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标题：Understanding smallholders’ intended deforestation behavior in the Brazilian Cerrado following environmental registry
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作者：Laura Vang Rasmussen ; Suhyun Jung ; Alice Dantas Brites 等
期刊名称：Environmental Research Letters
印刷版ISSN：1748-9326
电子版ISSN：1748-9326
出版年度：2017
卷号：12
期号：9
页码：094001
DOI：10.1088/1748-9326/aa7ee5
语种：English
出版社：IOP Publishing Ltd
摘要：Brazil's Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) is a potentially promising avenue to slow deforestation on private properties as it facilitates the monitoring of land use. Yet limited empirical evidence exists on how the CAR affects smallholders' behavior and recent scholarly efforts have in fact indicated that it may be doing less to protect forests than previously assumed. Based on 1177 smallholder surveys conducted in the Cerrado, we assess 1) whether the CAR might incentivize smallholders to pursue deforestation and 2) which factors are associated with smallholders' intended deforestation behavior. We find that upon CAR registration, factors significantly associated with smallholders' intention to deforest are: the existing percentage of native vegetation on the property, the use of agricultural loans, property owner's age, and livestock production experience. To curb deforestation that may follow expressed intentions of smallholders, the CAR, and environmental registration programs alike, should account for existing land use by, for example, improving the system already in place for trading areas of native vegetation as this system is not widely adopted by those smallholders with more native vegetation than the legal cut-off. Also, such programs should assess the role of whether conditions related to land cover maintenance may protect against deforestation if credit access is supported especially to younger smallholders and/or livestock producers with a high percentage of native vegetation in their properties.