Suitability of Visual Resource Assessment Procedure in Determining Public Perception of Malaysian Landscape Quality

The issue on who is responsible to determine whether visual landscape quality is good or bad, attractive or unattractive, and so forth is still in much debate. This research was conducted to investigate the preference between expert personnel and public in visual landscape quality. This is due to...

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Main Author:	Saidon, Mohd Nazri
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English English
Published:	2007
Subjects:	Landscape - Malaysia - Environmental aspects - Case studies
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/6274/1/FPAS_2007_1.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.62742023-10-19T07:32:25Z Suitability of Visual Resource Assessment Procedure in Determining Public Perception of Malaysian Landscape Quality 2007 Saidon, Mohd Nazri The issue on who is responsible to determine whether visual landscape quality is good or bad, attractive or unattractive, and so forth is still in much debate. This research was conducted to investigate the preference between expert personnel and public in visual landscape quality. This is due to the problem whether either method being use by expert can represent public preferences. The hypothesis of this study is there is no significant difference in visuaI landscape quality preferences between the expert and public to the study area. The goal was to determine if the expert method (VRAP) is suitable in representing the public preferences for visual quality of Malaysian landscape. There are two groups of respondents, which are expert and public groups. The expert consists of ten ( ~ 1 0 r)e spondents conducted the field assessment by following strictly the expert method (VlUW) while the public respondents were shown thirty-six tests slide photographs (based on public method). These photographs were systematically taken at the site and the respondents were asked to rate their preferences for each photos. The scale of visual quality preference was given range fiom extremely attractive, attractive, little attractive, unattractive to extremely unattractive. The individual score (percentage ranking) of public assessment was then compared to the median (percentage ranking) of expert groups evaluation using non-parametric statistical analysis. At the same time, several statistical tests were also conducted to determine the pattern of expert and public preferences of visual quality assessment. Results indicated that there are significant difference of visual preference (p-value =O. 004) between the expert and public at the study site. This finding suggests that experts and public have difference perception of visual quality preference of Malaysian landscape. Therefore, the expert method (VRAP) is not able to represent public preferences in this study. Landscape - Malaysia - Environmental aspects - Case studies 2007 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/6274/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/6274/1/FPAS_2007_1.pdf text en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Landscape - Malaysia - Environmental aspects - Case studies Faculty Environmental Studies Abdullah, Ramdzani English
institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
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language	English English
advisor	Abdullah, Ramdzani
topic	Landscape - Malaysia - Environmental aspects - Case studies
spellingShingle	Landscape - Malaysia - Environmental aspects - Case studies Saidon, Mohd Nazri Suitability of Visual Resource Assessment Procedure in Determining Public Perception of Malaysian Landscape Quality
description	The issue on who is responsible to determine whether visual landscape quality is good or bad, attractive or unattractive, and so forth is still in much debate. This research was conducted to investigate the preference between expert personnel and public in visual landscape quality. This is due to the problem whether either method being use by expert can represent public preferences. The hypothesis of this study is there is no significant difference in visuaI landscape quality preferences between the expert and public to the study area. The goal was to determine if the expert method (VRAP) is suitable in representing the public preferences for visual quality of Malaysian landscape. There are two groups of respondents, which are expert and public groups. The expert consists of ten ( ~ 1 0 r)e spondents conducted the field assessment by following strictly the expert method (VlUW) while the public respondents were shown thirty-six tests slide photographs (based on public method). These photographs were systematically taken at the site and the respondents were asked to rate their preferences for each photos. The scale of visual quality preference was given range fiom extremely attractive, attractive, little attractive, unattractive to extremely unattractive. The individual score (percentage ranking) of public assessment was then compared to the median (percentage ranking) of expert groups evaluation using non-parametric statistical analysis. At the same time, several statistical tests were also conducted to determine the pattern of expert and public preferences of visual quality assessment. Results indicated that there are significant difference of visual preference (p-value =O. 004) between the expert and public at the study site. This finding suggests that experts and public have difference perception of visual quality preference of Malaysian landscape. Therefore, the expert method (VRAP) is not able to represent public preferences in this study.
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author	Saidon, Mohd Nazri
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title	Suitability of Visual Resource Assessment Procedure in Determining Public Perception of Malaysian Landscape Quality
title_short	Suitability of Visual Resource Assessment Procedure in Determining Public Perception of Malaysian Landscape Quality
title_full	Suitability of Visual Resource Assessment Procedure in Determining Public Perception of Malaysian Landscape Quality
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