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Agroforestry

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Agroforestry is “the intentional integration of forestry with agriculture” (regeneration.org). This means that trees and shrubs are integrated into croplands and farmlands. This strategy is a low-cost way to make agriculture more sustainable, promote biodiversity, and combat climate change. Agroforestry promotes soil health and can be a method of soil conservation and regeneration. 

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Anthropocene

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The Anthropocene is the most popular name proposed for the current geological epoch in which human activity has fundamentally and irreversibly altered Earth’s environmental and geological systems, pushing them from the range of natural variability into “a no-analogue state” (134). Coined in 2000 by Nobel-prize winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen, the Anthropocene (or, the era of humans) was proposed as a new epoch after the Holocene, a period of stable climate conditions since the end of the last ice age.

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Anthropocentrism

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Related Terms: Ecocentrism, Human Supremacy, Anthropocene, Anthropodenial, Human Exceptionalism, Speciesism

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