RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Interethnic Preferences for Landscape Change
JF Landscape Journal
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 215
OP 231
DO 10.3368/lj.29.2.215
VO 29
IS 2
A1 Lewis, John L.
YR 2010
UL http://lj.uwpress.org/content/29/2/215.abstract
AB Interethnic and cross-cultural preferences for and perceptions of landscape change have been recurrent subjects of interest in environmental psychology, environmental sociology, and landscape architecture research. Cross-cultural studies of Asian, European, and Euro-American perceptions of landscape condition are fairly common, but few if any studies have compared aboriginal and nonaboriginal perceptions of a range of controlled landscape conditions. A sample of aboriginal and non-aboriginal residents of British Columbia’s upper Skeena Valley indicates considerable interethnic consistency in preference evaluations of a series of photo-realistic landscape change scenarios. Reflection on the cultural and motivational determinants of landscape preference indicates a need for more explicit operational definitions of the terms culture and community of interest in landscape research.