Plans, policies and reports
Our collective Taonga: Urban forest plan
A plan for the future of Auckland's urban forest
Contents |
Introduction |
Challenges facing the urban forest |
How do we want the urban forest to develop? |
Action plan |
Monitoring and review |
Glossary of terms
Glossary of terms
| Asset management planning |
the asset-related planning function carried out with the objective of ensuring prudent management of assets owned on behalf
of citizens. The asset management plan is the primary output of this function, which combines multi-disciplinary management
techniques (including technical and financial) over the lifecycle of the asset in the most cost effective manner to provide a
specific level of service. Auckland City is scoping the approach to asset management planning for its trees in
order to incorporate trees and their wide benefits within the Parks, open spaces and street environments asset management plan. |
| Biodiversity |
the variability among living organisms from all sources. This includes diversity within species, between species and of
ecosystems |
| Ecosystem |
the complex of living organisms, their physical environment, and all their interrelationships in a particular unit of
space. An ecosystem approach is the integrated management of land, water and living resources that promotes conservation and
sustainable use in an equitable way. |
| Environmental Management System |
a management tool which enables an organisation to identify, manage and achieve environmental performance improvements to
reduce the adverse effects of their operations on the environment |
| Open space network plan |
a local area plan applying and testing the principles of the council's open space framework |
| Urban forest |
represents ecosystems characterised by the presence of trees and the other vegetation in association with human developments |
Published February 2008
