Urban ecosystems and the use of clean development mechanisms

“Urban Ecosystems and the Use of Clean Development Mechanisms”
Ricardo Siloto da Silva
Researcher of the Postgraduate Program in Urban Engineering, Federal University of São Carlos, SP, Brazil. Research Group: Urban sustainability. Study Group: Urban environmental management. E-mail: [e-mail].

Leandro Letti da Silva Araújo
Student of the Postgraduate Program in Urban Engineering, Federal University of São Carlos, SP, Brazil. Study Group: Urban environmental management. E-mail: [e-mail]

Fernanda Tonizza Moraes
Postgraduate Program in Geosciences and Environment, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil. Research Group: Geoenvironmental planning. E-mail: [e-mail]

Abstract
The development models adopted by many countries in the world continue to produce, due to the high energetic and natural resources requirements for their maintenance, deep impacts and changes in the biosphere as well as social and environmental strokes, such as social inequity, unemployment and famine. Most of these negative impacts have been created by the establishment of cities, modifying greatly the natural landscape and generating consuming denseness and overburdening the environmental capacity. Through tout experiences around clean technologies and sensible consuming of natural resources, the proposed tool mentioned in article 12 of the Quioto Protocol called Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM) allows local governments from developing countries to allocate investments in technologies in regards of clean energy usage, public transportation management, industrial production processes, land usage, forest management and citizen’s awareness and education. By these means, the promotion of a favorable scenario towards development requires a kind of management guidance, understood as process and not as a product, which must bear as its main actors the own population, bringing together not only political responsibilities to the government