From the WHO guidelines for community noise to healthy soundscapes

Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics

Volumn 28, Issue PART 7, 2006, Pages 1-9

  Berglund, B ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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