Environmental noise pollution in residential areas of the city of Curitiba

Acustica

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 625-628

  Zannin, Paulo Henrique Trombetta ^a   Diniz, Fabiano Belisário ^a   Calixto, Alfredo ^a   Barbosa, Wiliam Alves ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NOISE POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; NOISE EMISSION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 0012457777     PISSN: 00017884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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