Satoshi Yamamoto

Several research methods are available for landscape assessment and conservation in enclosed landscapes, with which we interact constantly in our daily lives.The extraction of landscape elements in enclosed landscapes, however, is considered to be more difficult than in panoramic landscapes. This study examined several research methods using various materials,question survey and field survey. These databases were constructed by using geographic information system (GIS) and global positioning system (GPS). The landscape elements database measured straight line distances between roads and landscape elements, and property line of administration field and landscape elements. The land use has been determined from the position of the landscape elements. According to results, about 70% of the land use was consisted of landscape elements from the road within 25m. When the landscape elements were extracted, this was able to be shown as one technique.The result suggests when the landscape elements were extracted, GIS becomes one technique to simplify the methods.

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?

The purpose of this study aimed to clarify the peculiarity to which they were passed for the rice field part and the terraced paddy field scenery among the rural area scenery. The aspect of the research is a visual recognition characteristic of the spectacle. Using the eye movement analysis elucidates the evaluation structure of man who evaluates the terraced paddy field scenery. And aimed to propose the new management technique turned to the maintenance of the terraced paddy field spectacle. As a result, the evaluation structure of the spectacle is different depending on the distance. The entire scenery becomes important in the distant view. The material such as flowers becomes important in the near view. It seems that the difference of the material do not influence the evaluation in the distant view.

This study aims to clarify the existing effects of green space relating to consolidation of residential environment by conducting questionnaires on the residents around the green space. The results of this study are summarized as follows ; 1) The evaluation to the existing effects of green space is the highest at the naturally supplied green areas, and amenity effects follow next. The range of these two effects is wide. 2) The evaluation to the micrometeorological control effects and the noise reduction effect is lower than the afore-mentioned two effects, and the range of the effect is narrow. 3) The more there are visible green space and frequency of human green contact, the higher the evaluation to the existing effects of green space becomes.