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Social evaluation is assumed as one of the most important factors in the environmental management planning scheme, especially when making and selecting alternative plans, and as a society is consist of individuals with diverse attributes the need of detailed examination of the effect of individual attributes on their evaluation must be emphasized to decide a social attitude.
This paper examines the effect of individual attributes on their evaluation of functions of coppice woodlands remaining in their surrounding environment, by a questionnaire survey implemented to the residents in Sakura and Yotsukaido City, located in the urban fringe area of Tokyo.
An analysis on evaluation pattern describes that nine assumed functions of coppice woodland are categorized into four groups, namely, Amenity Conservation (Group I), Land Conservation (Group II), Refuge Area (Group III) and Production (Group IV) . By relating attributes of each resident to the evaluation pattern, an effect of the attributes is identified in Group I and IV, while no effecct is identified in Group II and III. The most effective attribute on the evaluation of functions in group I and IV is explained as a rural and agricultural experience.
