Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health, and Policy - Softcover

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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.

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.

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Environmental Noise Pollution: Noise Mapping, Public Health, and Policy, Second Edition, addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise pollution using examples from across the globe. Environmental noise pollution is an emerging concern in public and environmental policy and is considered to be one of the most important environmental stressors affecting public health throughout the world. Thoroughly revised throughout, this new edition includes updated global case studies as well as new chapters on technology and noise, soundscapes and wind farm noise.

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 a fully updated resource on this major environmental pollutant that crosses disciplinary, policy and national boundaries.