Discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in Taiwan

This study aims to develop a measureable tool to identify the feature of Taiwan cultural landscape. In-depth interviews from ten scholars were first conducted to design a questionnaire which contained a seven-dimension measurement model of identifying cultural landscape, and then 808 local parti...

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Main Authors: Sheng, Jung Ou, Chung, Heng Hsieh, Jing, Shoung Hou, Jan, Yau Lin, Wen, Bor Lu
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
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author Sheng, Jung Ou
Chung, Heng Hsieh
Jing, Shoung Hou
Jan, Yau Lin
Wen, Bor Lu
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Chung, Heng Hsieh
Jing, Shoung Hou
Jan, Yau Lin
Wen, Bor Lu
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description This study aims to develop a measureable tool to identify the feature of Taiwan cultural landscape. In-depth interviews from ten scholars were first conducted to design a questionnaire which contained a seven-dimension measurement model of identifying cultural landscape, and then 808 local participants were asked to response this questionnaire for gathering the quantitative data in four cultural significant sites. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were applied to confirm the structure of the supposed measurement model from the questionnaire data. The result of factor analysis showed that the confirmed measurement model was less complicated than the supposed measurement model. The cultural feature dimension of cultural landscape was composed of three factors which are environment element, human evidence and traditional custom. And the place meaning dimension of cultural landscape contained cultural atmosphere, life dependence and affective identity. This finding revealed the evidence that local participants’ perception to the feature of cultural landscape was very different from experts’ understanding of the composition of cultural landscape in Taiwan. It also hints the difficulty of conservation for cultural landscape was local people’s disregards to their cultural landscape since these features didn’t have any physical connection with local people’s daily life. This study build a 16-item scale measuring cultural landscape from the perspective of local people in Taiwan, which provide practitioners a reliable and valid analytical tool to assess cultural landscape. And it also offered government agencies a useful foundation to make conservation strategies with local people for cultural landscape.
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spelling usm-350352017-06-09T07:38:07Z http://eprints.usm.my/35035/ Discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in Taiwan Sheng, Jung Ou Chung, Heng Hsieh Jing, Shoung Hou Jan, Yau Lin Wen, Bor Lu TH1-9745 Building construction This study aims to develop a measureable tool to identify the feature of Taiwan cultural landscape. In-depth interviews from ten scholars were first conducted to design a questionnaire which contained a seven-dimension measurement model of identifying cultural landscape, and then 808 local participants were asked to response this questionnaire for gathering the quantitative data in four cultural significant sites. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis were applied to confirm the structure of the supposed measurement model from the questionnaire data. The result of factor analysis showed that the confirmed measurement model was less complicated than the supposed measurement model. The cultural feature dimension of cultural landscape was composed of three factors which are environment element, human evidence and traditional custom. And the place meaning dimension of cultural landscape contained cultural atmosphere, life dependence and affective identity. This finding revealed the evidence that local participants’ perception to the feature of cultural landscape was very different from experts’ understanding of the composition of cultural landscape in Taiwan. It also hints the difficulty of conservation for cultural landscape was local people’s disregards to their cultural landscape since these features didn’t have any physical connection with local people’s daily life. This study build a 16-item scale measuring cultural landscape from the perspective of local people in Taiwan, which provide practitioners a reliable and valid analytical tool to assess cultural landscape. And it also offered government agencies a useful foundation to make conservation strategies with local people for cultural landscape. 2013-02 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/35035/1/HBP42.pdf Sheng, Jung Ou and Chung, Heng Hsieh and Jing, Shoung Hou and Jan, Yau Lin and Wen, Bor Lu (2013) Discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in Taiwan. In: International Conference on Tourism Development: Building The Future Of Tourism, 4 - 5 February 2013, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
spellingShingle TH1-9745 Building construction
Sheng, Jung Ou
Chung, Heng Hsieh
Jing, Shoung Hou
Jan, Yau Lin
Wen, Bor Lu
Discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in Taiwan
title Discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in Taiwan
title_full Discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in Taiwan
title_fullStr Discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed Discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in Taiwan
title_short Discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in Taiwan
title_sort discussing the conceptual framework of cultural landscape in taiwan
topic TH1-9745 Building construction
url http://eprints.usm.my/35035/
http://eprints.usm.my/35035/1/HBP42.pdf