scholarly journals Current noise pollution situation in the territory of the city of Novi Sad and possible health effects

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (81) ◽  
pp. 12-15
Author(s):  
Emina Kričković ◽  
Zoran Kričković

Noise pollution or environmental noise is certainly one of the factors which determine health population of the city of Novi Sad and based on noise level depends the life quality of the population. In this paper noise pollution state in subject territory will be identified, through year average values of daily (Lday), evening (Levening), nightly (Lnight) and total (Lden) noise indicators on measuring spots, population exposure to noise pollution, health effects as well as protection measures that should be adopted. During 2019, in the territory of the city of Novi Sad average year values of daily, evening and nightly indicators were elevated in all zones ("zones of city roads", "residential areas", "education zone"), apart from evening noise which, in the zone of city roads, was in accordance with national normative.

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Glairton Cardoso Rocha ◽  
Antonio Carlos Tavares

<p class="CorpoA">Os ambientes costeiros são considerados espaços estratégicos devido à diversidade de funções econômicas, sociais e ambientais.  Nesses espaços se desenvolvem múltiplos usos, por agentes que possuem os mais variados interesses, levando muitas vezes a conflitos de ordem socioambiental. Estratégias de gestão podem ser usadas para enfrentar tais problemas, especialmente através do envolvimento popular. A inserção das comunidades deve ocorrer desde o levantamento de informações até o processo de tomada de decisão. O presente trabalho objetiva coletar informações  socioambientais por meio do uso de questionários semi-estruturados, na comunidade de Macapá, município de Luis Correia, estado do Piauí. Os questionários foram aplicados nas residências da comunidade e respondidos por um representante familiar, perfazendo um total de 78 participantes. A partir das informações levantadas foi possível traçar o perfil socioeconômico da comunidade, avaliar a estrutura higiênico-sanitária e identificar potencialidades e limitações de uso. Assim, verificaram-se o baixo nível de escolaridade e renda média das famílias e as deficiências relacionadas ao abastecimento de água, esgotamento sanitário e coleta de resíduos. Além disso, foi possível identificar potencialidades que podem ser exploradas por atividades de ecoturismo, por exemplo, e limitações relacionadas à implantação de estruturas rígidas. As informações apuradas são úteis para o delineamento de políticas de gestão que compatibilizem o desenvolvimento econômico, a melhoria na qualidade de vida da população e a manutenção da qualidade das funções ambientais.</p><p class="CorpoA"><strong>Palavras–</strong><strong>chave</strong>: gestão costeira, políticas públicas, potencialidades e limitações de uso.</p><p class="CorpoA" align="center"> </p><p class="CorpoA"><strong>Abstract</strong><strong></strong></p><p class="CorpoA">Costal environments are considered strategic spaces due to the diversity of economic, social and environmental functions. Agents that have the most varied interests develop several uses in those spaces, many times leading to socioenvironmental conflicts. Management strategies can be used to face such problems, particularly through popular engagement. The inclusion of communities should happen since the information gathering to the process of decision taking. The present issue aims to collect socioenvironmental information with semi-structured questionnaires in the communitie of Macapá, in the city of Luis Corrêa, State of Piauí. The questionnaires were applied in the cities residences, answered by a family’s representative, making up 63 attendees. From the information gathered, it was possible to draw the socioeconomic profile of the community, to evaluate the hygienic and sanitary structure and identify potentialities and limitations of use. Thus, a low level of schooling and average income of families were verified, deficiencies in relation to water supply, sanitary sewage and waste collection.  Besides that, it was possible to identify potentialities that can be explored by ecotourism activities, for instance, besides the limitations related the implantation of rigid structures. The collected information are useful for the drawing of management policies that reconcile the economic development, the improvement of the life quality of the population and the quality keeping of the environmental functions.</p><p class="CorpoA"><strong>Keywords</strong>: coastal management, public policies, potentialities and limitation of use.</p>


