The present report analyses the problematic of conservation planning and management in small central Atlantic islands, developing Conservation planning and management approaches that can bring to this particular context. Particular attention is given to the ways of development of feasible governance systems, particularly trough the development of comprehensible environmental characterization and evaluation tolls, able to compare and display alternative development scenarios and model their relative advantages and disadvantages, and base processes of contratualization and trade-offs involving all stakeholders in an active participatory way. An application to the island of Pico (Azores) is presented
