EIRP Proceedings, Vol 4 (2009)

Abstract

The unprecedented post-industrial development has ended up in disturbing the bio-climatic cycles of the planet's ecosystem. The excessive exploitation of the nature and the increase of the waste volume exhaust the ecosystems more quickly than their capacity of renewal. While the urban ecosystems (parks, green areas, running waters) ensure important services to the population (recreation, air quality), the rural ecosystems are the ones to ensure the goods and services that are necessary to everyday life. The incapacity for turning the ecosystems' potential into revenues dissimulate a dysfunction at the governing level. The challenge consists in modifying this equation, facilitating a high access of poor to the local potential of the ecosystems and their capability of transforming, by sustainable models the nature
productivity into incomes.