Characteristics of people's awareness of pasture viewed from the perspective of rural landscape preservation
2006
Yamamoto, S.(University of Hyogo, Himeji (Japan)) | Hasegawa, N. | Fujihara, M. | Iwasaki, Y.
The rapidly aging society in recent years has been accelerating the shortage of workforce in primary industries. Consequently, agricultural landscapes, which used to be maintained by those industries, have also been undergoing a remarkable change. Agricultural landscapes, however, are one of the principal elements featuring the locality, and therefore should be taken as indispensable nowadays when local characteristics are made much of. Among agricultural landscapes, this study focused on grasslands, extracting some visual landscape components that people can recognize, aimed at providing fundamental materials in discussing effective measures for preserving local landscapes. The study showed that people have been aware of changes in grassland state due to seasonal transition or farming, viewing the presence of animals such as cattle as important in pasture landscapes. And the person who does not know the stock raising industry is higher than the person who knows at the evaluation of rural landscape scenery for example pasture. The possibility to improve the evaluation of them was suggested; how to showing these elements in rural landscapes; who sees the scenery?
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