Contracting-out in urban green-space management: Instruments, approaches and arrangements

With the widespread application of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology in urban green space management system, the refinement of greening management puts forward the demand for upgrading the system. Taking the construction of urban green space management system in Wuxi as an example, this paper reverses the conventional operation of building database before system, and puts forward the method of management-oriented system upgrading. Through the research on the status quo of urban greening management, starting from the analysis of management requirements, the management requirements are transformed into system design requirements, so that the system upgrade is guided by the urban greening management requirements. It solves the problems of large amount of and time-consuming data input during the upgrading and construction of the system, which leads to long process and data lag when it is put into use. After the rapid upgrade, along with the refinement of daily management, the system has been continuously improved, and has received good results in the depth and breadth of data.

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Challenges of urban green space management in the face of using inadequate data

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening ◽

10.1016/j.ufug.2017.12.003 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 31 ◽

pp. 56-66 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Marcin Feltynowski ◽

Jakub Kronenberg ◽

Tomasz Bergier ◽

Nadja Kabisch ◽

Edyta Łaszkiewicz ◽

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Keyword(s):

Green Space ◽

Urban Green Space ◽

Space Management ◽

Urban Green ◽

The Face

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Public urban green space management in Norwegian municipalities: A managers’ perspective on place-keeping

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening ◽

10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126438 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 44 ◽

pp. 126438 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Claudia Fongar ◽

Thomas B. Randrup ◽

Björn Wiström ◽

Ingjerd Solfjeld

Keyword(s):

Green Space ◽

Urban Green Space ◽

Space Management ◽

Urban Green

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Towards a ‘City in Nature’: Evaluating the Cultural Ecosystem Services Approach to Support Urban Green Space Management

10.20944/preprints202112.0417.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Yi Fan Koh ◽

Ho Huu Loc ◽

Edward Park

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Green Space ◽

Urban Green Space ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Environmental Research ◽

Future Research ◽

Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽

Space Management ◽

Urban Green

Cultural ecosystem services has been increasingly influential in both environmental research and policy decision-making, such as for urban green spaces However, its popular definition conflates the concepts of ‘services’ and ‘benefits’ which made it challenging for planners to employ it directly for urban green space management. One the most widely used definition of this non-tangible ecosystem services are “functions of environmental spaces and cultural activities which may then result in the enjoyment of cultural ecosystem benefits”; yet the latter itself have never found its way into official laws and regulations. In this study, via a case study in Singapore, we propose new evidence to re-evaluate and re-position the two of the most important emerging concepts in managing the green spaces in urban areas. Using the transdisciplinary mixed methods of public participation GIS and social media text mining analysis, a wealth of cultural ecosystem services and their associated benefits were reported. This was especially so with regards to recreational and aesthetic services and experiential benefits. Recommendations to improve the park were also suggested, alongside sharing of methodological considerations for future research. Overall, this paper recommends the employment of the redefined cultural ecosystem services conceptual framework to generate relational, data-driven and actionable insights to better support urban green space management, which is not only useful to Singapore governments but also world-wide relevant.

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