Author(s):  
Augusto Tovar Numpaque

ResumenEsta investigación aporta bases científicas y metodológicas de diagnóstico territorial, relacionadas al efecto causal de las autopistas elevadas sobre su entorno inmediato. Para lograrlo se utilizan antecedentes históricos y normativos, pero también, el procesamiento de datos abiertos y la utilización de herramientas econométricas que dimensionan impacto. Los resultados identifican 11.893 hogares afectados por contaminación sonora, reducción en la edificabilidad, reducción en el valor de las propiedades y aumento en la probabilidad de robo o hurto. La Ciudad de Buenos Aires es la principal centralidad de la región en términos de empleo, producción y servicios del país. Esta condición sustenta la utilidad de las autopistas en términos económicos y de movilidad; sin embargo, enfrenta desafíos de impacto ambiental y calidad de vida, que deben ser priorizados en el marco de la agenda de cambio climático y vulnerabilidad de las poblaciones. En el documento se analiza además la evolución del modelo de ciudad con autopistas, sus transformaciones y las posibilidades futuras de estas infraestructuras en los entornos urbanos. Optimizarlas, reemplazarlas por túneles o derribarlas, son las principales acciones que las ciudades vienen desarrollando, específicamente para la recualificación de zonas céntricas, frentes costeros y entornos barriales.AbstractThis research provides scientific and methodological bases for territorial diagnostics, related to the causal effect of elevated expressways on their immediate surroundings. To achieve this, historical and normative background is used, but also, the open data processing and the use of econometric tools that measure impact. The results identify 11.893 households affected by noise pollution, reduction in buildability, reduction in property value and increase in the probability of larceny or robbery. The city of Buenos Aires is the main centrality of the region in terms of employment, production and services of the country. This condition underpins the usefulness of expressways in terms of economics and mobility; however, it faces challenges of environmental impact and quality of life, which must be prioritized within the framework of climate change and the vulnerability agenda of populations. This document also analyses the evolution of the city model with motorways, their transformations and the future possibilities of these infrastructures in urban environments. Optimizing them, replacing them with tunnels or demolishing them, are the main actions that cities are developing, specifically for the re-qualification of central areas, coastal fronts and neighborhood environments.


Proceedings ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Rosa Alsina-Pagès ◽  
Laura Echevarría-Garuz

Noise pollution is one of the growing issues in our cities. Every day the streets are full of vehicles of all kinds and works using noisy machinery; it seems difficult to find a quiet area that away from this acoustic environment. Presently, multiple studies are being carried out in the area of engineering in order to be able to attenuate the causes of this noise pollution, in order to improve citizens’ lives. Nevertheless, are cars the only cause of the noise in the city? Are there other noise sources that may affect the quality of life of the citizens? What defines a city as heavily polluted or not? Maybe it can be assumed that truck noise is annoying and that it contributes to noise pollution, while the sound of birds does not and it is pleasant for people. This paper pretends to analyze the physical parameters that allow us to define if any sound causes annoyance, taking into account its acoustic environment. To do this, a specific case will be analysed; we will study three locations measured in Andorra La Vella and Escaldes-Engordany. The audio recordings will be studied deeply, and compared one to the other using data from two different days and all day schedule. We will finally evaluate the annoyance of each location using parameters such as loudness, sharpness and roughness, and taking into account both day and time, as well as giving details about the several types of sound labelled in each recording.


2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Erdal Akyol ◽  
Mutlu Alkan ◽  
Ali Kaya ◽  
Suat Tasdelen ◽  
Ali Aydin

In recent years, life quality of the urban areas is a growing interest of civil engineering. Environmental quality is essential to display the position of sustainable development and asserts the corresponding countermeasures to the protection of environment. Urban environmental quality involves multidisciplinary parameters and difficulties to be analyzed. The problem is not only complex but also involves many uncertainties, and decision-making on these issues is a challenging problem which contains many parameters and alternatives inherently. Multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) is a very prepotent technique to solve that sort of problems, and it guides the users confidence by synthesizing that information. Environmental concerns frequently contain spatial information. Spatial multicriteria decision analysis (SMCDA) that includes Geographic Information System (GIS) is efficient to tackle that type of problems. This study has employed some geographic and urbanization parameters to assess the environmental urbanization quality used by those methods. The study area has been described in five categories: very favorable, favorable, moderate, unfavorable, and very unfavorable. The results are momentous to see the current situation, and they could help to mitigate the related concerns. The study proves that the SMCDA descriptions match the environmental quality perception in the city.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sook-Youn Kwon ◽  
Kyoung-Mi Im ◽  
Jae-Hyun Lim

