TY - CHAP
T1 - Landscape perception and environmental psychology
AU - Thompson, Catharine Ward
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 Selection and editorial matter: Peter Howard, Ian Thompson and Emma Waterton; individual chapters: the contributors.
PY - 2012/12/13
Y1 - 2012/12/13
N2 - This chapter sets a context for understanding how we engage with the world around us, particularly the outdoor and natural elements of the environment. It describes studies and research approaches that explore how we experience the landscape, on a number of levels, and the relevance of this to our attitudes, our behaviour, and indeed our wellbeing. A key element relates to evidence on the process of landscape perception – how we make sense of the environment and what it offers. It discusses theories and models which attempt to explain the bases of aesthetic response, preference and behaviour. It gives an overview of methods that have been effective in empirical research to help understand how people engage with the landscape in everyday life and techniques, methodologies or principles that might fruitfully be pursued in future to address gaps in our understanding. This is necessarily a brief overview and many themes are the subject of a considerable body of research which can only be touched upon here.
AB - This chapter sets a context for understanding how we engage with the world around us, particularly the outdoor and natural elements of the environment. It describes studies and research approaches that explore how we experience the landscape, on a number of levels, and the relevance of this to our attitudes, our behaviour, and indeed our wellbeing. A key element relates to evidence on the process of landscape perception – how we make sense of the environment and what it offers. It discusses theories and models which attempt to explain the bases of aesthetic response, preference and behaviour. It gives an overview of methods that have been effective in empirical research to help understand how people engage with the landscape in everyday life and techniques, methodologies or principles that might fruitfully be pursued in future to address gaps in our understanding. This is necessarily a brief overview and many themes are the subject of a considerable body of research which can only be touched upon here.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85031014308&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780203096925-9
DO - 10.4324/9780203096925-9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85031014308
SN - 9780415684606
SP - 25
EP - 42
BT - The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
PB - Taylor & Francis
ER -