Community response to military shooting noise immissions - preliminary results
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The assessment of the impact of noise exposure on the population is a fundamental step in noise abatement. It includes the establishment of exposure-response relationships with the use of empirical studies and the setting of an exposure limit that specifies the protection level for the population and eventually triggers mitigating measures to reduce noise exposure. Exposure-response relationships are common for most kinds of traffic or industrial noise. They usually relate noise exposure to the percentage of highly annoyed persons (%HA). As military shooting noise (as a result of military training activities in times of peace) is less of a problem for the majority of the population, there are relatively few studies investigating its effects to be found in the literature and hence the impact of military shooting noise from training grounds of armies is far less well understood than effects of traffic or industrial noise.
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