@article{8546066,
  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.}},
  author       = {{Verbeek, Thomas}},
  issn         = {{1354-9839}},
  journal      = {{LOCAL ENVIRONMENT}},
  keywords     = {{Traffic noise,noise exposure,noise annoyance,environmental policy,LONG-TERM EXPOSURE,AIRCRAFT NOISE,TRANSPORTATION NOISE,RESIDENTIAL EXPOSURE,MENTAL-HEALTH,MYOCARDIAL-INFARCTION,SOCIAL INEQUALITIES,SLEEP DISTURBANCE,ANNOYANCE,HYPERTENSION}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{4}},
  pages        = {{448--467}},
  title        = {{The relation between objective and subjective exposure to traffic noise around two suburban highway viaducts in Ghent : lessons for urban environmental policy}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2018.1428791}},
  volume       = {{23}},
  year         = {{2018}},
}

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