Running before we can walk: are we ready to map ‘beauty’?

Appleton, Jay

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“…First, landscape vistas were being evaluated on site. Here, we refer to Appleton's (1994) definition of landscape as 'a way of seeing'. Evaluating landscapes on site comes close to the statement that landscape is to be discovered in the relationship between the individual and his environment, in short in ''experience'' (Appleton,1996, p. 43).…”

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Cognitive attributes and aesthetic preferences in assessment and differentiation of landscapes

Sevenant

Antrop

2009

Journal of Environmental Management

152

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Cognitive attributes and aesthetic preferences in assessment and differentiation of landscapes

Sevenant

Antrop

2009

Journal of Environmental Management

152

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“…Studies of this type have attracted considerable academic debate and criticism, primarily relating to the aggregation of synthetic landscapes from pre-selected components and from the biases inherent in the values and preferences of experts involved in subjective assessments in the eld (Duf eld & Coppock, 1975;Gold, 1980). Appleton (1994) presents a powerful polemic against the use of such techniques where, in particular, the 1975 Manchester Landscape Evaluation Research Project is shown as an example of the extent to which subjective and relatively arbitrary assumptions are built into the system. Similarly, Kaplan (quoted in Nasar, 1988) noted that although experts are invaluable when used appropriately, they are unreliable as objective judges of what people care about in the landscape.…”

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Assessing Public Perception of Landscape: The LANDMAP experience

Scott¹

2002

Landscape Research

107

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Assessing public perception of landscape continues to be both an academic and a policy challenge. The involvement of the public in landscape matters has been and continues to be both controversial and problematic. Constraints of time and resources, together with a reluctance to delegate responsibility to the public, have generally limited the scope and in uence of much participation to conventional reactive strategies. The potential of a new methodology to identify public perception of landscape in Denbighshire is assessed. Forming part of a wider initiative known as LANDMAP, a technique adopted by the Countryside Council for Wales for identifying distinctive landscape areas, household questionnaires and focus groups have been used to evaluate public perception in response to carefully selected photographic media. The results afford important insights into public perception and allow particular landscape types to be evaluated in both quantitative and qualitative terms. Analysis of the results for two selected areas shows that the public has strong attachments to managed rural landscapes in general, and wishes to see more integrative and participative strategies for landscape protection and management. Such attitudes challenge planners and policy makers to rethink their approaches towards conventional landscape management strategies and planning.

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“…This was already noticed with APPLETON's (1994) example of trees in open marshland. Thus, focusing on one particular area and considering only hypothetical landscape changes small enough to avoid shifts of landscape type has the advantage of ensuring stability in the relationships of attributes to value.…”

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“…APPLETON (1994) andPRICE (1991) stress the role of the composition of attributes in the whole scene in explaining this phenomenon. DEARDEN and ROSENBLOOD (1980) accept that one component can be differently valued in the presence of others.…”

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Valuing alternative bundles of landscape attributes: cost-benefit analysis for the selection of optimal landscapes

Santos¹

2012

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-The role of landscape valuation and extended cost-benefit analysis in landscape conservation decision-making is first addressed. It is stressed that substantial research on how to value alternative conservation schemes is required, in order to cope with emerging policy needs. An analytical frame for the valuation of alternative landscape conservation schemes is then discussed. This frame enables the analyst to sequentially disaggregate values for whole landscape changes over attributes. This is an essential operation if the optimal bundle of landscape attributes is to be selected by cost-benefit analysis. The concept of substitution between landscape attributes plays an essential role within the whole analytical frame. The circumstances that lead to anticipate substitution between landscape attributes are explored. A brief review of the alternative empirical strategies for landscape valuation is then carried out, to check whether they permit sequential desegregation of landscape value over attributes. Next, an empirical application to the valuation of landscape attribute changes in the Pennine Dales Environmentally Sensitive Area is presented. The empirical results confirm the idea of the prevalence of substitution in valuation in most practical contexts. To illustrate the potential of the proposed approach, a sequential cost-benefit analysis of attribute changes along consistent paths of aggregation is then carried out -which eventually leads to the selection of optimal bundles of landscape attributes. Some problems and limitations of the approach are also discussed. Among them, the question of non-uniqueness, or path dependency of the optimum is given particular consideration. Resumo -VALORAÇÃO DE MUDANÇAS PAISAGÍSTICAS MULTI-ATRIBUTOS: UMA ANÁLISECUSTO-BENEFÍCIO PARA A SELECÇÃO DE PAISAGENS ÓPTIMAS. Abordam-se primeiramente os papéis da valoração económica da paisagem e da análise custo-benefício no quadro da concepção e avaliação de programas de conservação da paisagem, colo-Professor Auxiliar, Departamento de Economia Agrária e Sociologia Rural, Instituto Superior de Agronomia.Uma versão anterior deste artigo foi apresentada na 7.ª Conferência Anual da EAERE (European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists), realizada em Lisboa (1996). O autor agradece ao Professor Ken Willis (Universidade de Newcastle) e ao Professor Fernando Oliveira Baptista (Universidade Técnica de Lisboa) o seu apoio e comentários a uma versão preliminar deste artigo. Todas as opiniões e erros são, naturalmente, da responssabilidade exclusiva do autor. A investigação que esteve na origem do artigo foi financiada pela JNICT (bolsa PRAXIS XXI/BD/4519/94) e o inquérito referido no texto foi financiado pelo Environmental

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Running before we can walk: are we ready to map ‘beauty’?

Cited by 19 publications

References 4 publications

Cognitive attributes and aesthetic preferences in assessment and differentiation of landscapes

Cognitive attributes and aesthetic preferences in assessment and differentiation of landscapes

Assessing Public Perception of Landscape: The LANDMAP experience

Valuing alternative bundles of landscape attributes: cost-benefit analysis for the selection of optimal landscapes

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