We quantified the avoided deforestation impacts of environmental land registration in Brazil's Amazonian states of Mato Grosso and Pará between 2005 and 2014. We find that the program reduced deforestation on registered lands. The magnitude of the effect implies that deforestation in the two states would have been 10% higher in the absence of the program. The impacts of registration varied over time, likely due to changing suites of policies linking environmental registration to land use incentives. Our results also reveal that agriculturally suitable lands and those located in regions undergoing the most land‐use change were more likely to be registered than those in less suitable, less dynamic regions. We conclude that environmental registration is an important first step in implementing avoided deforestation policies targeting private landholders.

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避免森林砍伐与巴西亚马逊地区的财产环境注册有关

我们量化了2005年至2014年之间巴西亚马逊河州马托格罗索州和帕拉州避免的环境土地注册对森林砍伐的影响。我们发现，该计划减少了注册土地上的森林砍伐。这种影响的严重程度意味着，如果没有该计划，这两个州的森林砍伐率将高出10％。登记的影响随着时间的推移而变化，这可能是由于将环境登记与土地使用奖励措施联系起来的一系列政策的变化。我们的结果还显示，与农业条件不佳，人口动态变化较小的地区相比，适合农业的土地和土地利用变化最大的地区的土地更容易被注册。