Assessment of community noise problem in Greater Beirut Area, Lebanon

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 203-218

  Korfali, Samira Ibrahim ^a   Massoud, May ^b  

^a LEBANESE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Effects; Noise pollution; Sources; Statistical analysis; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; CORRELATION METHODS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PRESSURE LEVELS;

NOISE POLLUTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NOISE POLLUTION; POINT SOURCE; POPULATION GROWTH; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEBANON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NOISE POLLUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; SAMPLE; SOUND PRESSURE; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

LEBANON;

EID: 0037799610     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023322507415     Document Type: Article

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