Abstract
Landscape can be viewed in terms of its inherent ecological space formation, and of human cognition of its visual appearence into account.
A case study of Ogasawara National Park with focus on Chichi-jima and Ani-jima was made in an attempting to evaluate the landscape in terms of ecological and visual aspects. These were analyzed and classified in terms of Natural Grade and Visi-bility Frequency, summarized in a “landscape eval-uation” map of the Study Area.
A comparison was made between the “landscape ev-aluation” map of the Study Area and the existing zoning of the park, revealing several points of difference:
1) The areas of Ani-jima zoned as an Ordinary Areawere relatively highly evaluated, perhaps deserving “Special Protection” status.
2) Among the areas of Chichi-jima as Special Areas, the secondary forests weren't sufficiently highly evaluated to deserve their Special status.
The conclusion was a recommendation that the pl-anning of Ogasawara National Park should be reexa-mined by taking “landscape evaluation” into account.
