ABSTRACT
The objective assessment of landscape scenes along a standard set of visual dimensions will make important contributions to the scientific study of man-environment relations (Craik, 1968; 1969a; 1970) and to innovative practices in natural resources management (Litton and Twiss, 1966; Litton, 1968). The capacity to relate observers' descriptions and evaluations of landscapes to systematically varied landscape attributes opens up promising opportunities for research in environmental psychology. An objective system of landscape dimensions has value for natural resources management because of its immediate implications for improved methods of conducting landscape inventories and evaluating landscape resources.
