scholarly journals Relating landscape ecological metrics with public survey data on perceived landscape quality and place attachment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flurina M. Wartmann ◽  
C. B. Stride ◽  
F. Kienast ◽  
M. Hunziker
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Public Survey ◽  
People’S Perception ◽  
Landscape Quality ◽  
Landscape Ecological

Abstract Context It is essential for policy-making and planning that we understand landscapes not only in terms of landscape ecological patterns, but also in terms of their contribution to people's quality of life. Objectives In this study our objective is to test relationships between landscape ecology and social science indicators, by investigating how landscape patterns are linked to people’s perception of landscape quality. Methods To assess public views on landscapes we conducted a survey among 858 respondents in Switzerland. We combined this survey data on perceived landscape quality and place attachment with landscape metrics (e.g. diversity, naturalness of land cover, urban sprawl, fragmentation) in a statistical model to test hypotheses about the relationships between the different variables of interest. Results Our results illustrate the contribution of both landscape composition metrics and social science indicators to understanding variation in people’s perception and assessment of landscape. For example, we found the landscape ecology metrics on urban sprawl and fragmentation to be a negative predictor of overall satisfaction with landscape, and that perceived landscape quality positively predicted place attachment and satisfaction with the municipality landscape. Conclusions This study highlights the importance and feasibility of combining landscape ecology metrics and public survey data on how people perceive, value and relate to landscape in an integrated manner. Our approach has the potential for implementation across a variety of settings and can contribute to holistic and integrated landscape assessments that combine ecological and socio-cultural aspects.

A Proposal to Establish: A National Archives for Social Science Survey Data

1963 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 27-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myron J. Lefcowitz ◽  
Robert M. O'Shea
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
National Archives

scholarly journals Landscape Ecology in Mexico: Evolution, Research, Education and Future (Selected Theoretical and Meta-Scientific Aspects)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 82-114
Author(s):  
Vladimír Kremsa ◽  
Florin Žigrai
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mexican Literature ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Research Education ◽  
Didactic Knowledge ◽  
Spatial Level ◽  
Theoretical Application ◽  
Landscape Ecological

Abstract Context:The impulse to write this contribution was the effort of co-authors to bring the European landscape ecologist closer to the development, research & didactic approaches and possible future development of landscape ecology in Mexico from the theoretical, metascientific and applied point of view. Purpose: The purpose of the metascientific approach, in this case meta-landscape ecological approach, is to increase the degree of generalization of existing empirical-methodological, theoretical-application and didactic knowledge and results of landscape-ecological research, so that generally valid landscapeecological regularities and principles can be determined The aim was to acquire new generalizing and holistic qualities and perspectives in the field of landscape ecology in Mexico at this level. Methods: The two-step methodical procedure was elaborated, using metascientifically oriented landscape ecological and ecological Mexican literature, complemented by our studies and personal experience. Results: In this way, new knowledge, representing the added value and meaning of landscape ecologicalevolution, research, education and future development in Mexico was gained. It will serve also to Mexican landscap ecologists. Conclusiones: Mexican landscape ecology, lying at the intersection of European and American landscape ecology, can be described as integrative, idiographic-nomothetic at the spatial level of the landscape in the contact zone of European and American research approaches and principles.

Ecological Regression Estimates: Alchemist’s Gold?

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-86
Author(s):  
Robert R. Dykstra
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Aggregate Data ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Science History ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
Ecological Regression ◽  
Presidential Election Of 1972

Those skeptical of ecological regression in voting behavior studies continue to suggest that problems in applying the technique severely limit its utility. But the cautionary offered in the Winter 1985 number of this journal by William H. Flanigan and Nancy H. Zingale (“Alchemist’s Gold: Inferring Individual Relationships from Aggregate Data,” Social Science History 9: 71-91) goes so far as to suggest that these problems are insurmountable—or virtually insurmountable. As a user, I was prepared to be devastated, but in fact find myself cheered (if a little puzzled).Interested readers will recall that the centerpiece of the authors’ argument is a test involving this question: How did the voters of 1968 behave four years later in the presidential election of 1972? The test consists of comparing voters’ actual behavior, as determined by survey data, with ecological regression estimates of that same behavior. The tabulated results are alleged to be decisive in proving the authors’ point, but instead appear to prove just the opposite of what is intended, as a fresh look at the material reveals.

scholarly journals Study on the Construction of Landscape Ecological Classification System for Large-Scale Coal-Power Base in Semi-Arid Steppe Region

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Wu ◽  
Shaogang Lei ◽  
Zhengfu Bian
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Ecological Classification ◽  
Steppe Region ◽  
Power Base ◽  
Arid Steppe ◽  
Coal Power ◽  
And Function ◽  
Landscape Ecological ◽  
Semi Arid

The ecological background condition of the semi-arid steppe region (SASR) is extremely fragile. It is recognized that the development of coal and electricity power is a kind of strong human interference behavior for regional landscape ecology. Landscape ecological classification (LEC) is the premise of landscape ecology research of the mining area. The current research on the SASR and grassland LEC of coal-power base is relatively less, but still remains uncertainty concerning how to stratify and classify urban mining landscapes into units of ecological significance at spatial scales appropriate for management. This study is based on hierarchy theory, scale theory, landscape process, the patch-corridor-matrix model, the network, the theory of multiple planning integration and the principle of remote sensing. According to the comprehensive principle, principles of the combining of structure and function, principle of the combining human-ominated and natural landscape, principle of emphasis, and principle of combining qualitative analysis with quantitative research of LEC in large-scale coal-power base(LSCPB). On the basis of occurrence method land classification, fully consider the ecological attributes of the land, integration pattern, processes and function theory of the landscape ecology, the LEC system of the LSCPB in the SASR has been constructed by using top-down decomposition classification method. Empirical research of the Victory and Mindong No.1 mining areas of Shenhua Group shows that the classification system constructed in this paper can meet the requirements of LEC and fully reflect the status of landscape ecology of LSCPB in SASR. This study can provide theoretical guidance for the landscape ecology of LSCPB, while also supporting a theoretical reference for the LEC research.

