Green area maintenance in Vantaa

Green areas owned by the city of Vantaa (Finland), covering 2,450 hectares and growing, are maintained by the Green Area Unit.

The green area includes park forests, meadows, landscape fields and built parks.  The Green Area Unit buys green-area maintenance services from both the city’s own Environmental Protection Unit and regional sub-contractors.

Because local government is tasked with service provision and ensuring that social and economic development needs within the carrying capacity of the biological resource base, local government is an important manager of global biodiversity. ICLEI has established the Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB) project to explore the best ways for local governments to engage in effective biodiversity protection, utilization and management. For more information on LAB, please visit www.iclei.org/biodiversity.

Vantaa is one of 16 local governments in Finland that are currently Members of ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability.  For more information on ICLEI and its activities in Europe, please go to www.iclei.org/europe.

Source:  “Maintenance of Green Areas”, Vantaa website at www.vantaa.fi.