Noise Pollution Monitoring, Mapping and Health Impacts


ISBN 978-93-5547-261-8 (Print)
ISBN 978-93-5547-266-3 (eBook)
DOI: 10.9734/bpi/mono/978-93-5547-261-8


Like air and water noise has also emerged as pollutants in India. Due to increase industrialization and increase in traffic, noise has increased in our environment in a huge amount. Serious steps are being taken by the government of India for controlling of it. Rules and regulation has been made in order to control this. Though the efforts are being made but it is very difficult for bodies to control it. The main reason behind this is awareness among the peoples. In India people are less aware about the noise pollution when compared with water and then air. Impact of noise on the human act’s as a silent killer. So appropriate steps must be taken so that it can be controlled and impact on population can be minimized.

As per above it is very much essentials to make people aware as so that control of noise pollution can be done. In this respect I am happy to introduce my small venture: Noise pollution: Monitoring, Mapping and Health Impact. This gives a brief description of noise along with its properties. It also describes the sources, characteristics, methodology for measurement, impact on human and control strategy. Many other works has been done to control and measure the noise however in this book a short and brief description of all has been summarized.

References used in the books are mentioned along with the abbreviations, symbols and index. This book can be used as a material which can provide brief introduction about noise in short and can make people aware about the noise. I hope this book will benefit the reader in getting knowledge about noise pollution.

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Noise Pollution Monitoring, Mapping and Health Impacts

Vishal Kumar, A. V. Ahirwar, A. D. Prasad

Noise Pollution Monitoring, Mapping and Health Impacts, 26 October 2021, Page 1-33
https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mono/978-93-5547-261-8

Among the high ranking pollution, noise pollution has made its positions throughout the globe. There has been increase in noise pollution levels due to the industrialization, growth of traffic and other human activities. Developing countries are at high risk from the noise pollution. . In India people are less aware about the noise pollution when compared with water and then air.  It acts as silent poison on human health. Its affects are mostly visible on the population on long term of exposure. However the decay time of the noise in the environment is very short as compared to water and air pollution. In this book the introduction to sound, noise its monitoring techniques, impact on human and control of noise pollution has been summarized. The main objective of this is to make the population aware about the noise pollution and its adverse affect on the people exposed to it. Government in many countries have amended noise rule in order to control the noise pollution but in real it’s not implemented due to the awareness of the people. The different properties of sound along with its detailed definitions have been summarized in chapter 1. Consequently in the next chapter characteristics of noise along with its source of originations have been given so that people can get knowledge about the sources of noise in the environment. In continuation with this in third chapter measurement techniques and instrument required for the study of noise pollution has also been given in detail. Different noise rating systems and standards of noise as per different pollution board has been given in order to understand the impact on the environment. Impact on the human health due to noise pollution in described in chapter 4. And lastly the control of noise pollution at sources and by equipments has been summarized in the concluding chapter. This book is short introduction about the noise pollution along with properties, impact on human and control techniques. This is helpful in making the people aware about the high ranking noise pollution in the environment.