“…In particular, the three major stream restoration functions can be imagined by a visual imagination survey with individual persons. Visual image‐based surveys measuring residents' perception have been critical as a communicating process within the environment as a focus for social and political concern since the rise of the postmodern environmental movement (Hansen & Cox, ). Visual resource‐oriented environmental perception research can be defined as a research process that theorizes and empirically examines, using a variety of methods, how visual imagery in the broadest sense (photographs, film, scientific/graphical representations using charts and graphs, maps, models, drawings, cartoons, paintings, artistic exhibits, installations, or performances) communicates and conveys messages about environmental conditions.…”