The paradox between how efficient Protect Areas (PAs) have proved to be in deterring deforestation and their institutional weakness has motivated the analysis submitted in this paper. It is widely known that PAs are historically rendered vulnerable by their lack of management resources, but for all that they are efficient in deterring deforestation, thereby conducing to a knowedge gap to be investigated regarding territorial transformations by a PA upon creation. The explanation thereof is

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... ise produced by the analysis of the territory regulated by this public policy. Thus this paper aims at analyzing the rules in force about PAs at the federal level considering territorial transformations. In conclusion, this analysis shows that the explanation for the above paradox is found in command-and-control rules, in penalty-instituting rules and likewise in public consultations that inform local communities about the consequences arising out of setting up a PA in the territory.