ANALIZA PODATKOVNIH BAZ O MESTNIH ZELENIH POVRŠINAH KOT IZHODIŠČE ZA RAZPRAVO O POVEZAVI MED KAKOVOSTJO IN UPORABNOSTJO PODATKOV.

This article highlights the quality and usefulness of data on urban green areas in the Municipality of Ljubljana case study. The starting point of the discussion is the thesis that uncritical data collection hampers the effectiveness of managing green spaces. The survey includes data from various Slovenian and foreign sources and shows that there are significant differences between different Ljubljana green area databases. It reveals differences arising from the purposes and methods of data collection and respective concepts and phenomena interpretation, rather than universal data, such as the quantity of urban green spaces. The case study shows that such specific databases have very limited usefulness and that their Information may be misleading. Furthermore, they can be indirectly harmful for the managing of green spaces. The discussion at the end of this paper shows that the source arterioles with the management, protection and development of green areas is a lack of uniform, generally applicable starting points, such as definition of the concepts and phenomena and agreements on the managing aims of green spaces [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]