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

Environmental Noise Pollution, Second Edition, addresses the key debates surrounding environmental noise pollution, its modelling and mitigation using examples from across the globe. Environmental noise pollution is now an established concern in environmental and public policy and is considered one of the most important environmental stressors affecting public health throughout the world. Thoroughly revised, this new edition includes updated global case studies as well as new chapters on ‘soundscapes and noise mapping’ and ‘environmental noise and technology’.
This book examines environmental noise pollution, its health implications, noise modelling, 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 stressor that crosses disciplinary, policy and national boundaries.

• Highlights recent developments in the policy arena, with a particular focus on global developments in environmental noise management and mitigation
• 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 evidence linking noise with public health concerns
• Thoroughly revised throughout, with more global examples and two new chapters on technology and noise and soundscapes

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.