Despite the diminishment of environmentally threatening development, recent social factors such as increasing local elderly population and shortage of successor of agricultural activities have instead accelerated the deterioration of secondary grassland landscapes. This research, focusing on the secondary grasslands in Aso Region, on the purpose to resolve the various problems caused by the recession of management activities that is difficult to solve by the existing national park planning, considers the criteria and evaluation method for the future landscape management of national parks. This research then proposes new evaluation methods based on the following factors : 1 various people's spatial perception pattern of the grasslands and 2 re-zoning of the grasslands according to the grassland type on the basis of macro landform, and examines the applicability to the landscape management of national parks.
