Visual cross-border research on common Croatian and Hungarian riparian landscapes

The first part of the paper gives an overview of research papers on the landscape with special emphasis on the visual and environmental studies. Long-time development of visual research landscape provides a basis for a critical review pointing to the need to increase the validity of visual research, the category selection, visual perspective of a landscape, as well as the technical characteristics of the performance of visual material. In this paper the results of research of attitudes of Hungarian and Croatian students, conducted through visual materials and questionnaires on river landscape transformation are interpreted. The results indicate the need for harmonization of cross-border categorizations of the observed landscape, as well as the complement of the objective parameters by the parameters which include cultural accumulation.