Validity of photo-based scenic beauty judgments

Hull, R. Bruce; Stewart, William P.

doi:10.1016/s0272-4944(05)80063-5

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“…These are used as substitutes for actual views of the landscape (Daniel 2001). Studies in which researchers examined the expressed subjective beauty of selected landscapes show that there are no statistically significant differences between assessments of landscape beauty in photos and the assessments of the beauty expressed while perceiving these same landscapes directly on site (e.g., Stamps 1990;Hull and Stewart 1992). The criticism raised against these types of studies is primarily based on potential subjectivity, deficient standardization of methods, and repeatability of results (Bruns and Green 2001;Daniel 2001).…”

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The beauty of landforms

Smrekar¹,

Horvat²,

Erhartič³

2016

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ABSTRACT:This article determines which landforms attract people the most and whether one can speak of collective patterns in the aesthetic evaluation of a landscape. It therefore concerns enjoying the beauty offered by a more or less reshaped natural environment. This study is based on the Triglav Lakes Valley (Dolina Triglavskih jezer) in Slovenia which, due to the few man-made changes introduced there, includes hardly any anthropogenic »unnecessary noise.« The online survey included more than six hundred people and used photos of various landforms. Lakes were found to be the most attractive to the respondents, and fractured rock areas were the least attractive.

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The beauty of landforms

Smrekar¹,

Horvat²,

Erhartič³

2016

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“…The use of photographs as environmental surrogates is widely practised in landscape scenic assessment [15], with many studies suggesting that judgments based on photographs are highly correlated with on site judgements of the same area using rating scales [16][17][18][19] or other response formats [20,21].…”

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Beach users’ aesthetic and economic evaluation of a “minor change” to the hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman’s Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Blakemore

Burrell

Jones

2008

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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This study evaluated the visual impact of the new hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman's Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales. This beach had existing hard coastal defences, road, car park and dwellings, which may have lead planners' to believe that the change would not impact upon beach users' enjoyment.However, a change in coastal scenery was expressed by 79% of those surveyed, using the perceptual approach, whilst the beach classification was unaffected using two checklist models. The beach is primarily utilised by families for children's play and to enjoy the surroundings. Nearly half of the beach users had concerns with regard to the new coastal defences and were willing to pay (£1.62 per visit) to fund alternative defence methods for the remaining shoreline. A fifth of respondents were willing to pay (£1.91 per visit) for the new defences to be removed and replaced with a more natural method of sea defence. The preferred payment mode in both cases was a car parking fee. Thus, this study has found that even apparently minor changes in scenery impact markedly upon the recreational enjoyment and valuation of the beach experience.

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“…For example, Hull and Stewart (1992) compared hikers on-site and photo-based ratings of scenic beauty for a sample of mountain landscape scenes. Comparisons of group means for the views studied showed consistently high positive correlations (averaging about 0.90) between on-site ratings of scenic beauty and ratings by the same hikers based on colour prints mailed to their homes several months later.…”

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Assessing the Value of Forest Landscapes: A Choice Experiment Approach

Garrod

Ruto

Snowdon

2009

Arboricultural Journal

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Landscape planning and design occupies a major role in forest policy in the UK. Since the 1980s, UK forests have been managed increasingly for multi-purpose objectives, a policy which has been underpinned by international agreements on sustainable forestry. Within this context, there is a need to understand public preferences for forest landscapes in designing policies that meet the needs of multi-purpose forestry. This paper is based on a study to investigate public willingness to pay (WTP) for regular visual and recreational access to a wide variety of generic forest landscapes. A total of 33 forest landscapes were investigated, each of which was defined as a combination of the configuration of the planting and the landscape factors. Computer-generated images of each of these landscapes were used to underpin a series of choice experiments conducted as part of a questionnaire survey of over 400 households across Great Britain. The results confirm the importance of landscape in contributing to the social and environmental benefits provided by forests and suggests that current policies of woodland expansion may generate additional benefits especially if more woodland is located close to urban populations. The paper concludes by discussing the implications of these results for forest policy across the UK.

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Validity of photo-based scenic beauty judgments

Cited by 196 publications

References 11 publications

The beauty of landforms

The beauty of landforms

Beach users’ aesthetic and economic evaluation of a “minor change” to the hard engineering coastal defences at Wiseman’s Bridge, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Assessing the Value of Forest Landscapes: A Choice Experiment Approach

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