Criteria for Sustainable Landscape Maintenance: Addressing Cost Implication

Abstract

The upkeeping of urban public parks involves tedious maintenance to sure their functionality, purpose and it involves an immense amount to maintain our public parks. This mixed-methodology research examines the cost-efficiency and strategies to mitigate this issue. The first phase established an experts’ verified checklist of maintenance procedures establishing the themes, parameters, and attributes for cost-effective maintenance. Phase two involves Semi-structured Interviews with selected professionals and practitioners focusing on issues related to the current landscape maintenance practice and its operational cost. The study’s findings suggest six components that link effective maintenance with cost-efficiency. Keywords: Urban Parks, Maintenance Procedure, Cost-effective, Sustainable Maintenance Process eISSN: 2398-4287 © 2022. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BYNC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.