"Scenophobia", geography and the aesthetic politics of landscape

Geografiska Annaler, Series B: Human Geography

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 203-217

  Benediktsson, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

Author keywords

Iceland; K rahnj kar power project; Landscape aesthetics; Landscape politics; Scenic values; Social nature

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS; ESTHETICS; LANDSCAPE; NATURALNESS;

ARCTIC; ICELAND;

EID: 34547897990     PISSN: 04353684     EISSN: 14680467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0467.2007.00249.x     Document Type: Article

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