The updated edition of the essential guide to environmental psychology Thoroughly revised
and updated, the second edition, Environmental Psychology: An Introduction offers an …

Oak cover types comprise half of the forestlands in the eastern United States. There is a
great desire to sustain these highly valued forests. Unfortunately, reports of the successional …

Cultural ecosystem services (ES) are consistently recognized but not yet adequately defined
or integrated within the ES framework. A substantial body of models, methods, and data …

Humans have spread an enormous net over the land. As the largest human artifact on earth,
this vast, nearly five million mile (8 million km) road network used by a quarter billion …

It is generally agreed that aesthetic objects do not constitute a set of special objects, but
rather are determined by our attitudes and experiences. A consequence of this view is that …

The history of landscape quality assessment has featured a contest between expert and
perception-based approaches, paralleling a long-standing debate in the philosophy of …

This collaborative essay grows out of a debate about the relationship between aesthetics
and ecology and the possibility of an “ecological aesthetic” that affects landscape planning …

A transparent and theory-based scheme for analysing visual character is presented. Based
on a literature review, nine key visual concepts are identified: stewardship, coherence …

In this paper, we summarize findings from a series of interrelated studies that examine an
urban greenway, the 150 mile Chicago River corridor in Chicago, USA, from multiple …

The concept of naturalness is one of the more studied concepts in landscape preference
research and describes how close a landscape is to a perceived natural state. In this study …