scholarly journals Information Theory as a consistent framework for quantification and classification of landscape patterns

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Nowosad ◽  
Tomasz F. Stepinski
Keyword(s):  
Information Theory ◽  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Random Variable ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
Changing Patterns ◽  
Correlated Information ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractContextQuantitative grouping of similar landscape patterns is an important part of landscape ecology due to the relationship between a pattern and an underlying ecological process. One of the priorities in landscape ecology is a development of the theoretically consistent framework for quantifying, ordering and classifying landscape patterns.ObjectiveTo demonstrate that the Information Theory as applied to a bivariate random variable provides a consistent framework for quantifying, ordering, and classifying landscape patterns.MethodsAfter presenting Information Theory in the context of landscapes, information-theoretical metrics were calculated for an exemplar set of landscapes embodying all feasible configurations of land cover patterns. Sequences and 2D parametrization of patterns in this set were performed to demonstrate the feasibility of Information Theory for the analysis of landscape patterns.ResultsUniversal classification of landscape into pattern configuration types was achieved by transforming landscapes into a 2D space of weakly correlated information-theoretical metrics. An ordering of landscapes by any single metric cannot produce a sequence of continuously changing patterns. In real-life patterns, diversity induces complexity – increasingly diverse patterns are increasingly complex.ConclusionsInformation theory provides a consistent, theory-based framework for the analysis of landscape patterns. Information-theoretical parametrization of landscapes offers a method for their classification.

scholarly journals Influence of Accessibility on Land Use and Landscape Pattern Based on Mapping Knowledge Domains: Review and Implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Yongwei Liu ◽  
Xiaoshu Cao ◽  
Tao Li
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Landscape Ecology ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Significant Research ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Transportation Geography ◽  
Conducting Research

Research on the influence of accessibility on land use and landscape patterns is one of the most important subfields in landscape ecology and transportation geography. In this review article, we use CiteSpace and VOSviewer to analyze relevant information, including the number of published papers, highly cited literature, high-frequency keywords, periodicals, and the leading countries conducting research on this particular field. Based on the mapping knowledge domain theory and summarizing method, this research, using an extensive review of the existing literature to analyze the influence of accessibility on land use and landscape patterns, the following conclusions have been reached: first, most of the relevant studies are conducted by applying theories on landscape ecology rather than on transportation geography, and the measure index of accessibility is relatively simple. Second, while accessibility has played a key role in analyzing the interactions between transportation, land use, and landscape patterns, studies on the long-term effect of transportation on land use and land patterns are extremely important. Also, different road types have been found to impose different effects. Third, research on the functional landscape in inner cities has become a significant research focus, particularly with the progress in big data. And fourth, improvements in data acquisition and processing have greatly benefited the field, specifically with recent advancements in GIS and RS technology. However, studies on landscape patterns with regional perspectives have largely been insufficient, especially those conducted over long time scales.

Travelers’ Psychological Comfort with Local Food Experiences and Place Attachment

2021 ◽  
pp. 109634802110584
Author(s):  
Saerom Wang ◽  
Xinran Lehto ◽  
Liping Cai ◽  
Carl Behnke ◽  
Ksenia Kirillova
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Local Food ◽  
Food Interaction ◽  
Travel Experience ◽  
Food Experience

Travelers’ engagement with local food at a foreign destination could be overwhelming and affect their overall travel experience. This study investigates the role travelers’ psychological comfort with local food plays in influencing the development of their place attachment to a destination. The study utilized survey data sampled from Korean and American travelers who had visited China and found that travelers’ place attachment is positively and significantly influenced by their psychological comfort with food, interaction with service providers, and atmospherics. The findings also reveal that Korean and American travelers differ in the degree to which comfort affects their place attachment. These and other findings of the study bring attention to the comfort factor of travelers’ food experience, thus complementing previous research that tended to emphasize the novelty value of local cuisines.

scholarly journals Organization of rational use of agricultural land on a landscape-ecological basis

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 06021
Author(s):  
Marina Podkovyrova ◽  
Olga Volobueva ◽  
Dmitriy Kucherov ◽  
Larisa Gilyova
Keyword(s):  
Specific Gravity ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Landscape Patterns ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Erosion Level ◽  
Rational Organization ◽  
Landscape Ecological

The aim of the study is to develop a project for the rational organization of the use of agricultural land for land use on the basis of a comprehensive integrated assessment and landscape-ecological analysis, involving their landscape-ecological optimization, conservation of landscape diversity. This project will establish the main criteria for the optimization of agricultural lands as natural-economic systems: land and resource security; level of forest cover; agricultural load on landscapes (erosion level, specific gravity of irrigated and drained lands, livestock load per 100 ha of fodder land); the degree of agrogenic load on agrolandscapes (specific gravity of steam, indicators of plowing and agricultural development); landscape-ecological conditions (landscape situation, drainage of landscapes, relief, soil; water and radiation balances; manifestation of adverse physical and geographical processes); spatial and technological conditions (a variety of landscape patterns of arable land and other lands, their configuration and size); the degree of environmental tension (the degree of development of natural physical and geographical processes and anthropogenic ones: salinization, waterlogging, flooding, pollution of soils, snow, air and water basins, etc.); the amount of agricultural losses; environmental, social and economic efficiency of the implementation of design developments. The methods used are: abstract-logical, integrated landscape and environmental assessment, cartographic, modeling methods.

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