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Title Challenges & opportunities of Urban Green Infrastructure in Addis Ababa :The case of Gulele Sub City
Full text https://nadre.ethernet.edu.et/record/20720
Date 2021
Author(s) Zeradam Zeradam
Abstract Urban green infrastructures are essential elements of cities and contribute to the quality of life in numerous ways by maintaining and regulating the environment. However, increased urbanization and development have placed urban green infrastructures under extreme pressure, while unplanned urban growth has resulted in the loss of urban landscape and ecosystems. Among the Urban green infrastructures in Addis Ababa such as Street sides and medians trees, permeable pavements and recreational parks have challenges in Gulele sub city Areas. This study has assessed Challenges and opportunities of urban green infrastructures in Addis Ababa: the case of Gulele Sub Cities; specifically assessed urban green infrastructures and challenges of recreational parks, Street sides and medians trees, and Cobblestone roads of the study area. Thus, the study used both qualitative and quantitative approaches with case study methodology where questionnaires (majorly close ended and open ended), structured open ended interviews, and observation were used as data collection methods and the analysis was done by using SPSS. The sampling techniques used to do this research were purposive sampling for selection of study cases, nonprobability convenient sampling for collection of data from park users, and purposive sampling to collect data about Cobblestone roads. Different challenges of recreational parks were identified such as social, management, technical, physical, and environmental. Furthermore the study has revealed physical, management, technical, and environmental challenges are the challenges of street sides and medians trees, and cobblestone roads in the study areas. On the other hand the study has identified opportunities of UGIs such as UGI proclamations, standards, strategies, policies, and principles among others. Based on the findings of the study it is concluded that urban green infrastructures, in Gulele sub Cities of Addis Ababa, faced different challenges including social, physical, economic, environmental, and technical and management challenges. Therefore, the recommendations are basically forwarded to foster sustainable development of urban green infrastructures particularly recreational parks, Street sides and medians trees, and Cobblestoneroads in the Gulele sub cites of Addis Ababa.
Subject(s) challenges, opportunities, urban green infrastructures, Gulele sub cities, Addis Ababa
Language eng
Relation doi:10.20372/nadre/20719
Type of publication info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis; publication-thesis
Rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Identifier 10.20372/nadre/20720
Repository Addis Ababa - Repository of Ethiopia
Added to C-A: 2023-01-31;10:47:55