Placing land cover pattern preferences on the map: Bridging methodological approaches of landscape preference surveys and spatial pattern analysis

摘要

This paper presents an innovative methodological framework – Landscape Preferences Spatial Framework(LPSF) – which is able to translate landscape preferences, as expressed by various users, concerningpossible land cover pattern compositions into land cover pattern preference maps. The innovative potentialof the contribution lies in the exploration of a comprehensive methodical framework that facilitatesthe spatial representations of landscape demands by relevant user groups thus bridging the gap betweenlandscape preference research and landscape planning. The LPSF developed here goes beyond the stateof the art in translating local scale preference by people into regional scale planning settings. Throughoutthe paper the development and testing of the LPSF is described and explained. Although the paper focuseson the conceptual framework of the method, it also shows the results of its application in a case study.