The Sustainable View of Childhood: A Case Study in a Metropolitan Municipality

This work aims to state the importance of the perceptions of the infantile population as a starting point for the establishment of priorities in the municipal management. From the design of creative instruments adapted to infantile population (such as the “Letter to the Municipal Representatives” designed for this study) it is possible to carry out a systematic and rigorous process of information gathering which states the demands and interests of the children collective. The proposed research corroborates the importance of the children's perspective in the development of local management and public policies related to environmental health, as well as to citizen participation and sustainable development, all of them carried out from firm democratic processes.