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Environmental noise in Beijing
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2004Beijing is a city under rapid development. More than 60% of the complaints on the environment comes from noise pollution. With a road system of total length of 4200 km and thousands of construction sites, road traffic, and construction are the most important noise sources in Beijing. One third of its population of nearly 14 million inhabitants and more
Jing Tian, Yi Wang
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Environmental noise, sleep and health
Sleep Medicine Reviews, 2007Unlike other physical ambient factors (i.e. electromagnetic fields or air pollutants), noise is perceived by a specific system (auditory system) in humans. It is therefore a phenomenon that is sensed and evaluated by everybody, and this is why exposure to noise is one of the most, if not the most, frequent complaints of populations living in large ...
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Community-based environmental noise management
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2002After a series of major successes in implementing national environmental noise policies from the 1960s to the 1980s, the U.S. has not kept up with improvements in environmental noise policies seen in other areas of the world, most notably in Europe during the past decade. The cessation of funding for the EPA Office of Noise Abatement and Control (ONAC)
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Indicators of Environmental Noise
1972Noise in the environment is not an altogether new area for consideration. As noted above, scriptural references are available that provide insight into the presence of noise as a topic of note several hundred years ago. In addition, great world literature has known occasional references to annoying sound levels such as the invective of the Roman poet ...
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Local Filtering of Environmental Noise
2002Cleveland, Ohio ...
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Environmental Factors II. Noise
1965Noise can best be described as unwanted sound. This definition can cover a wide variety of situations from a high ambient noise level which can cause actual damage to hearing, to the radio in the garden next door, of which it can be said that one man’s music is another man’s noise! The nature of sound transmission has already beeen described in Chapter
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Current State-of-the-Art and New Directions in Strategic Environmental Noise Mapping
Current Pollution Reports, 2020E. Murphy, J. Faulkner, Owen Douglas
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