Maintenance of public and private urban green infrastructure provides significant employment in Eastern Cape towns, South Africa:

King, A; Shackleton, Charlie M

Title: Maintenance of public and private urban green infrastructure provides significant employment in Eastern Cape towns, South Africa:
Creator: King, A
Creator: Shackleton, Charlie M
Date Issued: 2020
Date: 2020
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176074
Identifier: vital:42657
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126740
Description: Urban green infrastructure (UGI) provides numerous environmental, social and economic benefits through direct and indirect use of ecosystem services. The maintenance of UGI also provides work opportunities for skilled and unskilled workers in the public and private sectors, so-called green collar jobs. However, the extent and benefit of such employment has rarely been examined, especially in a developing country context where unemployment is often high. We quantified the number of green collar jobs and wage levels across all green collar categories in 12 towns of the Eastern Cape via means of questionnaires and interviews. Overall, we enumerated 17 429 jobs, receiving approximately ZAR503 million (US$37 million) per year. The number of jobs was strongly linked to town size, but the number of jobs per unit area was inversely related to the level of underdevelopment or deprivation per town.
Format: 11 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
Relation: King, A. and Shackleton, C.M., 2020. Maintenance of public and private urban green infrastructure provides significant employment in Eastern Cape towns, South Africa. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 54, p.126740
Relation: Urban Forestry and Urban Greening volume 54 number p. 126740 2020 1618-8667
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