Planning and Management of Environmental Protection Areas (APA)

The aim of this work is to identify and discuss the particularities and difficulties of the process of creating and managing Environmental Protection Areas, a category of Conservation Unit established by Law 9.985/00 (SNUC). To this end, it sought to discuss the process of making the Maracanã APA effective, and the possible consequences caused in the unit, contributing to the greater viability of the APA as an instrument of Environmental Policy.