Re: Fwd: URGENT: Publication of a Special Issue on Soundscape and it

["Peter Shute" pshute2]

"What is at stake is the possibility that our way of defining, experiencing=
, addressing the acoustic environment may be distorted by a larger, more in=
fluential group that has no investment in the nearly 40 years of discovery =
that began in the World Soundscape Project."=0D
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Can someone explain this, please? Who is this influential group?=0D
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And this:=0D
"It would not be helpful to have the term =E2=80=9Csoundscape=E2=80=9D redu=
ced to a mere variant of =E2=80=9Cnoise pollution=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9Ccaco=
phony,=E2=80=9D nor packaged into simple metrics for the ISO."=0D
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I'm not disagreeing, I'm just new to all this and don't know much about it.=
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Peter Shute=0D
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