Use of the direct method for evaluation and valuation of the landscape visual quality

Authors

  • Talía da Costa UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO ITAJAÍ - UNIVALI
  • Aline Dal Conti Lampert UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO ITAJAÍ - UNIVALI

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14210/bjast.v21n2.12475

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The concept of landscape is used by the most diverse areas such as geography, architecture, plastic arts, psychology and the environmental area where it receives an important role in the management of environmental resources. The direct method evaluates the visual quality of the landscape from the contemplation of its totality, through the visualization at the site or through the use of substitutes giving rise to different levels of subjectivity during the process. The scale used to evaluate the landscape visual quality comprised integer values equal to one, two, three, four and five, corresponding to very low, low, good, high and very high visual quality classes, respectively. Of the 21 photos evaluated, only two photographs received the extreme ratings.

Keywords: landscape, direct method, valuation

Author Biographies

Talía da Costa, UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO ITAJAÍ - UNIVALI

Doutoranda em Ciência e Tecnologia Ambiental

Laboratório de Conservação e Gestão Costeira

 

Aline Dal Conti Lampert, UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO ITAJAÍ - UNIVALI

Doutoranda em Ciência e Tecnologia Ambiental

Laboratório de Conservação e Gestão Costeira 

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Published

2018-08-07

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 2 (2017): Ecologia e Qualidade Visual da Paisagem de Ambientes Aquáticos e Costeiros

Section

Research Articles

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