Landscape preference (LP) is often a critical interdisciplinary research topic that explores the interaction between human beings and their environments. Human preferences for landscape can have profound influence on how preservation, reconstruction, restoration of approached, both consciously unconsciously. Theories LP emerged in 1960s be divided into three need categories: (1) survival, (2) a...

This paper reports data from a residential landscape preference study conducted in Delaware, USA. The researchers constructed an ecologically designed exurban residential landscape, which delivered 20 new environmental and human-related impacts, including 7 that delivered ecosystem services. Ecosystem services included impacts such as improved flood control and enhanced plant diversity. Using p...

We conducted a national survey on high-quality internet panel to study landscape preferences in Norway, using photos as stimuli. examined preference heterogeneity with respect socio-demographic characteristics and latent topics brought up by the respondents, ordinal logistic regression structural topic modelling (STM), machine learning-based analysis. found that pasture landscapes are most favo...

Female preferences for male mating signals are often evaluated on single parameters in isolation or small suites of characters. Most signals, however, are composites of many individual parameters. In this study we quantified multivariate traits in the advertisement call of the túngara frog, Physalaemus pustulosus. We represented the calls in multidimensional scaling space and chose nine test ca...

Studies of the “human dimension” of landscapes have become increasingly important in landscape also as a “place” with its meanings and contributions to societal identity. In this chapter, we present some of the key theories of landscape experience and empirical research related to those theories. They are grouped around three concepts: First, we survey theories dealing with landscapes perceived...

Developing an explanatory theoretical model of website usability is pivotal for understanding usable website design. Such a model would explain and help predict the effects of website usability on online purchases, but few studies have been devoted to such model development. As an exploratory effort, we adopted and extended Kaplan’s landscape preference model by including factors of legibility,...