The Interplay of Objectivity and Subjectivity in Landscape Character Assessment: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches and Challenges

Landscape character assessment (LCA) methods have been used in the past few decades to analyze, classify, and map landscape types, using objective subjective approaches, with aid of both quantitative qualitative data. This paper addresses critically evaluates compromises ways which contemporary LCA methodologies employ (or profess they employ) versus data analytical tools, their conceptualization implementation. It begins an extensive literature review objective/subjective quantitative/qualitative variables interweave currently practiced or proposed versions LCA. With meta-analysis, traces discusses recent evolution, methods, concessions, risks such endeavors, develops integrative conceptual model for critical assessment, analysis, negotiation interplay between objective-subjective quantitative-qualitative constituent parts existing methodologies. concludes by pointing pitfalls prospects, broader attempt towards a more concerted, approach development practice, appropriate its challenges adaptable time-space-culture-discipline particularities means