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| Year : 2007 | Volume
: 9
| Issue : 35 | Page : 42--44 |
The socio-economic impact of noise: A method for assessing noise annoyance
Truls Gjestland
SINTEF ICT, Trondheim, Norway
Correspondence Address:
Truls Gjestland
SINTEF ICT, Trondheim
Norway
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/1463-1741.36979
Norwegian authorities have developed and adopted a method for assessing the magnitude of noise impact on a community in quantitative terms. The method takes into account all levels of noise annoyance experienced by all the residents in an area and transforms these data into a single quantity that can also be expressed in monetary terms. This method is contrary to other commonly used assessment methods where only a certain fraction of the impacted people, e.g. those "highly annoyed," is considered.
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