Landscape Perception

"Landscape Perception" provides a convenient, first hand account of the studies that environmental psychologists have conducted to explore the experience of landscapes. This book encapsulates the actual studies that form the basis of this rapidly growing area of environmental psychology, thus providing experienced researchers and new students with direct examples of the actual studies that have been conducted. For psychologists schooled in laboratory research, the natural landscape may seem to be the last frontier yet to be conquered, even though many other disciplines have been at home in this region for a number of years. Geographers, landscape architects, biological ecologists, and others should find the present volume a helpful introduction to the opening stages of psychological forays into areas they may possibly consider their own inviolable domain. The initial papers in a new area of study are often crucial to the development of that field. By assembling the original papers in one volume, it is possible to gain a detailed awareness of the contributions these studies are making to our understanding of the human significance of nature.