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2008 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
The Use and Misuse of Noise Standards
Authors : Riki Therivel, Chris Bennett
Published in: Standards and Thresholds for Impact Assessment
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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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.