Young Adults’ Perception of Forests Using Landscape-Image-Sketching Technique: A Case Study of Changsha, Central China

Fen Luo (), Chen Wang, Haiqian Lei and Zhijun Xiao
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Fen Luo: College of Tourism, Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha 410004, China
Chen Wang: College of Tourism, Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha 410004, China
Haiqian Lei: College of Tourism, Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha 410004, China
Zhijun Xiao: College of Tourism, Central South University of Forestry & Technology, Changsha 410004, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: The forest-landscape image is the bridge for communication between human beings and the forest. The aim of this paper is to construct the landscape-image conceptual model from the personal perception of the forest, with what people are looking at and how they are viewing themselves as a part of the forest. This research constructed a forest-landscape image by young adults by utilizing the landscape-image-sketching technique and selecting 140 young adults who had lived in Changsha, Central China for ten years, using convenience sampling, during April and May 2018. The results demonstrated that the forest was considered as the people’s life world, as rural scenery around the respondents’ homes, instead of the perception of the objective forest, an important habitat for animals and a limited resource supplier for human living. In fact, the natural values of the forest, such as the ecological and aesthetic values, received more attention than the social ones of the forest, including the life, production, and cultural values. Finally, it is important to raise the public’s awareness of the objective entity of the forest and to guide the variety of experiences for the respondents in the forest.

Keywords: forest perception; landscape image; conceptual model; Central China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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