Respondents' answers to community attitudinal surveys represent impressions of soundscapes and not merely reactions to the physical noise

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 767-772

  Schomer, Paul ^a   Mestre, Vincent ^b   Schulte Fortkamp, Brigitte ^c   Boyle, James ^a  

^a Schomer and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b Division of Landrum and Brown   (United States)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; NOISE SOURCE; ONE-NUMBER; SONIC ENVIRONMENTS; SOUNDSCAPES; TOLERANCE LEVELS;

SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEMOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NOISE; PUBLIC OPINION;

CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DATA COLLECTION; NOISE; PUBLIC OPINION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 84880489201     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4808075     Document Type: Article

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