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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"landscape preference"”.
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Woody plant richness and landscape preference
… role in preserving biodiversity in neighborhood landscapes. The problem is we do not know the extent to which people prefer a diversity of tree species in neighborhood landscapes. Landscape preference is a quick and essential assessment of how people imagine they would function in a landscape. …
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The relationship between landscape preference and looking time: a methodological investigation
… was an investigation of the relationship between landscape preference and looking time. In the Original Experiment 100 subjects were unknowingly timed while looking at 10 slides of natural landscapes. They then ranked photographic representations of those slides for their preference of them as …
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Policy capturing with the use of visual stimuli: a method of quantifying the determinants of landscape preference
… a potential methodology for evaluating landscape preference, was described and tested. This methodology, tested and applied in industrial psychology since 1960, results in a mathematical model that theoretically represents the human decision-making process. Under experimental conditions, …
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Establishing dose-response curves for the impact of urban forests on recovery from acute stress and landscape preference
… is linear. Lack of this knowledge prevents landscape architects from making science-based design and management decisions that might improve the health and longevity of people in the communities they serve. The central research question of this dissertation is: what is the dose-response …
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Natural landscape scenic preference: techniques for evaluation and simulation.
The aesthetic beauty of a landscape is a very subjective issue: every person has their own opinions and their own idea of what beauty is. However, all people have a common evolutionary history, and, according to the Biophilia hypothesis, a genetic predisposition to liking certain types of …
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Resident Participation in Watershed Management: Preference for Riparian Landscapes, Attitudes, and Behaviors- Case Study of Cedar River Watershed, Washington
… Neighborhood in terms of their riparian landscape preference, attitudes toward environmental hazards and watershed management plans and regulations, environmental behavior, and demographic characteristics. A photo survey is hand-delivered to all households in the neighborhood along with …
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A comparison of computer simulation techniques in depicting and communicating the visual impacts of timber harvesting in the Jefferson National Forest
… has been in use by US Forest Service Landscape Architects who use it to determine the visual impact of a proposed harvest unit and manipulate the layout to reduce the impact. New programs in video imagery offer the opportunity to design harvest layouts on a more realistic format, which …
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Understanding people’s perceptions and attitudes toward community garden landscape in Roanoke, Virginia
… qualitative data. Findings showed that people’s preferences are based on several factors including content and spatial organization of the environment, maintenance level of the community garden site, and the opportunities that community gardens offer to its users and residents. Particularly, …
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Reframing the Ditch
… in a way that is consistent with visual landscape preference theory. Small stream water quality impairment is an issue found in 83% of stream headwaters in the Eastern United States. The Clean Water Act (1972), which regulates pollutant discharge into U.S. surface waters, mandates that …
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Visual topology in SDI: a data structure for modelling landscape perception
… to support the inclusion of visual analysis into landscape planning and monitoring systems. Section 2 introduces various aspects of visual topology. In particular it sets out how visual intersections of occluding edges may be modelled topologically and formally defines a novel higher level …
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Plant diversity, preference, and psychological well-being
… vegetation cover is associated with elevated landscape preferences and improved health outcomes. However, when vegetation becomes denser and appears in wilder, more natural forms, these benefits and preferences for the landscape may diminish. This decline could be attributed to concerns …
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Green stormwater infrastructure, preference, and human well-being
… greatly differ from the conventional urban landscape with mowed lawns and mature trees. Would these different forms of urban nature provides the same health benefits with trees alone? That is, to what extent do people prefer GSI as a part of urban landscape—and in extension, gain health …