<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Barroso, Filipe Lucas</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pinto-Correia, Teresa</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ramos, Isabel L.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Surová, Diana</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Menezes, Helena</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dealing with landscape fuzziness in user preference studies: Photo-based questionnaires in the Mediterranean context</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Landscape and Urban Planning</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Landscape fuzziness</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">landscape preferences</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean landscapes</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photo manipulation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Photo-based questionnaires</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Visualization tools</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2012///</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169204611003276</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">104</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">329 - 342</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean landscapes reveal extremely adequate conditions for the development of other functions besides production (nature conservation, recreation, life quality, local identity). These functions support the provision of public goods and services increasingly recognized by society. With this goal, the production of knowledge that may support decision is highly needed. In Mediterranean extensively used areas, the analysis of landscape features and related public preferences is complex, as the landscape pattern is highly fuzzy and land cover classes are often mixed. Resulting from multiple research developments, this paper demonstrates how photo-based surveys can be a suitable tool for assessing landscape preferences by speciﬁc public groups. Landscape functions addressed are closely linked to land cover patterns, as resulting from land cover systems. Thus using photographs in landscape questionnaires is useful in focusing the discussion on speciﬁc aspects, related with the variations in land cover and in their combinations with other speciﬁc landscape features. But the photos shown need to be clear and easily perceivable by the respondents. In order to cope with the underlying fuzziness of these landscapes, manipulation of images has been developed as the best solution so that the variations shown to respondents are adequately controlled in the study and landscape features are easily recognized by the respondents. The methodological approach as well as the results of applied approaches, of two studies on the users preferences, applied to a case-study area in Alentejo region, Portugal, are presented. The issues concerned with photo manipulation are a particular focus of discussion.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3-4</style></issue><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The following values have no corresponding Zotero field:&lt;br/&gt;publisher: Elsevier B.V.</style></notes></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>7</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Naveh, Z</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">RUNDEL, P</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MONTENEGRO, G</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">JAKSIC, F M</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">FROM BIODIVERSITY TO ECODIVERSITY – HOLISTIC CONSERVATION OF THE BIOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF MEDITERRANEAN LANDSCAPES .</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LANDSCAPE DISTURBANCE AND BIODIVERSITY IN MEDITERRANEAN – TYPE ECOSYSTEMS. ECOLOGICAL STUDIES VOL. 136</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">biological diversity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cultural diversity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ecodiversity</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">human activities (voyant)</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">land uses</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mediterranean landscapes</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1998</style></year></dates><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Springer</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Berlin</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">136</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">159-185</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Human disturbance in mediterranean-type ecosystems continues to be a subject of serious concern, and nowhere is such disturbance and degradation of natural ecological processes and biodiversity more evident than in the Mediterranean Basin itself. In this chapter I will point out currently prevailing trends in Mediterranean landscapes in the context of our global environmental crisis. This will lead to a discussion of the close interrelations between biological diversity, ecological heterogeneity, and cultural diver- sity, or in one word, total landscape ecodiversity in the Mediterranean Basin, and to recent advances in landscape ecology in the evaluation of this issue. I will conclude by offering some new approaches and tools for holistic ecodiversity conservation as an integral part of the urgently needed environmental revolution</style></abstract></record></records></xml>