Burning Table Mountain: an environmental history of fire on the Cape Peninsula
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 14 - Geography and Environmental Studies
- Output identifier
- 1025
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/9781137415448
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137415431
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This substantial 315-page research monograph represents an extensive, sustained seven-year research effort. Acknowledged as definitive, and relevant to an urgent global environmental issue, it involved collecting and analyzing a large body of material. This included historical primary sources spanning 346 years, from archives in Oxford, Kew and across South Africa. The material, in Dutch, Afrikaans and English, includes material generated by defunct organisations, weather and fire data, newspaper reports and conference proceedings on microfilm. The researcher visited research plots, research and management institutions, and interviewed academics, scientists, land managers, planners and others from inflammable biomes across South Africa.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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