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‹Research Report› Landscape Appreciation reported at the Conference of Japan Geoscience Union 2013 in term

Yoji AOKI （None）

Abstract:
It has been already 45 years since the first English paper on psychometric landscape evaluation was published. Nearly 40 years passed since Professor Appleton preached the importance of landscape experience for landscape appreciation in 1975. The criticism of quantifying landscape evaluation through photography was made 35 years ago. During the years since these events, the psychological study of landscape evaluation was firstly developed in USA and Japan then spread worldwide. By including landscape science and geography studies, landscape evaluation has been addressed in various scientific fields. However, because of the sophistication and complexity of the psychological phenomenon, it has not yet been shared in the consensus of the scientific understandings. And the researches conducted in Japan were not known in the world. A meeting on the "International Comparison of Landscape Evaluation" held at the Japan Geoscience Union (JPGU) 2013 conference on 19. May at Makuhari International Convension hall, 15 contributors had reported their results of landscape appreciation research. This kind of meeting was the first trial in the geoscience research realm. I summarize their results from the view point of landscape experience, and discuss potential avenues for the future studies.

Key Word:
landscape appreciation, landscape experience, geoscience

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