Characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment of sound emissions

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 468-469, Issue , 2014, Pages 280-291

  Cucurachi, S ^a   Heijungs, R ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Annoyance; LCA; LCIA; Life cycle; Noise; Noise impacts

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; LIFE CYCLE; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ANNOYANCE; LCA; LCIA; NOISE; NOISE IMPACT;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; HEALTH IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NOISE POLLUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIAL DATA;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NIGHT; NOISE STANDARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUND ANALYSIS; SOUND INTENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AC; ANNOYANCE; ARCHETYPAL CONTEXT; BACKGROUND SOUND POWER LEVEL [DECIBEL]; C; CF; CHARACTERISATION FACTOR [NUMBER OF PEOPLE-PA/W]; D; DIRECTIVITY [DB]; EF; EFFECT FACTOR [NUMBER OF PEOPLE]; F; FATE FACTOR [PA/W]; FF; FREQUENCY INDEX; I; LCA; LCIA; LIFE CYCLE; LOCATION INDEX; LW; NF; NOISE; NOISE IMPACTS; NUMBER OF EXPOSED SUBJECTS; SC; SPATIAL CONTEXT; TIME INDEX;

ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SOUND;

EID: 84883801987     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.07.080     Document Type: Article

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