The results indicate that natural landscape features possess higher scenic beauty than manmade landscape features, specifically, the open water landscape is the most scenic in all landscape types tested. In addition to measurement of scenic beauty, the scenic value assessment analyzed the effect of two factors in the public preference model such as respondents' local familiarity bias and seasonal landscape change in order to better understand public perception. The study found that both factors significantly effect the scenic evaluation. However, although significant differences caused by the two factors were observed, strong agreement between the landscape features and scenic values was found.
People prefer landscapes dominated by natural features.
To provide landscape management guidelines from a more comprehensive perspective, other physical landscape resource values were combined with the scenic resource value, and all findings were synthesized into one format. This composite analysis indicates that most of the areas of high conservation values spatially overlap the areas of high development suitability. Thus, new development on suitable areas for development will cause the loss of significant land resource potential. The final step, the search for hypothetical proposed development areas, found that careful allocation of these areas is capable of providing a significant amount of new development sites while maintaining high conservation values. This study shows that a landscape assessment can play an important role in the land use decision-making process.