From the Viewpoint of Landscape Ecology to Explore Landscape Perception
Date Issued
2011
Date
2011
Author(s)
Hsiao, Chun-Yuan
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of different ecological environment on people’s preference, perceived naturalness and safety for natural landscape. Through the viewpoint of landscape ecology, we use two ways to define the concept of ecological environment: (1) regional environment and (2) biodiversity. In regional environment study, according to the concepts of strategic point and edge effect theory, we define ecological environment as three landscape types: landscape in the forest (F), landscape on the edge of forest (E) and landscape out of forest (O). The photo evaluation method were adopted in this study, 101 respondents’ responses were collected. The result showed that landscape in the forest was the most preferred one and had the highest rating of coherence, mystery and complexity. But they also felt unsafe the most in the forest. In biodiversity environment study, the biodiversity were used to define different ecological environments. Bird diversity was used as environmental indicators in this study and we collected 32 sites’ bird data of numbers and species. Three landscape types: high (H), medium (M) and low (L) was classified according to bird diversity. Onsite photo of the landscape that represented the three different landscape types of ecological environments were showed to the 313 participants to collect their response. The result showed that people prefer landscape of medium biodiversity the most. Comparing to high and low biodiversity landscape, people would have higher sense of coherence, mystery, legibility and safety. The most natural environment was not the most favorite one. From the verification of two studies, we could understand that people have different perception for different ecological environments. When the environment has the features of coherence and mystery, people would get higher preference. It could be used as reference in land development and environmental protection in the future.
Subjects
Ecological
preference
naturalness
safety
SDGs
Type
thesis
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