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Natural or Human Landscape Beauty? Quantifying Aesthetic Experience at Longji Terraces Through Eye-Tracking [PDF]
Journal of Eye Movement ResearchThis study investigated tourists’ visual perception, aesthetic experience, and behavioral intentions across four types of landscapes. A total of 353 questionnaires were distributed on-site, and the SOR model was used to examine the visual stimuli and ...
Ting Zhang +4 more
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Terraced landscapes: an increasingly prominent cultural landscape type
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 Over the past decades, attractive terraced landscapes composed of cultivated terraces have been increasingly dealt with in studies in geography, landscape architecture, ethnology, rural sociology, agronomy, pedology, and other spatial disciplines. Around
Drago Kladnik +2 more
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Land, 2021 Terraced tourism sustainability depends on maintenance for terraced landscape. The effective measures for protecting terraces rest on the cooperation among multi-stakeholders.
Guannan Zhu, Xiande Li, Yongxun Zhang
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Land, 2023 Terraced landscapes are anthropic landscapes that need continuous management. Future planning policies need to develop bottom-up approaches in order to be able to take into consideration the perspectives of decision makers (DMs) and civil society ...
Enrico Pomatto +4 more
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Agriculture, 2022 Terraces are the major vehicle for agricultural activities in mountainous areas and are an important component of the agro-cultural heritage landscape. This work explores tourists’ perceived attitudes toward, and characteristics of terraced agro-cultural
Xiaopiao Yang +4 more
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Classifying the Mediterranean terraced landscape: the case of Adriatic Croatia
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 This article presents a Croatian Adriatic terraced landscape classification, highlighting its natural and cultural background and proposing a classification framework for further research.
Goran Andlar +2 more
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Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 Terraced landscapes represent one of the most widespread human-induced/man-made transformations of hilly-mountainous environments. Slope terracing produces peculiar morphologies along with unusual soil textures and stratigraphic features, which in turn ...
Matteo Fiorucci +12 more
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The terraced landscape in the Brkini hills
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2015 This article presents cultivated terraces as social and economic landscape elements that are closely connected with natural conditions. The theoretical part, which presents some of the professional activities connected with terraced landscapes and ...
Lučka Ažman Momirski, Drago Kladnik
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Cultivated terraces in Slovenian landscapes
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 Cultivated terraces distinctively mark the landscape and are a result of human adaptation to steep areas. Terraces were studied with regard to their morphometric qualities, ownership structure, and land use at eight pilot sites in various landscape types
Mateja Šmid Hribar +6 more
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Terraced landscapes in Slovakia
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 This study investigates the distribution of terraced landscapes in Slovakia and analyzes their structural characteristics and land use. We found that traditional farming and terrace building as a part of agricultural intensification resulted in two types
Jana Špulerová +4 more
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