The present study replicates and extends Mealey and Theis's (1993) research on the way in which moods adaptively incline individuals toward different types of landscapes. Mealey and Theis hypothesized that positive moods encourage exploration, so they predicted that individuals reporting positive moods would prefer landscapes marked by Prospect (vast expanses and overviews). They hypothesized t...

the main purpose of this study is to investigate the preferences of urban dwellers for variouselements of urban parks in order to provide some important suggestions for rehabilitation of urban deficient parks. inthis regard, this study has conducted a survey in one of the oldest parks in khorramabad, iran, to reveal the overallsatisfaction of the park situation and to explore the preferences of...

This paper examines landscape preferences of residents in amenity-rich bushfire-prone landscapes in New South Wales, Australia. Insights are provided into vegetation preferences in areas where properties neighbor large areas of native vegetation, such as national parks, or exist within a matrix of cleared and vegetated private and public land. In such areas, managing fuel loads in the proximity...

Extensive outbreaks of tree-killing insects are increasing across forests in Europe and North America due to climate change and other factors. Yet, little recent research examines visitor response to visual changes in conifer forest recreation settings resulting from forest insect infestations, how visitors weigh trade-offs between physical and social forest environment factors, or how visitor ...

This paper presents a framework showing how computer generated landscape visualisations could be used for the challenging and developing of theory within landscape preference research; thereby eliminating site specific situations and looking at more general preferences for landscape patterns and compositions. The paper draws on methods and results from previous research in an effort to present ...

There is increasing awareness of the need to monitor trends in our constantly changing agricultural landscapes. Monitoring programmes often use remote sensing data and focus on changes in land cover/land use in relation to values such as biodiversity, cultural heritage and recreation. Although a wide range of indicators is in use, landscape aesthetics is a topic that is frequently neglected. Ou...

2/ Professor of Ecology and Assistant Professor of Ecology. Departamento de Ecología. Universidad Autónoma. C-XV. Madrid (34) Spain. Abstract: Analysis of landscape preferences allows the detection of major dimensions as:(1) the opposition between "natural and humanized", (comprising features like vegetation cover, cultivation, pattern of landscape elements, artifacts, excavations, etc.); (2) a...