What is the case?

In climate adaptation, the focus is mainly on solutions for redesign. Solutions for existing green spaces are often overlooked. Green management can make a significant contribution to the climate-adaptive goals that many governments have established in their environmental visions. There is little known about management and maintenance measures aimed at climate adaptation. This research focuses on the following question: Which management and maintenance measures per vegetation type can be optimised to contribute more to climate adaptation in public spaces?

What does the project do about it?

The research contributes to increasing knowledge about climate-adaptive green management. By formulating optimised management and maintenance measures, governments can adapt their existing public spaces and manage them in a maximally climate-adaptive way. Instead of redesigning the entire public space, much can already be achieved with the current greenery. Albert-Jan Kerssen, Branch Manager of idverde Advies once said: 99% of the greenery in the city is already there!

The combination of the Garden and Landscape Design and Management of the Living Environment programmes adds an extra dimension to the assignment. In addition to researching the substantive impact of the measures, a process design also describes how the information actually reaches the clients of the commissioning party. This ensures that clients are motivated to manage in a climate-adaptive way.

What does the project deliver?

The graduation project provides practical building blocks that can be incorporated into management plans along with other themes such as liveability and biodiversity. This way, existing public spaces can contribute to reducing the effects caused by climate change in the future.

Project details:

Name of the applied research group/researcher: n / a

Project Duration: 1 February 2021 to 21 July 2021

Commissioning party: idverde Advies, ’s-Hertogenbosch

Contact person EnvironmentalLAB: Frans van den Goorbergh

Involved programmes/lecturers: Garden and Landscape Design, Management of the Living Environment, Hans Jacobse