Abstract
In depopulated and aging rural areas, the importance of the rural improvement is increasing in recent year. Especially, the agricultural road improvement is very important for the sake of activating rural areas. In this improvement, the cut slope causes a serious problem from the standpoint of natural environmental protection.
In this paper, we investigated physical profiles of cut slopes and conducted a questionnaire for landscape evaluation with Semantic-Differential method. The model for landscape evaluation was formed making use of these obtained data. And applying covariance structure model, we analyzed the relationship between the physical measurements on a cut slope and the subjective-psychological judgment on landscape evaluation by the medium of latent factors about the cut slope of agricultural road. As a result of analysis, we can investigate statistically the significance of causality under assuming proper factors, and obtain operational information for landscape improvement using the proposed model for analyzing landscape evaluation. Therefore this model is considered as a useful method for designers with the improvement planning.
