Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1974. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether community landscape values could be used in conservation strategy planning. The significance of rural landscape as cultural heritage has to do with how people perceive or value them. However, very little is known about the variability among cultures in the perception of such landscapes. Due to increasing threat by land and technological development, an understanding of their perception by people associated with them will aid in the formulation of strategies for rural landscape conservation and their integration into broad patterns of use. Thus, this study was aimed at understanding perceived landscape values held by communities of interest in Malaysia. Specifically, it focused on understanding how two different groups of stakeholders characterised landscape values. Using Q-Methodology it examined their socio-cultural construction of rural landscape and how those constructions defined their values and meanings, from individual and group viewpoints. A non-random sample of local residents from four villages in Kedah, a northern state in Peninsular Malaysia categorised for this purpose as insiders was compared with government servants, domestic and overseas tourists as outsiders. The respondents were shown photographs of landscape settings as representations of the rural landscape. They were asked to sort the photographs from most valued to least valued landscapes and asked to clarify their selection in a detailed interview.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1983. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 252-257).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1981. / Typescript. 7 slides in pockets. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-126).

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 98-105).

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of St Andrews, June 2008.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1998. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 535-571). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of California, Berkeley. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72-79]).

As urban areas increase in population, pressures are exerted upon vacant or undeveloped lands for housing, industry, public buildings, highway rights-of-way, and a host of other uses including parks. At the same time, pressures are placed upon existing parks to accomodate some of the other needs of expanding urban areas. The loss of lands that have been developed for recreation results in either the loss of a necessary activity or the reduction of the quality of the experience enjoyed by park users. Studies in the U.S.A. indicate that alienation of park lands by non-recreative uses is a serious problem. While many urban areas in Canada have experienced significant population increases and the resultant pressures on urban land during the last ten years, there has been no examination, on a provincial or national basis, of the effects of such trends on major parks (over 20 acres). Are park lands in this size category being alienated to provide land for non-recreative purposes? This thesis attempts to provide an answer to this and related questions. The findings of this study are based on 141 questionnaire returns from a survey of 234 Canadian municipalities with populations over 10,000. Two of 183 municipalities between 10,000 and 50,000 persons experienced a total of 5 alienations from 1960-1970. Seventeen of 51 municipalities over 50,000 persons experienced a total of 34 alienations during the same period. The land alienated was 13 per cent of the total park area affected; on the average, 15.5 acres of land were alienated per encroachment. Highways and roads, schools, and housing were the main uses alienating park lands. In most cases objections to the alienation by the parks board were overruled by the municipal council on the grounds that the encroaching use was of greater importance or that the land was cheaper. It is concluded that alienation of park lands in Canadian municipalities is a significant problem that to date has been unrecognized and un-publicized. Moreover, the study suggests that pressure on park lands will continue to mount in the foreseeable future. With the exception of parks given to a municipality in trust there is little to indicate that municipal legislation is oriented to protecting the major parks. In fact, parks that have been dedicated by public referendum are not guaranteed perpetual protection in all provinces. Parks, as viewed by some municipal councils, seem to represent a valuable form«of land bank for future development needs. The increasing public awareness of the value of major parks in urban areas may change this outlook in the future. / Applied Science, Faculty of / Community and Regional Planning (SCARP), School of / Graduate