On the relationship between blast noise complaints and community annoyance
| Autor: | Trent Gaugler, Kathleen K. Hodgdon, Edward T. Nykaza, Peg Krecker, George A. Luz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Firearms Time Factors Acoustics and Ultrasonics Poison control Explosions Annoyance Audiology Choice Behavior Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Residence Characteristics Surveys and Questionnaires Injury prevention Military Facilities medicine Humans Irritable Mood Noise pollution Human factors and ergonomics Environmental exposure Environmental Exposure Noise Psychology human activities |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 133(5) |
| ISSN: | 1520-8524 |
| Popis: | Military installations typically rely on noise complaints to indicate adverse noise environments and often restrict the firing of certain weapons to reduce the number of noise complaints. Using complaints in this manner may also imply that the absence of complaints is an indicator of low community annoyance. The relationship between individual complaints and general community annoyance, however, is currently not established, and it is unknown whether implementing restrictions in reaction to individual complaints is an appropriate or necessary way to reduce community annoyance. This paper looks at whether there are significant differences in reported annoyance to complaint-referenced blast events and general military noise annoyance between those who complain and their non-complaining neighbors. Those who complained were significantly more annoyed to both complaint-referenced blast events and general military noise in comparison to their non-complaining neighbors. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of range management. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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