Green space management
The task of green space management is the long-term maintenance of green and open spaces in urban areas. Regardless of whether these green spaces are publicly or privately owned, green space management includes the following services: planning, administration, management and maintenance through care.
Green space management is therefore more comprehensive than pure green space maintenance, although both terms are (incorrectly) used as synonyms.
Green space management is characterized by dealing with natural elements ("green"), that is, with vegetation in the form of trees, shrubs, perennials and flowers and bodies of water, and thus also dealing with the unpredictable and unpredictable nature of nature such as weather, climate and growth . Digital green space information systems (GRIS) are used as a tool for administration and analysis , which make available data on vegetation components as individual geographic objects with suitable geographical information systems in a simple manner.
The particular challenge of green space management is to grasp these imponderables through planning, management and business management techniques in such a way that both the individual task of the green spaces (and gardens) for user groups and the economic tasks of the green spaces in urban areas are fulfilled .
Publications
- Niesel, Alfred (ed.): Green space maintenance management . Stuttgart, 2006.
- GALK (Ed.): Handbook of Green Space Management . KommunalTechnik publishing house, 2006.
- Steidle-Schwahn, Anna: The management of the maintenance of communal green spaces . Munich, 2002.
- The City of Zurich's Green Paper. Cordula Weber et al., Grün Stadt Zürich, 2006, 155 pages.