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 conceptualizati...

The study of subjective, first-person experience is a topic with both philosophical and practical implications. In this article, I discuss the value of collecting a critical mass of prose or verbal descriptions of introspectively determined, subjective effects of pharmacological agents. I suggest that datasets of introspective reports fit in the modern research landscape at the intersection of ...

The landscape concept, such as it is conceived today, can not be reduced to the study of only the physical elements of the countryside and to traces of human activity. In addition to this is a subjective element represented by the perspective that the observer overlooks the environment which surrounds him. The landscape is consequently at the same time a physical object and the view observed by...

extended abstract 1. introduction city is a living creature formed through the interaction of different forces in unique substantiality. one of the main aspects of each city is its landscape; urban landscape is the experience of people as the members of society. landscape is an objective and subjective phenomenon that is the part of peoples’ nature in a city. in fact, the process of landscape p...

As an important part of rural space, the public space landscape has a positive influence on tourists and local residents, also guiding significance for sustainable development areas. This study expands previous research taking “user-oriented” preference as entry point, Beijing object, using eye-tracking technology to objectively reflect degree users’ landscape, making quantitative analysis thro...

The landscape is viewed as the visible manifestation of the territory, perceived and evaluated by local authorities. The landscape does not provide information only on himself but also more broadly reflects the characteristics and territorial dynamics, function for which it appears to have a number of operational qualities, especially in the case of-spaces misinformed statistically, and of rapi...

Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?* In a new survey we ask respondents, after a standard Subjective Well‐Being (SWB) question, if they can think of changes in their lives that would improve their SWB score. If the SWB score is just one argument among others in the respondents’ goals in life, they should easily find ways to improve it, at the expense of other dimensions they...