Burning planet : The story of fire through time / Andrew C. Scott.

By:

Scott, Andrew C

Material type: Text

TextEdition: First editionDescription: xi, 231 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), mapsISBN:

9780198734840 (hbk.)
0198734840 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

900 SCO.B

Contents:

Introducing fire -- Getting dirty: what charcoal can tell us -- Kindling -- The rise, fall, and rise of fire -- Fire, flowers, and dinosaurs -- Fire and the coming of the modern world -- Prometheus -- The future of fire.

Summary: Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years, as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth. Andrew Scott tells the whole story of fire's impact on our planet's atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life.--

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-216) and index.

Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years, as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth. Andrew Scott tells the whole story of fire's impact on our planet's atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life.--

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