Preferences for Landscapes: A Matter of Cultural Determinants or Innate Reflexes that Point to Our Evolutionary Background?

Landscape Research

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-49

  Adevi, Anna A ^a   Grahn, Patrik ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

attachment; ecological self; evolution; landscape; Preference

Indexed keywords

CHILD; GEOGRAPHICAL THOUGHT; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84858031212     PISSN: 01426397     EISSN: 14699710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2011.576884     Document Type: Article

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