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The relation between objective and subjective exposure to traffic noise around two suburban highway viaducts in Ghent : lessons for urban environmental policy

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Verbeek, Thomas (2018) The relation between objective and subjective exposure to traffic noise around two suburban highway viaducts in Ghent : lessons for urban environmental policy. Local Environment . pp. 1-20. doi:doi: 10.1080/13549839.2018.1428791

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2018.1428791

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Abstract

A growing empirical evidence base identifies environmental noise exposure as an important health problem. While the health effects depend for a great part on personal noise sensitivity and contextual factors, in environmental policy, generic noise standards and procedures based on objective sound levels are used. In this article, the relation between objective and subjective noise exposure variables is further explored by carrying out a residents’ survey in a highly noise polluted area along two highways south of the city centre of Ghent, Belgium. The survey results show only a weak correlation between objective and subjective exposure variables, with both variables demonstrating different associations with the respondents’ background characteristics. While lower-educated and lower-income people are generally higher exposed according to the models, they do not report a higher subjective exposure. People who have been living longer in the area are not necessarily higher exposed according to the models but do report a higher subjective exposure. Most strikingly, owners of a comfortable detached house report a higher subjective exposure than renters of an apartment or small house, while the latter group is significantly higher exposed according to the models. The results support a plea for the joint evaluation of both objective and subjective noise exposure variables in environmental policy and environmental assessments. In addition, the results argue for specific attention for noise exposure of socio-economically vulnerable people and the establishment of a shared knowledge base on noise exposure with both objective and subjective information.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Noise pollution -- Psychological apsects -- Ghent (Belgium), Noise pollution -- Health apsects -- Ghent (Belgium)
Journal or Publication Title: Local Environment
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 1354-9839
Official Date: 22 January 2018
Dates:
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22 January 2018Available
5 January 2018Accepted
12 May 2017Submitted
Page Range: pp. 1-20
DOI: doi: 10.1080/13549839.2018.1428791
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
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