Landscape science is a discipline that studies landscapes and is one of the supporting theories of tourism earth science. Landscape science includes landscape resources, landscape aesthetics, landscape ecology, and landscape design. The research mainly focuses on the classification of landscapes, aesthetic appreciation, natural landscape transformation, cultural landscape design, landscape construction and conservation. Landscape science is an extension of landscape design and interacts with many disciplines, such as geology, ecology, environment, landscape, architecture, planning, aesthetics, art, and sociology. It is an applied science based on natural and human sciences. Its core objective is to coordinate the relationship between man and nature. See Tourism Earth Science.
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(2020). Landscape Science. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_1347
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