Policy discourse, people's internal frames, and declared aircraft noise annoyance: An application of Q-methodology

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 195-207

  Kroesen, Maarten ^a   Bröer, Christian ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT NOISE; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LOCAL PROBLEMS; NOISE ANNOYANCE; NOISE POLICY; POLICY DISCOURSE; POLICY MAKING; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; AIRCRAFT; AVIATION;

NOISE POLLUTION;

AIRCRAFT NOISE; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; AVIATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUND;

AIRCRAFT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; EMOTIONS; ENVIRONMENT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; POLICY MAKING;

EID: 68149136276     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3139904     Document Type: Article

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