Factors affecting tranquillity in the countryside

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 74, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1094-1103

  Watts, Greg R ^a   Pheasant, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jury experiment; Landscapes; Parks; Soundscapes; Tranquillity

Indexed keywords

COUNTRY PARKS; LANDSCAPES; MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATIONS; MEASUREMENTS OF; QUASI-RANDOM; SOUNDSCAPES; TRANQUILLITY; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; PARKS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84876946991     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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