Territories and landscapes: place identity, quality of life and psychological well-being in rural areas

Different perspectives describe different characteristics related to the places of daily life: “territories” spatial-geographical areas with material and concrete dimensions, “landscape” environmental areas as perceived by the inhabitants, with cognitive, affective, social and aesthetical meanings. In the environmental psychology the term “place identity” means the aspects of the image of Itself in relationship to the meanings and in partnership values to a physical environment.