The Psychological Utility of Visual Penetration in near-view Forest Scenic-Beauty Models

Ruddell, Edward; Gramann, James H.; Rudis, Victor A.; Westphal, Joanne M.

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“…Psychophysical models can produce concrete knowledge for planning and management purposes but nevertheless they lack theoretical content (Ruddell et al 1989). For example, psychophysical models do not explain why people like or dislike certain landscape features.…”

Section: Approaches To Study Landscape Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Spaciousness can be defined, for example, as "spaciousness that the scene conveys, how much room there is to wander in" (Herzog 1984(Herzog , 1985(Herzog , 1987. Visual access or visual penetration imply that the vegetative foreground exists, while openness and viewing distance can refer either to near-views or vistas in which the vegetative foregrounds are absent (Ruddell et al 1989).…”

Section: Psycho-evolutionary or Affective Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The visual preferences for forest regeneration and field afforestation - four case studies in Finland

Karjalainen¹

2006

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The overall aim of this dissertation was to study the public's preferences for forest regeneration fellings and field afforestations, as well as to find out the relations of these preferences to landscape management instructions, to ecological healthiness, and to the contemporary theories for predicting landscape preferences. This dissertation includes four case studies in Finland, each based on the visualization of management options and surveys.Guidelines for improving the visual quality of forest regeneration and field afforestation are given based on the case studies. The results show that forest regeneration can be connected to positive images and memories when the regeneration area is small and some time has passed since the felling. Preferences may not depend only on the management alternative itself but also on the viewing distance, viewing point, and the scene in which the management options are implemented.The current Finnish forest landscape management guidelines as well as the ecological healthiness of the studied options are to a large extent compatible with the public's preferences. However, there are some discrepancies. For example, the landscape management instructions as well as ecological hypotheses suggest that the retention trees need to be left in groups, whereas people usually prefer individually located retention trees to those trees in groups. Information and psycho-evolutionary theories provide some possible explanations for people's preferences for forest regeneration and field afforestation, but the results cannot be consistently explained by these theories.The preferences of the different stakeholder groups were very similar. However, the preference ratings of the groups that make their living from forest -forest owners and forest professionals -slightly differed from those of the others. These results provide support for the assumptions that preferences are largely consistent at least within one nation, but that knowledge and a reference group may also influence preferences.

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Section: Approaches To Study Landscape Qualitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Psycho-evolutionary or Affective Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The visual preferences for forest regeneration and field afforestation - four case studies in Finland

Karjalainen¹

2006

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“…This approach selects individual stimnli in the landscape and then develops mathematical models in order to explain the human response to the stimuli. Many of these models are oriented toward measuring the effect of a singlefactor stimulus such as waterflow quantity (Brown and Daniel, 1991), atmospheric optical quality (Landphair, 1979) or forest visual quality (Ruddell et al, 1989). Other models have expanded this concept in order to determine the visual quality of entire landscapes (Shafer, 1969, Burley, 1995.…”

Section: Andscape Quality Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The strength of the psychophysical approach lies in its ability to relate change in manageable site characteristics to resulting impacts on visual quality (Ruddell et al, 1989). This model has direct applications to the field of visual quality management due to its ability to identify the portions of the landscape that elicit positive or negative responses and gauge the magnitude of change, allowing various landscape alternatives to be compared.…”

Section: Andscape Quality Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With a series of legislative actions the federal government brought the topic of enviromnental scenic quality to the forefront Laws such as the Wilderness Act of 1964, National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968, the National Trails Act of 1968, the National Enviromnental Protection Act (NEPA) of 1970, and the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 all contain articles that pertain to aesthetic quality (Ruddell et al, 1989, Leopold, 1982, Brown and Daniel, 1991, Latimer, Hogo and Daniel, 1981, Arthur, 1977. The NEPA states "it is the responsibility of the federal government to use all practical means ... (to) assure for all Americans ... aesthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings" (NEPA,sec.…”

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Post-Mining Predictive Visual Quality Assessment: A Methodology

Keefe¹,

Bnrley²

1998

ASMR

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Abstract· The study of landscape aesthetics has recently been brought into the forefront of research through the passage of various federal legislative acts which mandate the consideration of the quality of surroundings as a natural resource. Based upon relatively recent results, we believe that science based visual quality modeling has applications in reclamation projects. We developed a visual quality prediction methodology to assess various post-mining land-use treatments (housing development, agriculture, open water, naturalized vegetation, and existing condition) for surface mining applications. Our methodology allows an investigator to qunatitatively assess visual quality treatments through inferential statistics. To conduct the assessment, one must be able to digitize photographic images and construct the treatments with an imaging software package.Additional Key Words: landscape planning, land-use planning, landscape architecture, visual resource management

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Modeling aesthetics to support an ecosystem services approach for natural resource management decision making

Booth

Law

et al. 2017

Integr Envir Assess & Manag

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This paper reviews literature on aesthetics and describes the development of vista and landscape aesthetics models. Spatially explicit variables were chosen to represent physical characteristics of natural landscapes that are important to aesthetic preferences. A vista aesthetics model evaluates the aesthetics of natural landscapes viewed from distances of more than 1000 m, and a landscape aesthetics model evaluates the aesthetic value of wetlands and forests within 1000 m from the viewer. Each of the model variables is quantified using spatially explicit metrics on a pixel-specific basis within EcoAIM™, a geographic information system (GIS)-based ecosystem services (ES) decision analysis support tool. Pixel values are "binned" into ranked categories, and weights are assigned to select variables to represent stakeholder preferences. The final aesthetic score is the weighted sum of all variables and is assigned ranked values from 1 to 10. Ranked aesthetic values are displayed on maps by patch type and integrated within EcoAIM. The response of the aesthetic scoring in the models was tested by comparing current conditions in a discrete area of the facility with a Development scenario in the same area. The Development scenario consisted of two 6-story buildings and a trail replacing natural areas. The results of the vista aesthetic model indicate that the viewshed area variable had the greatest effect on the aesthetics overall score. Results from the landscape aesthetics model indicate a 10% increase in overall aesthetics value, attributed to the increase in landscape diversity. The models are sensitive to the weights assigned to certain variables by the user, and these weights should be set to reflect regional landscape characteristics as well as stakeholder preferences. This demonstration project shows that natural landscape aesthetics can be evaluated as part of a nonmonetary assessment of ES, and a scenario-building exercise provides end users with a tradeoff analysis in support of natural resource management decisions. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2017;13:926-938. © 2017 SETAC.

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The Psychological Utility of Visual Penetration in near-view Forest Scenic-Beauty Models

Cited by 61 publications

References 18 publications

The visual preferences for forest regeneration and field afforestation - four case studies in Finland

The visual preferences for forest regeneration and field afforestation - four case studies in Finland

Post-Mining Predictive Visual Quality Assessment: A Methodology

Modeling aesthetics to support an ecosystem services approach for natural resource management decision making

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