From a general perspective, the verbal judgements referred to above have been obtained with one of two principal objectives in mind, objectives that have origi- nated and developed in traditionally differentiated pro- fessional fields: (1) that of environmental management, motivated by the need to solve a particular landscape problem, such as the identification of the landscape resources of a given location or to obtain some objecti- ve predictors of the evaluative judgements of users of a specific environment; and (2) that of a much more aca- demic character, geared to the development of concep- tual and theoretical frameworks for the explanation of subjects’ aesthetic judgements
