Introduction
 
Green spaces come in many different forms, from tiny scraps of overgrown land left over from development, used by local children to play hide and seek, to stone paved civic squares, and from closely manicured sport pitches to the meadows, marshes and woodlands of urban Wildlife Sites. They can be publicly owned or private. They can be accessible to local people, or they can be fenced off and locked away. Either way they all contribute to the valuable green network of our living environment and enable the countryside to come into town, improving the built environment aesthetically and environmentally and also retaining and increasing the variety of life around where we live and work.
 
1.0.1) The need for action

1.1) Sheffield's natural green space

1.1.1) Emotional benefits
1.1.2) Health and well being
1.1.3) Economic benefits

1.2) Agenda 21 and sustainability

1.2.1) What is sustainability all about
1.2.2) The Agenda 21 document

Example 1 Green City Action

1.3) Biodiversity

1.3.1) What is biodiversity?
1.3.2) Conserving biodiversity
1.3.3) Why is it so important?

Example 2 The Water Vole

1.4) The Sheffield Nature Conservation Strategy

1.4.1) Aims and objectives of the Nature Conservation Strategy
1.4.2) Sheffield Nature Conservation Strategy site designations

1.5) Other areas of green space

1.5.1) Formal open spaces
1.5.2) Wildlife Corridors
1.5.3) Woodlands

Example 3 Trees of Time and Place