TY - JOUR T1 - Interethnic Preferences for Landscape Change JF - Landscape Journal SP - 215 LP - 231 DO - 10.3368/lj.29.2.215 VL - 29 IS - 2 AU - John L. Lewis Y1 - 2010/09/21 UR - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/29/2/215.abstract N2 - 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. ER -