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Environmental urban noise / edited by Amando García.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in ecological sciences ; v. 8.
- Advances in ecological sciences, 1369-8273 ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City noise.
- Noise pollution.
- Noise control.
- Physical Description:
- 225 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Southampton ; Boston : WIT Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- A comprehensive and up-to-date overview, this volume includes all the fundamental aspects required to understand this important field of environmental science. Each chapter is presented in a form easily accessible to a wide range of readers in fields as diverse as physics, engineering, architecture, urbanism, health, education, law, and psychology. Chapters are divided under the main section headings: Physical Assessment and Rating of Urban Noise; Effects of Noise on Helath; Community Response to Environmental Noise; Prediction of Urban Noise; and Urban Noise Control.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1853127523
- OCLC:
- 45852904
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