Publications by authors named "Hilary Notley"
Article Synopsis
- The article emphasizes the importance of effectively assessing noise annoyance as it is a common reaction in communities exposed to environmental noise.
- It reviews the development and updates of the International Standards Organization's Technical Specification for assessing noise annoyance, originally published in 2003 and updated in 2021.
- The paper discusses methodological challenges with existing assessment scales and calls for further standardization and multidimensional approaches to enhance noise annoyance research.
WHO published the Environmental Noise Guidelines for the European Region in 2018, based on seven systematic reviews including studies published between 2000 and 2014. Since then, new studies were published. At the request of the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), a review on annoyance, sleep disturbance, cardiovascular and metabolic effects in relation to environmental noise was prepared.
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