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Does Adding Local Tree Elements into Dwellings Enhance Individuals’ Homesickness? Scenario-Visualisation for Developing Sustainable Rural Landscapes

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  • Shuping Huang

    (College of Landscape Architecture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China
    Urban Forestry Research in Action, Department of Forest Resources Management, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada)

  • Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch

    (Urban Forestry Research in Action, Department of Forest Resources Management, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada)

  • Weicong Fu

    (College of Landscape Architecture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China
    Urban Forestry Research in Action, Department of Forest Resources Management, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning, Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
    Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada)

  • Jinda Qi

    (Faculty of Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia)

  • Ziru Chen

    (College of Landscape Architecture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China)

  • Zhipeng Zhu

    (College of Landscape Architecture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China)

  • Jianwen Dong

    (College of Landscape Architecture, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, Fujian, China)

Abstract

Rural residential settings are important elements of livable and sustainable rural areas across the world. Enhancing people’s attachment to these landscapes through fostering feelings of homesickness could help in the pursuit of better rural residential settings. We studied homesickness, an emotion found to be associated with higher place attachment and quality of life, related to rural landscapes in southeast China, looking specifically at the presence and configuration of rural dwellings and trees. We used Photoshop to manipulate different configurations of typical rural dwellings and trees, and three series with twelve types of landscape scenes were generated. We looked at the following six emotional factors linked to homesickness: naturalness; regional culture; identity; psychology; experience; and landscape aesthetics. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and semantic differential (SD) methods were used to evaluate the level in which the landscape evoked feelings of homesickness amongst study participants, i.e., a group of university students from different disciplines. Results show that the homesickness emotional response level was higher in most of the simulated landscapes, as compared to the original landscape, and that response levels differed significantly between the three types of visualized landscape configurations. The emotional response level showed differences for manipulated landscape scenes with twelve different trees added to dwellings. Through cluster analysis of the results, we divided trees into three grades of emotional response for each dwelling type. Adding trees thus was found to change the emotional response to the landscape, and different tree configurations with different types of dwellings results in different responses. The study shows that careful design of the rural landscape can help build stronger emotional relations of humans with their local environment, which is a key ingredient for sustainable countryside living.

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  • Shuping Huang & Cecil Konijnendijk van den Bosch & Weicong Fu & Jinda Qi & Ziru Chen & Zhipeng Zhu & Jianwen Dong, 2018. "Does Adding Local Tree Elements into Dwellings Enhance Individuals’ Homesickness? Scenario-Visualisation for Developing Sustainable Rural Landscapes," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-17, October.
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