Social Perception of Trees in the Landscape: The Connection Between Attitudes and Visual Preferences

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0004" target="_blank" >https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0004</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2023-0004" target="_blank" >10.2478/jlecol-2023-0004</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Social Perception of Trees in the Landscape: The Connection Between Attitudes and Visual Preferences

Original language description

The study presented in this paper uses a representative sample of the Czech population to analyse the relationships between attitudes to trees and preferences for landscapes with trees. We ask whether a positive assessment of the environmental benefits of trees in general and old and dead trees in particular leads to preferences for close-to-nature forms of the tree landscape. The results show that tree landscape preferences are primarily affected by attitudes attached to trees, rather than by sociodemographic factors. People who appreciate the environmental benefits of trees are more likely to prefer transparent and organized landscapes with trees, whereas the more specific environmental attitude appreciating old or dead trees is reflected in higher preferences for wilderness-like landscapes. The results of our research suggest that the perceived environmental benefits of trees are anthropocentric in nature, in a way utilitarian, trees serve people and their environment, and not nature as such.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Landscape Ecology

ISSN

1805-4196

e-ISSN

1805-4196

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

PL - POLAND

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

66-84

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85162225825