Because it is a dynamic and ever changing resource, the conservation and development of the landscape cannot be simply achieved by the implementation of one-off plans and designs. These need to be accompanied by an ongoing management and maintenance input, which involves monitoring, moulding and intervening to shape the long-term development of the landscape.
The landscape management task is a very varied one, ranging from the strategic considerations of managing sections of the landscape resource as a whole and the associated budgets, through the management of different kinds of vegetation, water bodies and the maintenance of hard surfaces and equipment, through to the management of people - both the members of management and maintenance team as well as the users of a landscape.

- Strategic considerations: Organisational structures: management vs. maintenance;
- Management plans; specification for management and maintenance
- Management of designed and protected landscapes; management of historic gardens
- Managing urban vegetation: amenity grassland; sports pitches; woody vegetation; street trees and tree surgery
- Composting and recycling of organic matter; economic uses for landscape products (hay, coppice poles, thinnings
- Maintenance of hard surfaces, furniture and equipment
- Management and maintenance of water bodies: ponds, lakes, pools and fountains
- Managing semi-natural and nature-like landscapes: woodlands scrub meadows; forbs; aquatic vegetation
- Agriculture and forestry techniques
- Specifications for management and maintenance operations plant and equipment for landscape maintenance
- Managing people: History of the professions and professionalisation of disciplines
- Financial management: maintenance budgets and management costs