Urban green values - evaluation, management and communication as the key to climate-friendly and natural development of green spaces | Umweltbundesamt

• Planned online tool to map the effects of urban green spaces and their value and to generate arguments for their preservation and expansion
• A communication and participation strategy is to be developed and tested together with the four partner municipalities with the aim of involving additional stakeholders in the preservation and expansion of urban green values. This supports the transformation process through broad public participation and promotes acceptance and participation.
• With the development of a communication and participation strategy, the project "urban green values" can help municipalities to sensitize the city society for climate adaptation and biodiversity and initiate corresponding measures IÖW, DUH to set and establish permanently. The evaluation tool with the functions of urban green contained therein offers the great opportunity, the canon of arguments to expand significantly and in particular to raise awareness among politicians and administrators that city green is much more than a cost factor in the municipal budget.

The summary and type of costs of municipal green space management are differentiated from the synthesis report: manufacturing costs, maintenance costs and management costs (personnel, administration) as well as expenses for the owner function (e.g. discussions with the citizens) and the cost estimates are based on experience or experience Derived from sample time values. A more recent approach is the application of the life-cycle approach. From this perspective, it is confirmed that most of the costs are incurred during the use phase and that a particularly high influence on the total costs in the design and planning phase is possible.