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Environmental Noise Pollution
Noise Mapping, Public Health, and Policy
- 1st Edition - April 21, 2014
- Authors: Enda Murphy, Eoin A King
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 1 5 9 5 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 1 1 6 1 4 - 6
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Request a sales quoteEnvironmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health and Policy addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise pollution with a particular focus on the European Union. Environmental noise pollution is an emerging public policy and environmental concern and is considered to be one of the most important environmental stressors affecting public health throughout the world.
This book examines environmental noise pollution, its health implications, the role of strategic noise mapping for problem assessment, major sources of environmental noise pollution, noise mitigation approaches, and related procedural and policy implications. Drawing on the authors' considerable research expertise in the area, the book is the first coherent work on this major environmental stressor, a new benchmark reference across disciplinary, policy and national boundaries.
- Highlights recent developments in the policy arena with particular focus on developments in the EU within the context of the European Noise Directive
- Explores the lessons emerging from nations within the EU and other jurisdictions attempting to legislate and mitigate against the harmful effects of noise pollution
- Covers the core theoretical concepts and principles surrounding the mechanics of noise pollution as well as the evidence-base linking noise with public health concerns
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- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Environmental Noise Pollution
- Abstract
- 1.1 Debates and Challenges
- 1.2 Environmental Noise
- 1.3 The Book’s Focus and raison d'être
- Chapter 2: Principles of Environmental Noise
- Abstract
- 2.1 Sound as a Wave
- 2.2 Representing Sound Levels with the Decibel Scale
- 2.3 A-Weighting
- 2.4 Noise Metrics
- 2.5 Measuring Noise
- 2.6 Outdoor Sound Propagation
- 2.7 Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Environmental Noise and Health
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The Noise–Health Problem
- 3.3 The Noise–Stress Relationship and Effects Overview
- 3.4 Environmental Noise and Annoyance
- 3.5 Environmental Noise and Sleep Disturbance
- 3.6 Environmental Noise and Cardiovascular Disease
- 3.7 Environmental Noise and Cognitive Impairment in Children
- 3.8 Environmental Noise and Tinnitus
- 3.9 The Special Case of Low-Frequency Noise
- 3.10 Conclusion
- Chapter 4: Strategic Noise Mapping
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 EU Noise Policy and Legislation
- 4.3 The Environmental Noise Directive
- 4.4 Strategic Noise Mapping
- 4.5 Strategic Noise Mapping in the EU: Results from the First Phase (2007)
- 4.6 Strategic Noise Mapping Beyond the EU
- 4.7 Conclusion
- Chapter 5: Transportation Noise
- Abstract
- 5.1 Road Traffic Noise
- 5.2 Railway Noise
- 5.3 Aircraft Noise
- 5.4 Limitations and Further Considerations
- 5.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 6: Industrial and Construction Type Noise
- Abstract
- 6.1 A Note on Noise Criteria
- 6.2 Industrial Noise
- 6.3 Port Noise
- 6.4 Airports as Industrial Sources
- 6.5 Wind Farm Noise
- 6.6 Construction Noise
- 6.7 Mining Mineral/Extraction Sites
- 6.8 Conclusion
- Chapter 7: Noise Mitigation Approaches
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Strategic Noise Mitigation: The Noise Action Planning Process
- 7.3 Mitigation Approaches
- 7.4 Source-Based Abatement
- 7.5 Propagation Measures
- 7.6 Case Studies in Noise Abatement
- 7.7 Cost-Efficiency Issues
- 7.8 Conclusion
- Chapter 8: Conclusions and Future Directions
- Abstract
- 8.1 Progress
- 8.2 Limitations and Future Research Priorities
- Index
- No. of pages: 282
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 21, 2014
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780124115958
- eBook ISBN: 9780124116146
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Enda Murphy
is Professor of Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests centre on environmental noise modelling, mapping and noise-health relationships. He has published extensively in the field of environmental noise and is author/co-author of more than 100 academic journal papers, book chapters, conference proceeding papers and reports, and is co-author of two books.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Architecture, Planning, & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, IrelandEK
Eoin A King
Dr Eoin A King is a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway). His research interests include sound propagation modelling, strategic noise mapping techniques and environmental noise control, and he has published extensively in the field of acoustics and environmental assessment. He is the current Vice President (Communications) of the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE), Managing Editor of Noise/News International and a member of the European Commission’s Noise Expert Group.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway (NUI Galway).Read Environmental Noise Pollution on ScienceDirect