| 词汇 | afforestation |
| 释义 | afforestation noun[ U ] uk /æfˌɒr.ɪˈsteɪ.ʃən/ us /əˌfɔːr.əˈsteɪ.ʃən/ the action of planting trees on an area of land in order to make a forest造林;使成为林地 Forestry agroforestry arborist brush carbon sink clearing cut down deforest flitch lumberjack old growth ranger reafforest slash-and-burn the treeline undercut understorey unforested woodcutter woodsy woody A yearly sum was spent on afforestation in addition to what was laid out by the State and by private individuals. Some prefectures, in the sincerity of their devotion to afforestation, forbid the New Year destruction of pine trees. The Poor Law, railways, arterial drainage, afforestation, are questions which I need only refer to by name, confining myself to the greater issues. We look forward to the part that this new clothing will play in the general scheme of afforestation. With regard to the areas available for afforestation, for cattle keeping and for cultivation respectively, it was necessary to be on one's guard against "experts" who were disposed to claim all available land for their specialties. Examples of afforestationafforestation In summary, we have three outputs: afforestation area, reforestation area, and junior-forest tending area, and one input: total expense in silviculture. To enforce incentives to plant trees, afforestation responsibility was decentralized to local leaders in 1984. Afforestation is also found to strongly depend on the pressure upon land as well as on household wealth. Although post-colonial governments have launched several afforestation programmes, commercialisation and attendant revenue generation received the greater policy thrust. The aim of the subsequent sections is then to highlight the determinants of afforestation. Environmental interventions such as soil conservation, afforestation, and rehabilitation would be adopted to restore denuded areas. Here we will focus on the supply side, with emphasis on carbon-sequestration projects involving reforestation or afforestation. There are other new, continuing experiments, but they are limited to wasteland afforestation. It is only in case of afforestation that there is a gain in forestland, due to which there is an increase in the opening area. The evidence supports the importance of economic motivations in the afforestation decision. As we will discuss later, this increase in forest resources is undoubtedly the result of active policies, including afforestation efforts. The fifth forest category (forests for special use) is not included in the figure since its share is always less than 1 % of total afforestation. On the one hand, if demographic pressure is particularly strong, preference might be given to agricultural activities rather than afforestation. This is mainly the result of constant afforestation efforts that have more than compensated deforestation during the period. On the one hand, the agricultural population density has a negative impact on afforestation effort. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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