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The Use and Misuse of Noise Standards

  • Therivel R
  • Bennett C
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2008), 327-340
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-31141-6_26
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Abstract

Noise standards aim to protect people from being annoyed or physically harmed. They thus try to translate an essentially subjective response by individuals (“I can’t concentrate because of the traffic noise”) into quantitative measures that can be applied to either the noise source or the ambient environment.

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Therivel, R., & Bennett, C. (2008). The Use and Misuse of Noise Standards. In Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment (pp. 327–340). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-31141-6_26

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