The Czech Landscape and Garden Society originated as a non-profitmaking organization in 1990 due to an urgent need to join forces andco-ordinate the effort to enhance the authority of garden and landscapedesign as a branch of architecture and to establish intensiveco-operation with state administration and self-government authoritiesin the improvement of the state of public greenery, with professionalschools in the education and training of new specialists and, last butnot least, to address the public and demonstrate the irreplaceable roleof gardening and landscaping and garden design in the creation of theenvironment.
   The statutes of the Society define the following principal goals and tasks of the Society:
• popularization of the problems of vegetation in the settlements andin the landscape, especially its significance for the environment,
• improvement of the quality of professional work performed in thedesign, foundation and maintenance, administration and protection ofsettlement, landscape or historical greenery,
• care of the improvement of the theoretical as well as practicalstandard of the members of the Society and other specialists in thefield,
• active co-operation with professional schools in the education and training of young specialists,
• co-operation with branch research.

   The members of the Society include garden and landscape architects,officials of municipal offices in charge of municipal greenery,officials of state and municipal authorities and institutions concernedwith nature and landscape protection, monument conservation ofhistorical buildings and areas, settlement and landscape development,etc., workers and executives of communal enterprises as well as privatefirms performing everyday care of vegetation in the settlements and inthe landscape, businessmen concerned with this field, research workersand scientists, teachers of professional medium-grade and hihg-gradeschools and universities and, last but not least, the students of theseschools. In 2001 the Society had 690 members.
   In the framework of its activities aimed at the enhancement of theprofessional standard in the field the Society organizes conferences,seminars, workshops, excursions, domestic and foreign tours, lecturesand conducted tours for various target groups, co-operates with otherorganizations and institutions, issues professional publications,books, brochures and collections of papers presented at the variousprofessional events organized by it.
   The Society finances its activities from the membership fees, gifts,grants and revenue from educational and publishing activities.
   In accordance with their specific interests the members of theSociety can associate and actively participate in the followingsections:
• TREE CARE SECTION
• GREENERY ADIMINISTRATION SECTION
• SECTION OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
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