Landscape valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and indirect methods

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Autor(a) principal: Loures, Luis
Data de Publicação: 2015
Outros Autores: Loures, Ana, Nunes, José, Panagopoulos, Thomas
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/18408
Resumo: Landscape design, construction and management should no longer be the result of superficial approaches based exclusively on designers’ and planners’ ideas. This research starts with the assumption that the aesthetic component constitutes an essential attribute for better understanding and evaluating landscapes. This study analyzes the aesthetic quality and economic valuation of the Lower Guadiana river landscape, through the application of direct and indirect landscape evaluation methods. In order to gauge not only experts’ opinion, it is supported by the application of public participation techniques about the opinion and perceptions of the site visitors/users. The present research considered the analysis of six landscape subunits regarding landscape quality, fragility and visual absorption capacity. The obtained results showed that there are significant differences between the perceptions of the general public and experts’ analysis. Touristic Complexes and Golf Courses had high visual quality, while Agricultural and Production Areas had high visual fragility. Moreover, the performed analysis made clear that the combined use of landscape assessment methods is suited to this type of study, since it enables quantifying the value of existence, management and maintenance of a particular environmental assets and/or services.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Landscape valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and indirect methods
title Landscape valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and indirect methods
spellingShingle Landscape valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and indirect methods
Loures, Luis
Aesthetic analysis
Lower guadiana
Riverscape
Public participation
Economic valuation
title_short Landscape valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and indirect methods
title_full Landscape valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and indirect methods
title_fullStr Landscape valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and indirect methods
title_full_unstemmed Landscape valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and indirect methods
title_sort Landscape valuation of environmental amenities throughout the application of direct and indirect methods
author Loures, Luis
author_facet Loures, Luis
Loures, Ana
Nunes, José
Panagopoulos, Thomas
author_role author
author2 Loures, Ana
Nunes, José
Panagopoulos, Thomas
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Sapientia
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Loures, Luis
Loures, Ana
Nunes, José
Panagopoulos, Thomas
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Aesthetic analysis
Lower guadiana
Riverscape
Public participation
Economic valuation
topic Aesthetic analysis
Lower guadiana
Riverscape
Public participation
Economic valuation
description Landscape design, construction and management should no longer be the result of superficial approaches based exclusively on designers’ and planners’ ideas. This research starts with the assumption that the aesthetic component constitutes an essential attribute for better understanding and evaluating landscapes. This study analyzes the aesthetic quality and economic valuation of the Lower Guadiana river landscape, through the application of direct and indirect landscape evaluation methods. In order to gauge not only experts’ opinion, it is supported by the application of public participation techniques about the opinion and perceptions of the site visitors/users. The present research considered the analysis of six landscape subunits regarding landscape quality, fragility and visual absorption capacity. The obtained results showed that there are significant differences between the perceptions of the general public and experts’ analysis. Touristic Complexes and Golf Courses had high visual quality, while Agricultural and Production Areas had high visual fragility. Moreover, the performed analysis made clear that the combined use of landscape assessment methods is suited to this type of study, since it enables quantifying the value of existence, management and maintenance of a particular environmental assets and/or services.
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