Landscape image sketches of forests in Japan and Russia

Ueda, Hirofumi; Nakajima, Toshihiro; Takayama, Nobuki; Петрова, Елена; Matsushima, Hajime; Furuya, Katsunori; Aoki, Yoshio

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2012.01.002

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“…Public perception-based approaches [1][2][3][4] to assessing landscape quality have been actively used in landscape assessment studies, complementing the shortcomings of expert-led approaches [5][6][7]. Based on the European Landscape Convention (ELC), efforts are being made to reflect public perception within landscape management and policy in practice.…”

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Exploring Landscape Perceptions of Bukhansan National Park According to the Degree of Visitors’ Experience

Lee

Son

2017

Sustainability

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This study explores differing landscape perceptions of Bukhansan National Park according to the degree of visitors' familiarity, and discusses the utilization of commonality and diversity of landscape perception in sustainable landscape management. Visitor-employed photography (VEP) was used to capture the overall response to experiencing landscape directly on-site. According to the degree of familiarity of national parks, visitors were recruited into two groups: inexperienced group (the novice group) and experienced group (the veteran group). We collected photographs and photo-logs of liked and disliked landscape from the participants. Additional interviews were conducted to supplement the content of the photo-logs. The objects of landscape were classified into spatial configurations and specific elements. The cognitive process of landscape perception is divided into four stages: perceptual, expressive, interpretative, and symbolic. Emphasizing the narrative aspects of landscape, accepting and interpreting the phenomenon can vary according to an individual's interest and background. We used semantic network analysis to analyze the content of participants' photo-logs. The content at the interpretative level showed that the two groups had very different perceptions of anthropic elements. The novice group emphasized walkability and accessibility, while the veteran group regarded naturalness and historicity as more important. In conclusion, it is a very useful way to analyze the differences of perceptions of two visitors, both the novice group and the veteran group to grasp the positive or negative perceptions of people's impacts on the landscape. Understanding the value of relevant visitors through analysis results is one way to resolve potential conflicts.

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Exploring Landscape Perceptions of Bukhansan National Park According to the Degree of Visitors’ Experience

Lee

Son

2017

Sustainability

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“…However, the Irkutsk and Kamchatka respondents did not actually identify any subgroups of forest landscapes. Ueda et al (2012) obtained similar results when analyzing sketches of forest landscape images made by Russian and Japanese respondents. In the Japanese research sites, 'close-up view' was the predominant category followed by 'bird's-eye view.'…”

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Comparing the visual perception and aesthetic evaluation of natural landscapes in Russia and Japan: cultural and environmental factors

Петрова

Mironov

Aoki

et al. 2015

Prog. in Earth and Planet. Sci.

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Japan and Russia have deeply rooted cultural traditions regarding natural landscape appreciation, share a common border, and have areas with similar natural environments. They differ, however, in cultural, historical, and economic aspects. The purpose of this study was to reveal the similarities and differences between Russian and Japanese respondents regarding the visual and emotional evaluation of landscapes based on ethno-cultural and regional differences. We asked respondents at universities in Russia (Moscow, Irkutsk, and Kamchatka) and Japan (Hokkaido, Chiba, and Miyazaki) to group and rate 70 landscape images. Unlike theoretical concepts that explain landscape preferences within an evolutionary framework or according to individual and cultural differences, we found that these factors interact in more complicated ways. Cultural traditions and features of the natural environment that were familiar to respondents influenced their visual perception and aesthetic evaluation of landscape. Russian respondents seemed more emotional while Japanese respondents tended to be more restrained in their assessments. However, there was a strong correlation between their estimates of landscape attractiveness, which might confirm the existence of universal human concepts of landscape aesthetics. The most attractive for both Russian and Japanese respondents were waterfalls, mountains, and lakes; waterless plains were the least attractive. At the same time, we found cross-cultural differences in assessing seacoasts, rivers, forests, and swampy plains. There was practically no correlation between Russian and Japanese respondents in their appreciation of exotic/familiar landscapes. For the Russian respondents, the most exotic landscapes were also the most attractive, although we did not observe such a tendency for the Japanese. All respondents appreciated certain familiar landscapes that were symbols of native nature as very attractive. Unlike 'geoscientific' landscape classifications, in the visual and emotional grouping of landscapes, the most important feature appeared to be the presence/absence of water and the type of water basin (river, lake, and sea); for Russian respondents (especially Muscovites), topography was also important, while the Japanese respondents mostly used visual and seasonal characteristics in their classifications. All Japanese respondents assessed the attractiveness and exoticism of landscapes almost identically, while there were some differences among Russian respondents from different regions.

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“…This result is consistent for books in four main languages (English, French, German and Italian) and for books in both American and British English. Further research is needed to investigate this pattern in other languages that can be studied using the same search engine (i.e., Chinese, Hebrew, Spanish and Russian), so as to test for cross-cultural differences in public understanding of forest health and tree diseases (Kohsaka & Handoh, 2006;Ueda et al, 2012;Eriksson et al, 2015). However, not all studied terms show a decrease in recent years: there has been a recent increase in the use of terms such as 'ecosystem health' in the studied books ( Figs S2-S6).…”

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Long‐term trends in books of terms related to forest pathology

Pautasso

2015

EPPO Bulletin

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Scientometric and bibliometric methods are increasingly applied to study temporal trends in scientific outputs, but there has been little application in plant and forest health. This research note uses the Google Books N‐Grams search engine to explore temporal trends in the use of terms related to forest pathology in published books. The search was performed for books in American and British English, French, German and Italian. There is evidence for a relative decline in the use of the term ‘forest pathology’, since the 1950s in books in American English and since the 1990s in books in British English. This decline was counterbalanced by a relative increase in the use of the term ‘forest health’ between the 1980s and the end of the 1990s, whereas the term ‘tree diseases’ roughly followed the same trend as ‘forest pathology’. A declining trend was observed for ‘pathologie forestière’ (since the 1980s), both ‘Waldschutz’ and ‘Forstschutz’ (since the 1990s), as well as ‘patologia forestale’ (since the 1950s). The use of the terms ‘dendrology’, ‘forest entomology’, ‘forest genetics’, ‘mycology’, ‘plant pathology’ appears to have followed the trend observed for ‘forest pathology’ in all studied languages. Conversely, there has been an increase in books mentioning topics such as ‘ecosystem health’ and ‘old‐growth forests.’ The trends observed here call for increased efforts to make the public aware of trees, their diseases and the health of forests.

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Landscape image sketches of forests in Japan and Russia

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Exploring Landscape Perceptions of Bukhansan National Park According to the Degree of Visitors’ Experience

Exploring Landscape Perceptions of Bukhansan National Park According to the Degree of Visitors’ Experience

Comparing the visual perception and aesthetic evaluation of natural landscapes in Russia and Japan: cultural and environmental factors

Long‐term trends in books of terms related to forest pathology

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