Since the early 1990’s, Brazil has become an open-air laboratory of sustainable development. It has engaged in implementing, in solo attempts or through international cooperation, to implement territorial polices that jointly integrate social, environmental and economical questions. Among the high number of experiments carried out [such as different scales zonings, ecological corridors, areas of integrated preservation,…], the local projects of sustainable development have received particular interest because they are supposed to change the face of the Amazon if taken together as a sum of integrated initiatives. By having an influence on the individual behaviour and by offering appropriate models of socio-economic development to the local p...