ZUBE, ERVIN H., Cross-Disciplinary and Intermode Agreement on the Description and Evaluation of Landscape Resources

are expanding to encompass a wider range of resources. As a result, questions of cross-disciplinary understanding and of effective communications between the planning team members become more important. The inclusion of scenic resources in some of these expanded programs has also raised questions of the efficacy of alternative modes of resource inventory and analysis. Findings from this study indicate that the extent of agreement between environmental designers and resource managers on the use of descriptive and evaluative landscape terms is generally high. A comparison of data obtained from two modes of inventory and