Institutional perspectives and theories have shaped how problems related to individual and collective choices in forest landscapes are perceived. This article explores the social impacts of the Rural Environmental Cadastre (CAR) in the municipality of Sao Felix do Xingu, in the state of Para, Brazilian Amazon. CAR is a tenure clarification and environmental compliance intervention to reduce deforestation and improve forest conservation in the Brazilian Amazon. With a focus on smallholders, the article provides insights on how to better understand institutional bricolage and behavior change in the context of social practices. Results suggest that CAR implementation is still too limited to adequately reflect the heterogeneity and complexity of reducing deforestation in the Eastern Amazon. The SFX case shows that land users responsible for pursuing environmental compliance normally draw on existing traditions – styles of thinking, sanctioned social relationships – to respond to changing situations. Neglecting such social processes and practices can decrease the long-term effectiveness of interventions such as CAR. This is usually a result of unforeseen interactions among activities practiced by the range of different actors in forest landscapes. Concluding remarks argue that, unless we shift our approach from focusing on changing individuals’ behavior to changing the interaction of elements that constitute social practices, we will remain blind to the conditions that actually drive behavior change towards environmental compliance and forest conservation.

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了解机构的贿赂行为：是什么促使行为改变朝着东亚马逊地区的可持续土地利用方向发展？

制度的观点和理论影响了人们如何看待与森林景观中个体和集体选择有关的问题。本文探讨了巴西亚马逊州帕拉州圣菲利克斯杜辛古市的农村环境地籍（CAR）的社会影响。CAR是一项权属澄清和环境合规干预措施，旨在减少巴西亚马逊地区的森林砍伐并改善森林保护。本文以小农户为重点，提供有关如何更好地理解社会实践背景下的制度变迁和行为变化的见解。结果表明，CAR实施仍然过于局限，不足以反映出亚马逊东部地区减少森林砍伐的异质性和复杂性。SFX案例表明，负责追求环境合规性的土地使用者通常会利用现有传统（思维方式，认可的社会关系）来应对不断变化的情况。忽视这样的社会过程和做法会降低诸如CAR等干预措施的长期有效性。这通常是由于森林景观中不同参与者的行为所进行的活动之间无法预料的相互作用的结果。结束语指出，除非我们将方法从关注改变个人行为的方法转移到改变构成社会实践的要素的相互作用，否则我们将对实际推动行为改变朝着环境合规和森林保护的条件视而不见。