Concept: deforestation in the concept vocabulary

Concept URI	http://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/concept/2036
Preferred label	deforestation
Definition	The removal of forest and undergrowth to increase the surface of arable land or to use the timber for construction or industrial purposes. Forest and its undergrowth possess a very high water-retaining capacity, inhibiting runoff of rainwater.
Notation
Status	Valid
Status Modified	2013-12-05
Accepted Date	2013-12-05
Not Accepted Date
Alternative label	avskogning [sv] baso-soiltze [eu] deforestacija [hr] kalhuggning [sv] αποδάσωση [el]
Has broader	3439 (forestry) in gemet2/concept
Has narrower	9352 (woodland clearance) in gemet2/concept
Is related to	1471 (climatic change) in gemet2/concept
Has exact match	http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_36206 http://eurovoc.europa.eu/339
Has close match	http://data.uba.de/umt/_00008402 http://dbpedia.org/resource/Deforestation
Source	GILP (Dictionary of environmental terms) in gemet2/source