Coastal Scenery Assessment by Means of a Fuzzy Logic Approach

Date

2019-01-01

Author

Ergin, Ayşen

Metadata

Show full item record

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Item Usage Stats

238
views

0
downloads

Landscape is a major element affecting people's life quality and coastal landscape evaluation is strongly rooted in the man-environment tradition. Coastal areas, all over the world, are under threat due to the conflicting requirements that rely on natural scenery of such as habitation, recreation, and industry. Since 'coastal scenery' is a natural resource, it has to be evaluated in an objective and quantitative way to provide a means of comparison against coastal activities and for environmental impact assessments. This chapter presents an evidence-based methodology called 'Coastal Scenic Evaluation System ( CSES)'. It is a technique that can be used not only for landscape preservation and protection, but also as scientific tool for envisaged coastal management and future development based upon plans formulated by an evidence-based approach. The results provide base-line information for a sound coastal management decision especially regarding intensive urban and industrial developments. CSES uses fuzzy logic to reduce subjectivity on decisions and obtain a quantitative evaluation of public survey research on 26 coastal scenic parameters having both physical and human perceptual characteristics. The weights of the scenic parameters were estimated by public survey questionnaires for Turkey, UK, Malta and Croatia and via consultations with coastal experts from the above mentioned four countries and Australia, Ireland, USA and Japan. Fuzzy logic mathematics was used to calculate a coastal scenic evaluation index ( D) from the checklist of 26 scenic parameters by using the attributed weights of the parameters which enabled to categorize scenic values of the coastal areas into five distinct classes.

Subject Keywords

Landscape Evaluation, Environment

URI

https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40885

Journal

COASTAL SCENERY: EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78878-4_4

Collections

Department of Civil Engineering, Article

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Coastal scenic assesment using fuzzy logic approach Karakaya, Selami Tansel; Ergin, Ayşen; Department of Civil Engineering (2004) This thesis analyzes the coastal landscape evaluation that is strongly rooted in the man-environment tradition. Scenery is a natural resource and managers need to attempt the evaluation of scenic resources in an objective and quantitative way that can be utilized mainly in landscape preservation and protection. The thesis will try to find an objective way in evaluation of the coastal scenery by using fuzzy logic mathematics and public perception studies. Using mathematical model developed within the frame w...
Present and historical landscape structure shapes current species richness in Central European grasslands Scherreiks, Pascal; Gossner, Martin M.; Ayasse, Manfred; Bluethgen, Nico; Fischer, Markus; Klaus, Valentin H.; Kleinebecker, Till; Neff, Felix; Prati, Daniel; Seibold, Sebastian; Simons, Nadja K.; Weisser, Wolfgang W.; Wells, Konstans; Westphal, Catrin; Thiele, Jan; Ambarlı, Didem (2022-03-01) Context Current diversity and species composition of ecological communities can often not exclusively be explained by present land use and landscape structure. Historical land use may have considerably influenced ecosystems and their properties for decades and centuries. Objectives We analysed the effects of present and historical landscape structure on plant and arthropod species richness in temperate grasslands, using data from comprehensive plant and arthropod assessments across three regions in Germany ...
A model for the conservation of geological remains as documents Sol, Ayhan (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1999-01-01) Geological remains are conserved mainly either together with living beings for the sake of the integrity of nature or for their economical or aesthetic value. However, they also have scientific value for the geologist to reconstruct the earth's past. For this reason we propose a model which is an application of marginal utility theory in economics and takes into account the informational utility of geological remains. Informational utility of geological remains ranges over their geological significance whic...
Terra Nova: An Integrated Landscape Art Program Prigann, Herman (Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, 1997) One of the main problems that we have with landscape today, is the far-reaching suppression of our co-responsibility for its condition. What is needed is a revision of our attitude to nature and landscape because when the object of interest is destroyed, the basis of this interest is also eliminated. Here, nature is defined neither as a thing nor as an assembly of things. It is not external or internal, it does not surround us, it is not available, it can neither be destroyed nor loved. Nature is a word wit...
Engineering geological characterization of the Antalya karstic rocks, southern Turkey Sopacı, Evrim; Akgün, Haluk (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016-03-01) This study encompasses engineering geological characterization of the Antalya karstic foundation rocks, particularly tufa, whose mechanical behavior is highly variable. The Antalya tufa rock has no well-developed discontinuity systems. It is variably porous, and is composed of different rock types with variable structures. To reveal the engineering geological parameters and to develop a thorough engineering geological database, which is not available in the literature for the Antalya tufa rock, geological o...

Citation Formats

A. Ergin, “Coastal Scenery Assessment by Means of a Fuzzy Logic Approach,” COASTAL SCENERY: EVALUATION AND MANAGEMENT, pp. 67–106, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/40885.