Author: Neil Melbourne Tainton
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This text is a synthesis of research in production and management since the inception of the discipline as an agricultural science in the 1930s. All the ecological regions are covered extensively, but the main emphasis is on the three biomes (grassland, savanna and karoo) which produce the bulk of the forage supporting the domestic livestock, conservation and the game farming industries. The book has an audience beyond the borders of South Africa in the grassland and savanna areas which stretch through southern and central Africa.
Veld Management in South Africa
Author: Neil Melbourne Tainton
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This text is a synthesis of research in production and management since the inception of the discipline as an agricultural science in the 1930s. All the ecological regions are covered extensively, but the main emphasis is on the three biomes (grassland, savanna and karoo) which produce the bulk of the forage supporting the domestic livestock, conservation and the game farming industries. The book has an audience beyond the borders of South Africa in the grassland and savanna areas which stretch through southern and central Africa.
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
This text is a synthesis of research in production and management since the inception of the discipline as an agricultural science in the 1930s. All the ecological regions are covered extensively, but the main emphasis is on the three biomes (grassland, savanna and karoo) which produce the bulk of the forage supporting the domestic livestock, conservation and the game farming industries. The book has an audience beyond the borders of South Africa in the grassland and savanna areas which stretch through southern and central Africa.
Veld Management in the Eastern Cape
Author: South Africa. Department of Agriculture. Eastern Cape Region
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780621123883
Category : Grazing
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780621123883
Category : Grazing
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Wildland Fire Management Handbook for Sub-Sahara Africa
Author: Johann Georg Goldammer
Publisher: African Minds
ISBN: 191983365X
Category : Fire ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Africa is a fire continent. Since the early evolution of humanity, fire has been harnessed as a land-use tool. Many ecosystems of Sub-Sahara Africa that have been shaped by fire over millennia provide a high carrying capacity for human populations.
Publisher: African Minds
ISBN: 191983365X
Category : Fire ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Africa is a fire continent. Since the early evolution of humanity, fire has been harnessed as a land-use tool. Many ecosystems of Sub-Sahara Africa that have been shaped by fire over millennia provide a high carrying capacity for human populations.
Zonal Biomes of Southern Africa
Author: Ladislav Mucina
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031637313
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031637313
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
The National Agricultural Directory 2009
Author:
Publisher: RainbowSA
ISBN: 0620425679
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher: RainbowSA
ISBN: 0620425679
Category : Agricultural industries
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Vegetation of Southern Africa
Author: R. M. Cowling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521548014
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Comprehensive illustrated guide to plant science and ecology of southern African vegetation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521548014
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Comprehensive illustrated guide to plant science and ecology of southern African vegetation.
Biomass Burning and Global Change: Remote sensing, modeling and inventory development, and biomass burning in Africa
Author: Joel S. Levine
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262122016
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
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.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262122016
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
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.
Veld Management Priciples and Practices
Author: Frits Van Oudtshoorn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781920217297
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781920217297
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Technical Report
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Textile fabrics
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Contested Karoo: Interdisciplinary perspectives on change and continuity in South Africa’s drylands
Author: Cherryl Walker
Publisher: African Sun Media
ISBN: 199145001X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This inter-disciplinary collection explores significant land-use changes in South Africa’s semi-arid Karoo region and their implications for social justice and the environment, across different scales. It brings together recent scholarship by established and younger researchers, in both the social and the natural sciences, to examine the ways in which the Karoo is being reconfigured as a new ‘resource frontier’ and the tensions and contestations that result. Along with ongoing mining, major investments in astronomy (notably the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope), in renewable and non-renewable sources of energy (solar, wind, potential shale-gas mining), in biodiversity conservation and commercial game farming are reshaping land use and authority in this vast and long-marginalised area. While promising significant benefits to society at large, these developments are built on older histories of dispossession and extractivism – histories that many Karoo residents fear are being reproduced in new forms today. Collectively these dynamics place this unique region at the centre of national and global concerns around climate change, the politics of knowledge production, the conservation of threatened biodiversity, and the meaning and possibility of sustainable development. These issues are explored through a series of case studies of selected developments, complemented by chapters providing more historical context and general overviews. While challenging perceptions of this region as a peripheral wasteland, this collection raises conceptual and policy questions that resonate far beyond the Karoo itself. It also highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research aimed not only at understanding but also at responding appropriately to the mounting challenges of our time.
Publisher: African Sun Media
ISBN: 199145001X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This inter-disciplinary collection explores significant land-use changes in South Africa’s semi-arid Karoo region and their implications for social justice and the environment, across different scales. It brings together recent scholarship by established and younger researchers, in both the social and the natural sciences, to examine the ways in which the Karoo is being reconfigured as a new ‘resource frontier’ and the tensions and contestations that result. Along with ongoing mining, major investments in astronomy (notably the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope), in renewable and non-renewable sources of energy (solar, wind, potential shale-gas mining), in biodiversity conservation and commercial game farming are reshaping land use and authority in this vast and long-marginalised area. While promising significant benefits to society at large, these developments are built on older histories of dispossession and extractivism – histories that many Karoo residents fear are being reproduced in new forms today. Collectively these dynamics place this unique region at the centre of national and global concerns around climate change, the politics of knowledge production, the conservation of threatened biodiversity, and the meaning and possibility of sustainable development. These issues are explored through a series of case studies of selected developments, complemented by chapters providing more historical context and general overviews. While challenging perceptions of this region as a peripheral wasteland, this collection raises conceptual and policy questions that resonate far beyond the Karoo itself. It also highlights the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration in research aimed not only at understanding but also at responding appropriately to the mounting challenges of our time.