COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE EVALUATION STRUCTURE OF RIVER LANDSCAPES BY THE SUBJECTS IN ENGLAND, JAPAN AND CHINA

The social and cultural background of subjects is one of the important factors on evaluation of environment or landscape. To clarify the effect of these differences, the experiment was carried out using the photographs of river landscape. The subjects were university students who lived in England, Japan and China.-In first, the psychological evaluation of landscapes such as the average evaluative scores of synthetic and individual evaluation, and the structure and the factor scores of evaluation with Image Measurement were analyzed among the three countries. After comparing the relation between the physical character and psychological evaluation, the similarity was found in individual items such as the amount of greenery and water and so on, and the differences were shown on synthetic items such as the feelings of satisfaction for landscape and water stream, because the social and cultural environment of the three countries is different and it would have an effect on evaluation.