Policy discourse, people's internal frames, and declared aircraft noise annoyance: an application of Q-methodology

Maarten Kroesen1, Christian Bröer

  • 1Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. m.kroesen@tudelft.nl

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