Manejo del arbolado urbano en Bogotá

Abstract

Urban tree management in the city of Bogotá has become particularly important because it has been greatly affected by the District urban renovation and also because it is a high risk source due to the worrying physical and sanitary conditions of most of them, which result in many and frequent accidents for falling of branches or the whole structure. Since 1998, Bogotá established an institutional, legal, and technical order for the proper management of the urban woodland coverage and for ensuring thereby its survival in appropriate conditions that allow them to coexist with the urban infrastructure. This document presents the details that enabled such organization, reviews the statistics resulting from addressing the silvicultural topic in the city, and establishes a new starting point for its management based on the tree inventory as a planning tool.