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Landscape professionals are accustomed to evaluation of landscape on behalf of society. They may do so descriptively in terms of landscape’s characteristics or of design principles, or numerically, as an overall impression or by assessing its components. For several reasons, cardinal numbers are needed. Despite formalisation, subjectivity of judgement remains. Landscape professionals have shifted from an elitist context to a paternalist perspective, then have tried to take on the viewpoints of a wider society, while still maintaining creativity.
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Price, C. (2017). Aesthetic Experts’ Approaches. In: Landscape Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54873-9_5
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