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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/284083 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Shuib, Kamarul Bahrain |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | EN-AUS |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | Copyright Kamarul Bahrain Shuib 2008 |
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