Managing Urban Green Areas: The Benefits of Collaborative Governance for Green Spaces
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors have presented a manuscript, describing the managing urban green areas. Following, I have included some comments to improve the manuscript.
1. I suggest to the authors to add a new section detailing the state of the art. In this section, authors have to describe the relevant related work in which explain.
2. Can the authors include at the end of the introduction, more details of the objectives of their study.
3. On line 684 you must put the date of the bibliographic reference of number 14 in bold.
4. On line 688 you must put the date of the bibliographic reference of number 16 in bold.
5. On line 702 put the year of bibliographic reference number 23.
6. On line 724 you must put the date of the bibliographic reference of number 32 in bold.
7. On line 725 you must put the date of the bibliographic reference of number 33 in bold.
8. This work presents very interesting results and practice to increase the managing urban green areas. I think that the authors can improve the format of results demonstration. The authors can highlight better the importance of the results obtained.
- Conclusions Consider extending the conclusions and adding a Future works paragraph. The summary and Conclusions, it is better to combine them in only section of conclusions.
Finally, the review is interesting and presents considerable information on the possibilities of managing urban Green areas and its possibilities for supplementation effects, but authors must improve the presentation of their results, discussion and conclusion. The topic in interesting, but the study lacks more details with precision, and concrete conclusion that will help farmers to improve or to change their strategies.
Author Response
Thanks for the meaningful comments, they have been highly appreciated in order to revise the paper. The suggestions were followed in order to enhance the quality of the manuscript: the state of the art has been better pictured in the text and literature review section has been enhanced. In addition, the objectives of the study have been better described in the introduction. Considerations about the relevance of the study have been addend in the discussion part.
Reviewer 2 Report
Abstract：
（1）The introduction of the background information in the ABSTRACT is too long, please condense it into one or two sentences.
（2）Line 25: Revise “we will, ayalyse” to “we analyzed”.
（3）Please add one or two sentences at the end of Abstract to illustrate the implications of this study。
Introduction:
(1) I suggest the authors cite the following references in the Introduction section to relate this study to the broader field of ecosystem-based approaches for urban sustainability. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2023.104843, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2018.12.063, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.11.106
(2) Please clearly state what questions will this study intend to answer in the Introduction section.
Literature review:
(1) Please clearly tell the readers how the literature review was conducted.
Analytical framework:
(1) Please justify the rationality of the analytical framework.
Case study:
（1）what are the purpose of this case study? Did the authors use the case study to illustrate the analytical framework?
Results and discussion.
（1）I suggest that the authors separate the results and discussion section. In the current version, readers can’t identify what does the authors find from the literature review.
Moderate editing of English language required
Author Response
Thanks a lot for the feedback provided, they have been fruitful to review the paper. The theoretical background (literature review) part has been expanded and references has been made to how the research was conducted. The research question and objectives have been made more clear in the introduction paragraph.
The rationale of the analytical framework has been included so has the criteria for selection of the case study. Findings and discussion have been divided into two separate paragraphs.
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
All my concerns have been addressed.
Minor editing of English language required
