart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influence of human economies and cultures on ecosystems is particularly striking in the new worlds into which Europeans have expanded over the past five hundred years. Using a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, Beinart and Coates examine this neglected aspect of the history of settler incursion and dominance in two frontier nations, the USA and South Africa. They also seek to explain change in indigenous ideas and practices towards the environment, and discuss the rise of popular environmentalism up to the present day.
Author : William Beinart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780203205396
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Environment and History written by William Beinart and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John F. Richards
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520230750
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Unending Frontier written by John F. Richards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-05-15 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John F.
Author : S. Pooley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137415444
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Burning Table Mountain written by S. Pooley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : George Seddon
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN 13 : 9781863735599
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Searching for the Snowy written by George Seddon and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Snowy River, which begins its journey from below Mt Kosciusko and meets Bass Strait some 450 kilometres to the south. It presents a new kind of history through maps and photographs and brings to life the huge Snowy Mountains hydro electricity project, as well as the setting for one of the great ballads of Australian literature, TThe Man from Snowy River'. The author is a canoeist, scientist, historian and writer. Includes a bibliography and index.
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Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book South African Journal of Science written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. C. Taylor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cederberg Vegetation and Flora written by H. C. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Holmes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134972393
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Southern African Landscapes and Environmental Change written by Peter J. Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a textbook and reference work on the physical and biotic landscapes of Southern Africa. It examines the links between these environments and the ways in which they have been, are and will likely be subject to change. It covers the geomorphology, soils, vegetation and land use across a range of landscapes, including mountains, coasts, savannah, drylands and wetlands, and identifies the impacts of current and potential climate change and other factors on these environments. The geographical focus is on the region defined by Namibia, South Africa, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland. Illustrated throughout in full colour, the book will serve as a reference volume for researchers and environmental professionals internationally, as well as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate-level students of geography, ecology and environmental studies in Southern Africa.
Author : Adam Sowards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851099107
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book United States West Coast written by Adam Sowards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-08-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date and insightful overview available on the environmental history of the West Coast of the United States, a region of extraordinary physical beauty distinguished by its inhabitants' efforts to both sustain and exploit their natural resources. Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, United States West Coast: An Environmental History explores the interplay of ecology, economy, and culture throughout the history of the region of North America where the waters drain to the Pacific Ocean. Synthesizing the most recent and insightful studies on the region, United States West Coast portrays environmental change in the far western United States from the emergence of humans in the Pacific Northwest (about 12,000 years ago), to the rise of European colonial trade networks, to the era of industrialization and urbanization, to present day activism and public policy responses to environmental damage. By investigating how humans interact with their nonhuman surroundings across a specific expanse that encompasses all kinds of landscapes, cultures, and commercial enterprises, this insightful volume shows just how interdependent the relationship between people and their environment is.
Author : Stefan Grab
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319035606
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa written by Stefan Grab and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the most prominent landscapes of South Africa and the distinctive landforms associated with them. It describes the processes, origins and the environmental significance of those landscapes, including their relationships to human activity of the past and present. The sites described in this book include, amongst others, the Blyde River Canyon, Augrabies Falls, Kruger National Park, Kalahari desert landscapes, the Great Escarpment, Sterkfontein caves and karst system, Table Mountain, Cape winelands, coastal dunes, rocky coasts, Boer War battlefield sites, and Vredefort impact structure. Landscapes and Landforms of South Africa provides a new perspective on South Africa’s scenic landscapes by considering their diversity, long and short term histories, and importance for geoconservation and geotourism. This book will be relevant to those interested in the geology, physical geography and history of South Africa, climate change and landscape tourism.
Author : Laura A. White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135009157X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Ecospectrality written by Laura A. White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with humans and animals, ghosts populate the pages of contemporary Anglophone novels. Analysing novels from across the world-including Australia, Nigeria, South Africa, India, and Jamaica, this book explores how these ghosts can help readers to perceive difficult-to-visualise environmental threats and access marginalised environmental knowledge. Instead of prompting fear, these hauntings foster understanding across species and generations to enable inclusive formulations of environmental justice. Drawing on the latest work in postcolonial ecocriticism, hauntology, and environmental philosophy and such literary texts as GraceLand, No Telephone to Heaven, The Rock Alphabet, and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Ecospectrality is an essential read for anyone working in the environmental humanities today.
Author : Gunnel Cederlöf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019909389X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book At Nature’s Edge written by Gunnel Cederlöf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean coast, the Negev desert and the former military bases of Vietnam, or the Namib desert and the east African savannah all have in common a long-time human presence and the many ways people have modified nature. With research covering countries from Asia, Africa, and Australia, the authors come together to ask how and why human impacts on nature have grown in scale and pace from a long pre-history. The chapters in this volume illumine specific patterns and responses across time, going beyond an overt centring of the European experience. The tapestry of life and the human reshaping of environments evoke both concern and hope, making it vital to understand when, why, and how we came to this particular turn in the road. Eschewing easy labels and questioning eurocentrism in today’s climate vocabulary, this is a volume that will stimulate rethinking among scholars and citizens alike.
Author : Joel S. Levine
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262122016
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Biomass Burning and Global Change: Remote sensing, modeling and inventory development, and biomass burning in Africa written by Joel S. Levine and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Biomass Burning provides a convenient and current reference on such topics as the remote sensing of biomass burning from space, the geographical distribution of burning; the combustion products of burning in tropical, temperate, and boreal ecosystems; burning as a global source of atmospheric gases and particulates; the impact of biomass burning gases and particulates on global climate; and the role of biomass burning on biodiversity and past global extinctions."--Pub. desc.
Author : Nicky Allsopp
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191669113
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Fynbos written by Nicky Allsopp and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa's fynbos region has intrigued biologists for centuries. It has achieved iconic status as a locus of megadiversity and therefore a place to study the ecological underpinnings of massive evolutionary radiations. Researchers have made great advances over the past two decades in unravelling the complexities of fynbos ecology and evolution, and the region has contributed significant insights into the adaptive radiations of large lineages, conservation science, pollination biology, invasive plant biology, and palaeoanthropology. Lessons from the fynbos offer much of value for understanding the origin, maintenance, and conservation of diversity anywhere in the world. This book provides the first synthesis of the field for 20 years, bringing together the latest ecological and evolutionary research on the South African global biodiversity hotspots of the Greater Cape Floristic Region - the iconic fynbos and succulent karoo. It explores the historical and modern physical and biological environment of this region, the circumstances and processes which have fostered its remarkable biodiversity, and the role this diversity has played in the emergence of modern humans. It also discusses the challenges of contemporary management and conservation of the region's biodiversity in the face of accelerating global change.
Author : Christof Mauch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (881 download)
Download or read book The Edges of Environmental History written by Christof Mauch and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Marie Plane
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (437 download)
Download or read book Environmental History as Public History written by Ann Marie Plane and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
