ABSTRACT
Mexico has not been an exception to the vast set of challenges to sustainability. Issues of pollution, loss of bio-diversity and deforestation of natural areas, erosion, loss of soils and water resources are critical issues to be addressed. Historically, Mexicans have had a strong disposition to use urban and sub urban green open spaces intensively; this use has been intimately related to culturally important activities, including leisure, religious assembly, and scientific investigation, among other types of activities. Identifying the role of main actors involved in the planning and management of green open spaces is a fundamental condition in developing strategies as well as implementation and monitoring tools. In Mexico, schemes to incorporate community involvement exist both in the legislation and in practice as well evident in the increasingly wide range of Non-governmental organization (NGOs) working in the environmental field in Mexico.
