Identifying cues for monitoring stewardship in Swedish pasture landscapes

Abstract

Perceived stewardship is an important factor driving people's landscape preferences, and there is a need for landscape planning and monitoring tools to address this characteristic in landscape management. The European Landscape Convention emphasizes landscapes as perceived by people, so the political pressure to develop indicators suitable for monitoring landscape qualities related to perception has increased. This paper presents the results from a study that uses eye-tracking to explore what it is in the agricultural landscape that people look at when asked to evaluate stewardship. In the study, photographs of Swedish agricultural landscapes were shown to 19 respondents while their eye movements were recorded, and after each picture they were asked to evaluate the landscape in terms of stewardship using a 7-point Likert scale. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords

RURAL TOURISM; AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES; LAND-COVER; PREFERENCES; INDICATORS; ATTRIBUTES; PERCEPTION; CHARACTER; QUALITY; CONTEXT

Published in

Land Use Policy
2016, volume: 53, pages: 20-26

SLU Authors

• Ode Sang, Åsa

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Pihel, Johan

  • Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Hägerhäll, Caroline

  • Department of People and Society, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Landscape Architecture
Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2015.09.020

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/78002