Combining Aesthetic with Ecological Values for Landscape Sustainability

Combining Aesthetic with Ecological Values for Landscape Sustainability

Humans receive multiple benefits from various landscapes that foster ecological services and aesthetic attractiveness. In this study, a hybrid framework was proposed to evaluate ecological and aesthetic values of five landscape types in Houguanhu Region of central China. Data from the public aesthetic survey and professional ecological assessment were converted into a two-dimensional coordinate...

The evolution of societal values compatible with ecological sustainability

Environmental Values and Landscape Architecture: A New Ecological Paradigm Study

Environmental Values and Landscape Architecture: A New Ecological Paradigm Study

Ecological Design of Urban Landscape

Paying attention to the spatial placement of the elements (man-made or natural) based on the landscape pattern and ecological processes in urban design would have a considerable impact on both human and the nature. In a way that the discords in the placement of patchs in respect to each other, or in respect to visual corridors and urban matrixes lead to the unwanted results in the cities. The e...

Aesthetic Values in Chemistry

This paper investigates the role of aesthetic values in chemical research with regard to the sensual qualities of materials; microscopic structures with a particular focus on symmetry; molecular representations in supramolecular chemistry; chemical experimentation; and mathematical modeling in chemical engineering and physical chemistry. I argue that aesthetic values are important motivation an...