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Abstract

This article search understand if and how French Guiana can use the payment of ecosystem services as a way to protect the part of the Amazon in its territory from exploitation in order to realize, at the same time, a sustainable development that serves its population. That despite having a better economic situation than other populations in Latin America, does not come close to the excellent condition of French compatriots on the European continent. Such study had use the deductive and inductive methods, with bibliographic technique, using the analysis of the environmental economic valuation, the precepts of payment for ecosystem services and understanding the historical geographic and socioeconomic situation of French Guiana to demonstrate that the payment by Ecosystem services can indeed assist in the economic independence of the department of Guyana from metropolitan France and at the same time prevent disorderly growth and illegal exploitation in the region. For theoretical framework the article uses the concept of sustainable development by Freitas (2011) and conclude the need to implement the PES in French Guiana as a way to guarantee a real sustainable development.