1 LANDSCAPE PREFERENCES OF MONTADO AND DIFFERENT TYPES OF MONTADO

The paper explores preferences of Montado and different types of Montado by landowners and land-users. This assessment is required to obtain knowledge about people’s relation to landscapes, to be included in future planning and in management options of multifunctional landscape. The methodology for identification of landscape preferences used in this work is based on face-to-face interviews and photographs of landscape as visual stimuli. The focus groups were landowners, workers and residents in district of Coruche. Results from 50 interviews shows that Montado is the most preferred landscape type between the other landscape types in region. The most preferred type of Montado of Cork Oak is that of combination of silvo-pastoral system with clean understorey from shrubs and land cover about 40-60 % by adult trees