Table 2.

Governance of urban green areas in Latin America typology.

Type	Sub-Types/Description	Cases
Municipality Agency A municipality agency is in charge of managing public urban green areas.	Public Services This is the most frequent governance model, where an office within Public Services Direction or Secretariat is in charge of maintaining and operating parks and other urban green areas, such as medians, gardens, roundabouts and others. Inter-agency An office (for instance, Sports, Youth, or Environmental Resources) that is in charge of the strategic decisions related to urban green spaces —such as landscaping based on a vegetation palette or defining the activities allowed within the urban green space. Importantly, a different municipality office is in charge of maintenance and some operation decisions.	Argentina City of Salta Colombia Bogota (Instituto Distrital de Recreación y Deporte) Guatemala Municipality of Guatemala Municipality of Villanueva Mexico Jesús María Zacatecas León, Guanajuato (Inter-Agency) Ecuador Cuenca
Dedicated management Characterized by the existence of an entity (frequently organically linked to a state or municipal government) in charge of planning, maintaining and operating a single urban park.	Public Management A decentralized office, under state or municipal supervision, is in charge of Metropolitan parks or long linear parks. Private Management A private entity (e.g. neighborhood association) manages a public urban park. Not-for-Profit usufruct A NGO is in charge of managing and getting funding for a park under the figure of usufruct	Ecuador Quito Ecological corridors at hydroelectric Project at historical downtown of Quito Mexico Park Tamayo in San Pedro Garza Public park La Mexicana in Mexico City (private management) Aguascalientes (Centro de Educación Ambiental Landeros) Guatemala Parque Ciudad Nueva in Guatemala Peru Greenspace within gated communities
Polycentric management Planning, operation and maintenance of a network of parks are responsibilities shared by agencies of different levels of government.	There are many combinations in which local and state level governments collaborate.	Mexico Urban Parks managed by Agencia Metropolitana de Bosques