Rural Landscape: A Systematic Review of Thematic Contexts

Rural settlements play an important role in preserving and validity of environmental values, cultural manifestations of tribes, and introducing the capacities of the natural environment and its effects on the structure of the "rural landscape". Based on studies and from the perspective of landscape architecture, the process of physical development of the village and the quality of the rural landscape interact with each other and are closely related to most of the values raised and especially in areas such as naturalism, ecotourism, and "rural tourism". In this interaction and process of improving the quality of the rural landscape in Iran, although more attention has been paid to the physical contexts of texture and architecture with emphasis on artificial environment, construction of buildings, and some aspects of rural tourism, in general, environmental capacity, indigenous power and effective natural environment infrastructures are less considered in the rural landscape. Also, there has been limited research on the study and recognition of common concepts and contexts between the two fields of landscape and rural tourism. The present study has entered the conceptual field of rural landscape and categorized the concepts related to the rural landscape during the systematic review of extensive studies that have been conducted in this field. The purpose of this study is to assess the situation, examine the concepts of the rural landscape, and also the common semantic relationships between rural landscape and rural tourism to explain the practice areas in the process of environmental sustainability and qualitative development of the rural landscape. The method is a combination of systematic review to identify and introduce the general framework of concepts related to the rural landscape and content analysis of relevant studies and documents in this field and finally to examine the semantic relationship between rural landscape and rural tourism. In this regard, authentic scientific databases and the Prisma statements have been used to study the documents and analyze data related to rural "landscape" including physical aspects, landscape, and natural environment of selected samples of villages with emphasis on social considerations and rural planning. Accordingly, a list of concepts and documents of 297 external samples from the Web of Science databases and 195 internal rural samples of Iran from the scientific databases of the Ganj, and Magiran were included