Proceedings of our national landscape: a conference on applied techniques for analysis and management of the visual resource [Incline Village, Nev., April 23-25, 1979]
Authors: | Gary H. Elsner, Richard C. Smardon, technical coordinators |
Year: | 1979 |
Type: | General Technical Report |
Station: | Pacific Southwest Research Station |
Source: | Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-35. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Exp. Stn., Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture: 752 p |
Abstract
These 104 papers were presented at "Our National Landscape: A Conference on Applied Techniques for Analysis and Management of the Visual Resource," Incline Village, Nevada, April 23-25, 1979. Included in this proceedings are state-of-the-art papers on landscape planning. Emphasis is upon planning the visual aspects of the large and wildland areas of the United States. Methodologies presented are useful in many areas of the world. The major thrusts of these papers are to a) describe the current and future challenges to the visual resource; b) describe available technology for solving landscape planning problems; and c) illustrate appropriate combinations of technology and problems. Specifically, papers address these themes: landscape challenges (presented as a series of "simulated visual field trips"); descriptive, quantitative, and psychometric methodologies available to solve land-scape problems; available legal and policy tools; combinations of technology for solving problems; landscape management systems; new dimensions of landscape planning; and priorities for research.Titles contained within Proceedings of our national landscape: a conference on applied techniques for analysis and management of the visual resource [Incline Village, Nev., April 23-25, 1979]
- Surface mining
- Visual impacts in the urban-wildland interface
- Simulated field trip on ski area development
- Timber management simulated field trip
- Highway development
- The countryside visual resource
- Linear utility corridors—a simulated visual field trip
- Range management visual impacts
- A simulated field trip: "The visual aspects of power plant sitings"
- Dams and water developments
- The off-road recreation vehicle—visual impacts
- Descriptive approaches to landscape analysis
- Computers and the landscape
- Setting technical standards for visual assessment procedures
- Seeing desert as wilderness and as landscape—an exercise in visual thinking approaches
- Conducting a wildland visual resources inventory
- Visual unit analysis: a descriptive approach to landscape assessment
- Enviroplan—a summary methodology for comprehensive environmental planning and design
- The Mt. Mitchell scenery assessment
- Landscape maps as an aid to management of scenic mountain areas
- Policy capturing as a method of quantifying the determinants of landscape preference
- A computerized system for portrayal of landscape alterations
- Analysis of landscape character for visual resource management
- Visual Absorption Capability
- A proposed biophysical approach to Visual absorption capability (VAC)
- The visual information system
- Visual management support system
- A systematic approach for locating optimum sites
- The use of VIEWIT and perspective plot to assist in determining the landscape's visual absorption capability
- Visual resources and the public: an empirical approach
- Measuring familiarity for natural environments through visual images
- The Q-Sort method: use in landscape assessment research and landscape planning
- Complexity and valued landscapes
- Perception and landscape: conceptions and misconceptions
- The social value of English landscapes
- Dimensions of landscape preferences from pairwise comparisons
- Numerical modeling of eastern connecticut's visual resources
- The derivation of scenic utility functions and surfaces and their role in landscape management
- Visual perception of landscape: sex and personality differences
- Appraising the reliability of visual impact assessment methods
- Evaluation and recommendations concerning the visual resource inventory and evaluation systems used within the forest service and the bureau of land management
- The generation of criteria for selecting analytical tools for landscape management
- Texas lignite and the visual resource: an objective approach to visual resource evaluation and management
- Computer-aided visual assessment in mine planning and design
- Opportunities for visual resource management in the Southern Appalachian Coal Basin
- Visual Analysis as a design and decision-making tool in the development of a quarry
- A case study: Death Valley National Monument California-Nevada
- Measuring the impact of urbanization on scenic quality: land use change in the northeast
- Assessing the visual resource and visual development suitability values in metropolitanizing landscapes
- A comprehensive approach to visual resource management for highway agencies
- Highway attitudes and levels of roadside maintenance
- A method for improved visual landscape compatibility of mobile home park
- Does the public notice visual resource problems on the federal estate?
- Landscape assessment for tourism
- Assessment of visual resources desirable for tourism and recreational uses along the site of Lake Choon-Chon in Korea
- Projecting the visual carrying capacity of recreation areas
- Visual resource inventory and Imnaha Valley study: Hells Canyon National Recreation Area
- The use of computer graphics in the visual analysis of the proposed Sunshine Ski Area expansion
- Managing for naturalness in wildland and agricultural landscapes
- Visual resources of the New Jersey Pine Barrens: integrating visual resources into the planning process
- Toward a state landscape policy: incremental planning and management in Vermont
- Northwest Montana/North Idaho transmission corridor study: a computer-assisted corridor location and impact evaluation assessment
- Aesthetic impact of a proposed power plant on an historic wilderness landscape
- Simulation of the visual effects of power plant plumes
- Evolution of a visual impact model to evaluate nuclear plant siting and design option
- Visual sensitivity of river recreation to power plants
- Classification of the visual landscape for transmission planning
- Scenic beauty estimation model: predicting perceived beauty of forest landscapes
- The semantic differential in landscape research
- Identification of scenically preferred forest landscapes
- Visual management system and timber management application
- The role of the landscape architect in applied forest landscape management: a case study on process
- A system to program projects to meet visual quality objectives
- Project visual analysis for the Allegheny National Forest
- Landscape preference assessment of Louisiana river landscapes: a methodological study
- Management of the Lower St. Croix riverway: the application of cognitive visual mapping and social and resource assessment methods
- A visual resource management study of alternative dams, reservoirs and highway and transmission line corridors near Copper Creek, Washington
- Predicting the visual quality impacts of development: a simulation of alternative policies for implementing the Massachusetts Scenic and Recreational Rivers Act
- Combining computer and manual overlays—Willamette River Greenway Study
- VIEWIT uses on the wild and scenic upper Missouri River
- Managing the visual effects of outer continental shelf and other petroleum-related coastal development
- Visual simulation of offshore liquefied natural gas (lng) terminals in a decision-making context
- Visual impact assessment in British oil and gas developments
- A technique for the assessment of the visual impact of nearshore confined dredged materials and other built islands
- The visual management system of the Forest Service, USDA
- The bureau of land management and visual resource management—an overview
- Soil conservation service landscape resource management
- Litigation and landscape esthetics
- The interface of legal and esthetic considerations
- Landscape values in public decisions
- Visual quality testimony in an adversary setting
- Wildlands management for wildlife viewing
- Potential future impacts on visual air quality for Class I areas
- Visual resource management of the sea
- Designing future landscapes from principles of form and function
- People, planners and policy: is there an interface?
- Human habitat at the fringe of the forest: the character of the place
- Research needs for our national landscapes
- The energy crisis and the American landscape