The consideration of the environmental variable has been changed the present dynamics of the territorial planning. The development of a sociology of the territorial planning would be worthwhile for us to better understand the paths of that “environmentalizing” of the planning. The Ecological-Economical Zoning (EEY) is a particularly fertile object for producting of such knowledge. This article is a reflection on the methods of ZEE, characterizing its impasses and the conflicts that necessarily involve them. The objective is to help to do the zoning a real change instrument acting in the social-territorial dynamics prevalent in the Amazonian.
