QUIETE: A scheme for a new index of the environmental quality of green areas

Noise Mapping

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 49-58

  Brambilla, Giovanni ^a   Gallo, Veronica ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental quality; Green areas; Rating index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990987988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2084879X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/noise-2016-0004     Document Type: Article

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