Study on the Evaluation of the Forest Conserved in the Newtown

Abstract

This study intends to discuss regarding the planning and maintenance technique of the forest conserved in the newtown, based on clarifying the relationship between the physical conditions of the conserved forest and human responses. Analyses were proceeded using the informations which were collected from questionnarie to housewives who were living at the Senboku Newtown in Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture. Analyses were proceeded from the following three differrent view points; 1. Relationship between the physical conditions of the conserved forest and the utilization values. 2. Relationship between the physical conditions of the conserved forest and human cognitive evaluation. 3. Relationship betweenthe physical conditions of the conserved forest and human demands for maintenance.
Through this study, the following findings were obtained; 1) The utilization values were considerably influenced by the location and the topographical conditions of the conserved forest. 2) The human cognitive evaluation and the demans for maintenance were more influenced by the conditions at forest edge than by the total vegetation of the conserved forest. 3) Users' evaluation for the conserved forest was higher than non-users' evaluation.