Beyond noise mitigation: Managing soundscapes as common-pool resources

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1311-1326

  Dumyahn, Sarah L ^a   Pijanowski, Bryan C ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic environment; Interviews; National Park Service; Natural resource management; Social Ecological Systems framework

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NOISE; PARK MANAGEMENT; RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054091108     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-011-9637-8     Document Type: Article

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