02501naa a2200145 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001910000110006024502560007126000090032752017800033665300280211665300120214477301990215610802042011-09-09       2006    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d1 aEpagri  aIsland managementbComparative Evaluation Between Management Strategies of The United Nations Program of Action for the Sustainable Devellopment of Small island Developing States - SIDS - with National Coastal Zone Management Plan - GERCO - in Brazil.  c2006  aThe United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1992) consisted as landmark of the sustainable development, and defined with priority actions of economic development and environmental preservation between the 170 countries that had participated. In the 13 years that had followed it, new discussions had occurred, but the environmental crisis has had intensified. The environmental damages can be observed in many places around the world, but the coastal zone is one of the most affected. Spinrad (2005) affirms that more than half of the world population lives along the coastal zone, and according to the United Nations (UN), in 2025, 47 percent of the world population will be leaving at this region. This demographic pressure and its economic, social, politics and environmental implications are noticeable in some island states. So, in 2002 the United Nations established the Program of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). Thirty seven associated countries and fourteen not associates are part of this program. According to UNCED (1992), the small island states and the islands inhabited for small communities demand special care in environment and development issues for being ecologically fragile and vulnerable. Territorial limitations and isolations are natural factors that place its human inhabitants in economic disadvantage. On the other hand, these same factors make the islands locals of uneven biodiversity with singular characteristics in relation to other animal and vegetal species. Although Brazil is not a insular country, still has hundreds of islands, also with great cities and state capitals, to the long one of the 8,698 coast km, but does not have specific policies for its management. The  aCoastal Zone Management  aIslands  tIn: ESA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 2006, Merida, M??xico. Ecology in an era of Globalization Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Scientists in the Americas. Merida, M??xico: ESA, 2006.