Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of turning ground into forest or woodland, or subjecting it to forest law; the territory afforested.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of converting into forest or woodland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of creating a new forest where none had existed before, or
reforestation of areas longdeforested .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the conversion of bare or cultivated land into forest (originally for the purpose of hunting)
Etymologies
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Examples
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We shall use the word afforestation here to denote the steps to be taken for promoting the growth of timber on a large scale.
Rebuilding Britain A Survey Of Problems Of Reconstruction After The World War Alfred Hopkinson 1895
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This is called afforestation, and as I mentioned in the piece, it has already happened on a large scale in the eastern United States, the former Soviet Union, China and some other areas.
NYT > Home Page By JUSTIN GILLIS 2011
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This is called afforestation, and as I mentioned in the piece, it has already happened on a large scale in the eastern United States, the former Soviet Union, China and some other areas.
NYT > Home Page By JUSTIN GILLIS 2011
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According to two new studies, planting forests in areas that currently don't have trees -- a process called afforestation -- can reduce the local availability ...
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Farms are going out of traditional agricultural production, while other forms of land use, such as afforestation and horse farming, are increasing.
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However, some changes in land use, such as afforestation and reforestation, can also result in an increase in biodiversity and increased local energy balance.
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He said that the December summit should focus on consensus on areas such as afforestation to promote carbon sequestration, strengthening the Clean Development Mechanism and technology sharing.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009
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In 1972, some 50 years after the Forestry Commission started its afforestation enterprise, a booklet entitled East Anglian Forests was published by the HMSO If we lose our forests, our culture will suffer..., G2, 5 January.
Letters: Keeping it arboreal – the truth about our forests 2011
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Through iron-stimulated plankton blooms in the oceans and afforestation projects in Europe, we are able to generate carbon credits.
Free Market or Artificial Market?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Under the first commitment target of the Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012), only afforestation and reforestation projects are eligible to earn carbon credits.
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The Blue Planet Award-winning botanist from Japan is celebrated for his very particular approach to afforestation—a soil-, air-, water-, and climate-remediating process by which trees are planted where no trees existed before.
The Miyawaki Method: A Better Way to Build Forests? | JSTOR Daily Lina Zeldovich 2019
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