Author(s)

Zhiyi Wang, Min Wan and Hongwei Liu

Corresponding Author

Zhiyi Wang

Abstract

Along with regional consubstantiality trend and local characteristics’ disappearing, protection and management on traditional landscape is imminent. As an essential perspective and means to study the relationship between human beings and land in regional geography, landscape characteristics assessment attaches importance to identification, assessment and formation mechanism of heterogeneity. In this paper, the author starts from the view of regional geography, to sort out relevant landscape connotation and development, giving popular research views of regional landscape. After analyzing the interaction between regional geography and landscape characteristics, both frontier methods and shortcomings of assessment are also given.

Keywords

Regional geography; cultural landscape; landscape Characteristics