Abstract
Landscape distraction caused by open-cut mining is one of the environmental problems. For the purpose of analysis on landscape of mined-out quarry, evaluative examinations were conducted with semantic differential method. Four mined-out quarries were adopted as subjects of study. They were presented by color slide films and evaluated with 15 pairs of adjective scales by 77 students of Iwate university and 30 citizens of Morioka city. Adjective scales consisted of antonyms, for example “ugly and beautiful”, and were graduated to five stages. From the data of evaluative examination, three kinds of statistical analyses were conducted, namely profile analysis, cluster analysis and factor analysis. In the profile analysis, similarity and adaptation of adjective scales to mined-out quarry became clear qualitatively. In the cluster analysis, it became possible to understand the factor of landscape evaluation of mined-out quarry systematically. In the factor analysis with varimax method, became clear that there were several factors to estimate the landscape evaluation, namely “sense scale”, “balance scale”, “beauty scale” and “natural scale” including “size scale”
