ABSTRACT Urban greening can enhance sustainability and liveability, through conserving biodiversity, mitigating urban heat and enhancing people’s health and wellbeing. However, urban greening is complex, as it occurs in unique ecological settings, with social, cultural and economic factors shaping the forms it takes. This raises questions about the governance of urban greening, including what counts as ‘good governance’. In this paper, we first outline principles of good governance drawn from the natural resource management context. We then present four urban greening initiatives from Melbourne Australia representing different scales, land tenures and organising structures. Following this, we analyse how governance of the four initiatives addresses good governance principles. Our analysis shows that there are diverse ways in which urban greening can be practiced and governed. The importance of more ‘informal’ initiatives should not be discounted relative to formalised initiatives, as a spectrum of approaches can be seen as strength. Further, in determining what constitutes good governance, the standards against which initiatives are assessed should be tailored to their specific circumstances, and consider impacts to the environment itself. These findings point to good urban greening governance being both situated and principled.

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实现城市绿化的良好治理：来自澳大利亚墨尔本的四项举措的见解

摘要 城市绿化可以通过保护生物多样性、减轻城市热量和提高人们的健康和福祉来提高可持续性和宜居性。然而，城市绿化是复杂的，因为它发生在独特的生态环境中，社会、文化和经济因素塑造了它的形式。这引发了关于城市绿化治理的问题，包括什么是“善治”。在本文中，我们首先概述了从自然资源管理背景中得出的善治原则。然后，我们介绍了澳大利亚墨尔本的四项城市绿化举措，代表了不同的规模、土地使用权和组织结构。在此之后，我们分析了四项举措的治理如何满足良好治理原则。我们的分析表明，城市绿化的实施和管理方式多种多样。相对于正式的举措，不应忽视更多“非正式”举措的重要性，因为一系列方法可以被视为优势。此外，在确定什么构成良好治理时，评估举措所依据的标准应根据其具体情况量身定制，并考虑对环境本身的影响。这些发现表明，良好的城市绿化治理既是定位的，也是有原则的。评估举措所依据的标准应适合其具体情况，并考虑对环境本身的影响。这些发现表明，良好的城市绿化治理既是定位的，也是有原则的。评估举措所依据的标准应适合其具体情况，并考虑对环境本身的影响。这些发现表明，良好的城市绿化治理既是定位的，也是有原则的。