What we are doing
Developing evidence-based and publicly acceptable policies and recommended interventions have the potential to ‘de-lock’ unsustainable practices or sub-optimal development trajectories or path dependencies towards path creation for more resilient and healthier social-ecological systems. To address this theme, the research will:
The principal output of the project will be the establishment of a national evidence-base for the burden of disease from environmental noise informed by high-quality data analysis coupled with policy and practice recommendations to integrate and embed environmental noise pollution issues within various policy domains.
Developing evidence-based and publicly acceptable policies and recommended interventions have the potential to ‘de-lock’ unsustainable practices or sub-optimal development trajectories or path dependencies towards path creation for more resilient and healthier social-ecological systems. To address this theme, the research will:
- Supply the evidence-base to establish the links between environmental noise and health.
- Provide a benchmark study of the existing disease burden from environmental noise to establish a baseline noise-health disease burden for future reduction through improved national practice and appropriate policy solutions.
- Undertake applied city-based research to understand the causal relationship between noise and health so that targeted policy interventions can be established.
- Mobilise this knowledge in developing innovative guidance, health impact/proofing toolkits, and developing evidence-informed noise mitigation solutions for reducing population exposure to environmental noise.
The principal output of the project will be the establishment of a national evidence-base for the burden of disease from environmental noise informed by high-quality data analysis coupled with policy and practice recommendations to integrate and embed environmental noise pollution issues within various policy domains.
