Challenges and Opportunities for Urban Green Areas' Development

As urban green areas are centers of public recreation and rendezvous, they should be incorporated in the city master plan in order to get proper management and development. However, these urban areas, especially cooperative housing green areas and street trees in Addis Ababa are facing problems related to their development and management. The prime objectives of this study are therefore to find out challenges and opportunities for the development and management of cooperative housing green areas and street trees. To deal the issue under study effectively, the study employed mixed research methods and used questionnaire, in-depth interview, focus group discussion, observation, and desk review for data collection. Therefore,the study is significant in terms of identifying the challenges and opportunities for the development and management of cooperative housing green areas and street trees in Nifas silk Lafto Sub-city within Addis Ababa

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Gebrye Kefelew G/mariam has got MA degree in Urban Development and Management with a background in Geography and Environmental studies from AAU. He has worked as Geography and environmental studies teacher in government school. Now, he is working as MERL officer within the NGO sector. He is also personally interested by sustainable development work