As the result mainly of anthropic action, the socio-environmental problem has been causing concern over the need to create protected territories (conservation units) aimed at preserving the socio-biodiversity, and the need to learn from way traditional communities are managed. In view of the complexity, it is necessary to seek to learn from experiences currently taking place, which converge with Ecodevelopment, and which can at least help lessen the distance in the false dichotomy between social and ecological systems. Thus, it seeks to explore the potential of what is conceptually known as community tourism, based on the perspective of the socio-environmental problem and seeking its sustainable application in a pilot project of a laboratory zone of education for ecodevelopment. The theoretical framework is constructed based on the environmental sciences - human ecology, deep ecology, environmental law and ecological economy - and the applied social sciences - industrial and solidary economy, administration and tourism, The article, which is mainly of a descriptiveempirical nature, explores and gives potential to the first results achieved for the last four quarters (July 2006 to June 2007) of the implementation of a pilot project of an action-research study, in a Laboratory Zone of Education for Ecodevelopment. It is concluded that the socio-productive arrangement of community tourism, promoted in the microbasin of the Sagrado River, based on the pilot project, enables mutual respect in ecological and social economic relations, between aware tourists and members of the communities, who want a development which is unique to them, harmonized with their territory and culture, but distanced from the socially idealized image of village life, in which there are no problems, but which at least enables a quality of life at the human community level. Key ey words: Ecological and social economics; Community Based Socioproductive Arrangement; Community Tourism.