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Towards Protection of Scenic Resources

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Philip Dearden
Philip Dearden
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Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1W5, Canada.
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This essay has sought to draw together some of the reasons behind the recent upsurge in interest in the systematic evaluation of scenic beauty. It has covered a wide range of disciplines, because of the multi-faceted nature of feelings about landscape. These feelings have been synthesized into four themes representing landscape as a non-renewable resource, as a recreational resource, as a spiritual resource, and finally as a historical resource. Undoubtedly many other equally valid reasons exist as to why the visual resource of the landscape should be recognized as an important consideration in land-use planning decisions.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , Summer 1980 , pp. 153 - 158
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1980

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