Analysis of people's preferences and constraints on the viability of urban vegetation in the town of Daloa (Centre-west, Côte d'Ivoire).

In the current context of sustainable development, it is vitally important that the concerns of local people are taken into account in the planning of all urban development and management of urban green spaces.Unfortunately, most of the time, local people are not involved in the implementation of urban forest management policies.This study, carried out in the town of Daloa, has highlighted the perceptions and expectations of local people in terms of the development of urban green spaces.To do this, surveys were carried out among people in all the districts of the town.The surveys revealed that all social strata of the population attach great importance to vegetation in their environment (74% to 100%).The most common use is for ornamental purposes (25%), while the highest proportion (31% to 83%) use green spaces 1 to 20 times a month.The function of urban forests most appreciated by the population is the ecological function, but the major constraint justifying the absence of green spaces in homes is land pressure (50% to 70.21%).All this information gathered from the public must be taken into account for future urban development programmes and, above all, for the sustainability of urban green spaces.