Soundscape Assessment of Green and Blue Infrastructures

Autor: Yalcin Yildirim, Merve Dilman, Volkan Muftuoglu, Sara Demir
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Urban Science, Vol 6, Iss 1, p 22 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2413-8851
DOI: 10.3390/urbansci6010022
Popis: Green and blue infrastructures provide economic, environmental, and social benefits to urban life. Various areas that are passing through such infrastructures have implications for those benefits. For instance, urban, rural, agricultural, and industrial zones extend the services and disservices of green and blue infrastructures. Such extensions also have various implications on the environment and public health. Sound is one of those under-examined aspects of aggregated effects of green and blue infrastructures. This study aims to contribute to whether soundscape is affected by three pillars of urban, industrial, and rural areas among green and blue infrastructures. The study result shows no significant difference among those zones; however, urbanized areas include the highest sound levels. Industrial and rural zones show similar patterns. The study also identified that green infrastructure has more effects on the soundscape paradigm. The results also imply that green and blue infrastructures should be designated in harmony to produce a more sound-friendly environment considering the current major uses of the areas.
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