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Human Behavior and Environment pp 87–121Cite as

Perception of Landscape and Land Use

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Air, water, fire, and earth were declared by Aristotle to be the four essential elements of life. Recent history has clearly demonstrated the significance of his declaration. As public awareness developed that all was not well with our environment, and as supporting evidence accumulated during the past two decades, attention was focused initially on the first two of these classically defined elements, air and water. Relationships between air and water quality and public health and safety were defined and, where possible, quantified and steps were taken to establish standards that were deemed to be consonant with desired and acceptable health and safety conditions. These standards, promulgated primarily through the legislative process, were based both on professional judgments and empirical data. The standards were defined in terms of physical parameters of the elements such as parts-per-million, units of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), or units of discharge per unit of time.

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    Joachim F. Wohlwill

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Zube, E.H. (1976). Perception of Landscape and Land Use. In: Altman, I., Wohlwill, J.F. (eds) Human Behavior and Environment. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2550-5_3

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