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Mapping landscape values and development preferences: a method for tourism and residential development planning
Author(s) -
Brown Gregory
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international journal of tourism research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.155
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1522-1970
pISSN - 1099-2340
DOI - 10.1002/jtr.562
Subject(s) - recreation , tourism , wilderness , geography , regional science , landscape assessment , wilderness area , environmental resource management , environmental planning , landscape design , environmental science , ecology , archaeology , biology
This paper presents a method for measuring and analysing tourism and residential development options using survey research techniques that spatially locate public‐perceived landscape values and development preferences. Using survey data from Kangaroo Island, South Australia, landscape values and preferences for tourism development are analysed to determine the relative strength of landscape values as predictors of place‐specific development preferences. Results indicate that tourism development preferences are most closely associated with recreation, economic and scenic landscape values whereas residential development preferences are most closely associated with recreation, economic and learning values. Preferences for ‘no development’ are most closely associated with wilderness, therapeutic and intrinsic landscape values. A simple development index is generated from the spatial data that ranges from positive (acceptable development) to negative (no development) values. The potential benefits of the method for land‐use planning processes are discussed. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley &Sons, Ltd.