• Corpus ID: 214752714

Sustainability and Greenery Assessment of Green Space Planning and Implementation in Debre Markos Town, Ethiopia, By Using Gis Software

@inproceedings{Frew2019SustainabilityAG,
  title={Sustainability and Greenery Assessment of Green Space Planning and Implementation in Debre Markos Town, Ethiopia, By Using Gis Software},
  author={Ayalu Zewdie Frew},
  year={2019}
}

• Ayalu Zewdie Frew
• Published 2019

The sustainability and climate of the city is significantly affected by the share of green space. This includes making use of unconventional types of green space planning, such as roof or façade greening, landscaping, and thus helping the city to adjust to climate change and other results. According to this and other reason, this research was conducted to assess green space planning and implementation in Debre Markos town. The study was shows two approaches; the government who had developed green space and the private association who had developed their own green spaces in the town. The research tried to review related literatures of green space planning and implementation. This research was also followed a cross-sectional mixed method design which is a procedure for collecting, analyzing and mixing both quantitative and qualitative data at some stage of the research process. When used in combination; quantitative and qualitative methods complement each other and allow for more complete analysis. GIS and remote sensing application also applied for map generating and presentation in this study. Moreover the paper concluded and recommends some basic issues to alleviate the challenges and make the town as competitive and sustainable as other cities in Ethiopia in green space planning and implementation. Professional training, awareness creation through different means and integration with stakeholders to increase participations are some of the recommendations. Moreover, the paper strongly suggest that, town officials who have a mandate and responsibilities should be equipped with the concept of urbanization, sustainable town and creating sustainable community.