Green and calm: Modeling the relationships between noise pollution propagation and spatial patterns of urban structures and green covers

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 24, Issue , 2017, Pages 195-211

  Sakieh, Yousef ^a   Jaafari, Shirkou ^b   Ahmadi, Mohsen ^c   Danekar, Afshin ^b  

^a GORGAN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Composition and configuration metrics; Iran; Landscape ecology; Multiple linear regression; Noise pollution propagation; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GREENSPACE; INFRASTRUCTURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NOISE POLLUTION; POLLUTION MONITORING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN PLANNING;

IRAN;

EID: 85018872654     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2017.04.008     Document Type: Article

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