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deforestationProcess of clearing forests. Rates of deforestation are particularly high in the tropics, where the poor quality of the soil has led to the practice of routine clear-cutting to make new soil available for agricultural use. Deforestation can lead to erosion, drought, loss of biodiversity through extinction of plant and animal species, and increased atmospheric carbon dioxide. Many nations have undertaken afforestation or reforestation projects to reverse the effects of deforestation, or to increase available timber. See also greenhouse effect.
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Environmental groups are pushing for the use of market mechanisms to address one of the world's largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions: deforestation. For example, it would be possible--when forest is defined as land with 10 percent tree canopy cover--to degrade a forest from 100 percent to 10 percent tree canopy cover without triggering any emissions calculation based on deforestation. In Chapter 5 the development of the argument moves to the postwar era and the underlying reasons for deforestation. |
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