The quiet rural soundscape and how to characterize it

Acta Acustica united with Acustica

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 887-897

  De Coensel, Bert ^a   Botteldooren, Dick ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PUBLIC POLICY;

ACOUSTICAL ENVIRONMENT; POLICY INTENTIONS; RESTORATIVE ENVIRONMENT;

ACOUSTICS;

EID: 33845955307     PISSN: 16101928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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