Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time by Scott, Andrew C.
Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time by Scott, Andrew C.

Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time

Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that...
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Author: Andrew C. Scott
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Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time by Scott, Andrew C.

Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time

$339.34
Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time by Scott, Andrew C.

Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time

$339.34
Author: Andrew C. Scott
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
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 C. 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. It has caused mass extinctions, and it has propelled the spread of flowering plants.

The exciting evidence we can now draw on has been preserved in fossilized charcoal, found in rocks hundreds of millions of years old, from all over the world. These reveal incredibly fine details of prehistoric plants, and tell us about climates from deep in earth's history. They also give us insight into how early hominids and humans tamed fire and used it.

Looking at the impact of wildfires in our own time, Scott also looks forward to how we might better manage them in future, as climate change has an increasing effect on our world.


Author: Andrew C. Scott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/01/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198734840

About the Author

Andrew C. Scott is Emeritus Professor of Geology and a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has co-authored and edited several academic books on fire, most recently Fire on Earth: An Introduction with David M. J. S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne, and Martin E. Alexander. He appears regularly on radio and television science programmes.



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