Amenity Horticulture II

Lesson Structure

There are 7 lessons in this course:

1. Adapting Amenity Horticulture to Changing Needs
   • What is an amenity horticulture site
   • Challenges of amenity horticulture: political, social, economic, environmental
   • Management of Amenity horticulture sites
   • Defining a mission, vision, goals and activities planning
   • Ensuring that the above are reached or planned within a specified timeframe
   • Managing budgets
   • Managing human resources
   • Managing material resources
   • Managing natural resources
   • Management options
   • Amenity sites; horticultural displays
   • Management framework
   • Types of organisational structures
   • Chains of command
2. Macro Panning for Amenity Land Provision
   • Macro planning introduction
   • What to plan for
   • Principles of neighbourhood planning
   • What is a community
   • Principles of leisure facility planning, including sports grounds
3. Resources and Information
   • Information sources
   • PBL project to create and present a report that identifies, describes and uses up-to-date information sources relating to changing influences on the amenity industry
4. Social, Cultural and Environmental Impacts
   • Introduction
   • Comparing positive and negative aspects of different factors
   • Examples of environmentally driven management decisions
   • Cultural, social and environmental issues
5. Economic Impacts
   • Financing amenity horticulture sites
   • What are we funding
   • Funding sources
   • Funding amounts
   • Human resource management
   • Volunteer management
   • Material resources management
6. Community Involvement
   • Amenity horticulture and the community
   • Where might you find community participation
   • Community needs or wants: not always the same
   • What motivates community involvement
   • Community participation to develop parks and playgrounds
7. Developing a Management Plan
   • PBL project to create and present a management plan for an amenity horticulture site.
   • Components of a management plan
   • What to do to make those plans come true
   • Staff morale and enthusiasm
   • Involving the community so that they take responsibility
   • Solving the budget problem without cutting on services

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.