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Landscape Evaluation and Public Preferences: Is there Room for Optimisation?

Th e need for information on landscape value preferences (that are disclosed by public survey) in conservation activities within spatial planning have been recognised long ago. Th e paper focuses in general on that topic, specifi cally highlighting the importance of diverse conservation criteria that promote the idea of eff ective implementation of public participation in the earliest stage of the planning process - the analytical phase of landscape evaluation. Th e environmental qualities that the landscape planner should take into account include unpolluted landscape as human habitat, productivity of natural resources and the naturalness of ecosystem. Th e public survey and support tools (statistical analysis and vulnerability modelling) were used as methods for revealing landscape value preferences of three social groups: local inhabitants, experts (people directly involved in a land use planning process) and potential users of a space. Th e results have shown that conservation goals or desired future state of a landscape considerably diff ers between and within respondent groups. Th is also makes it possible to look for an acceptable compromise between the three distinctive conservational requests, thus allowing optimisation of a land use decision.

landscape; values; landscape planning; protection; public participation

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