As issues of environment and energy draw keen interest around the globe due to such problems as global warming and the energy crisis, LED with high optical efficiency is brought to the fore as the next generation lighting. In addition, as the national income level gets higher and life expectancy is extended, interest in the enhancement of life quality is increasing. Accordingly, the trend of lightings is changing from mere adjustment of light intensity to system lighting in order to enhance the quality of one’s life as well as reduce energy consumption. Thus, this study aims to design LED context lighting system that automatically recognizes the location and acts of a user in residential areas and creates an appropriate lighting environment. The proposed system designed in this study includes three types of processing: first, the creation of a lighting environment index suitable for the user’s surroundings and lighting control scenarios and second, it measures and analyzes the optical characteristics that change depending on the dimming control of lighting and applies them to the index. Lastly, it adopts PIR, piezoelectric, and power sensor to grasp the location and acts of the user and create a lighting environment suitable for the current context.


1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (11) ◽  
pp. 1499-1520 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Pacione

The structure and distribution of quality of life forms a key area of research in human geography, with particular attention given to conditions at the disadvantaged end of the quality-of-life spectrum. To date, most work has focused on the national, regional, or interurban scale. However, whereas descriptive pattern identification and mapping is of value at the macroscale as a pointer to detailed work, policy-relevant quality-of-life indicators are more likely to be derived at the local scale and to be related to specific life concerns. In the present research, a multiscale multiindicator methodology is used to examine the structure and distribution of life quality in Glasgow. In a series of analyses in which objective and subjective indicators are employed at different geographic scales, the city-wide pattern of life quality is identified and a number of severely disadvantaged subareas isolated. Within one such subarea the quality-of-life experience of a particular social group, the elderly, is examined in detail. Application of the methodology in other cities could facilitate intercity and cross-cultural comparisons of quality-of-life variations within contemporary urban areas. Such investigations can also be of practical utility for decisionmakers seeking to define priorities for social policy.


Author(s):  
Maria Do Carmo

RESUMO:Esse ensaio contextualiza a produção de sal marinho no Brasil e sua localização no período colonial, próximo aos povoados da costa nordestina para investigar a inserção das antigas salinas nas cidades. As salinas artesanais foram transformadas em áreas residenciais, mas dada as condições ambientais de algumas áreas, ainda, existe a oportunidade de integrá-las na condição de infraestrutura urbana verde resgatando, também, sua memória cultural. Assim, se faz uma evolução das áreas ocupadas por salinas e dos métodos de produção, quando se situa às condições mais propícias a produção do sal, bem como, seus conflitos com a proteção dos ecossistemas de manguezais das planícies flúvio- marítimas. Se discute a capacidade de regeneração desses ecossistemas em áreas de salinas desativadas e sua oportunidade de instalação de parques urbanos em cidades desprovidas de verde. O caso de estudo ocorre na área das antigas Salinas Diogo, que hoje é o Parque do rio Cocó na cidade de Fortaleza. Como resultado se destaca a integração das áreas de salinas à cidade com grande ganho de qualidade de vida urbana, mas que, por outro lado, as salinas não comparecem na imagem coletiva urbana o que remete a um estudo de proteção da memória da paisagemcultural.  RESUMEN:Este ensayo contextualiza la producción de sal marina en Brasil y su ubicación en el período colonial, cerca de las aldeas de la costa noreste para investigar la inserción de antiguas salinas en las ciudades. Las salinas artesanales se transformaron en áreas residenciales, pero dadas las condiciones ambientales de algunas áreas, todavía existe la oportunidad de integrarlas en la condición de infraestructura urbana verde, también rescatando su memoria cultural. Las áreas ocupadas por solución salina y los métodos de producción evolucionan cuando se crean las condiciones más favorables para la producción de sal, así como sus conflictos con la protección de los ecosistemas de manglar de las llanuras marítimas fluviales. Se discute la capacidad regenerativa de estos ecosistemas en áreas de salinas desactivadas y su oportunidad de instalar parques urbanos. El estudio de caso ocurre en el área del antiguo Salinas Diogo, que hoy es el Parque del Río Cocó. Como resultado, se destaca la integración de las áreas salinas en la ciudad, con una gran ganancia en la calidad de vida urbana, pero las soluciones salinas no aparecen en la imagen colectiva urbana, lo que lleva a un estudio de protección de la memoria del paisajecultural.ABSTRACT:This essay contextualizes the production of sea salt in Brazil and its location in the colonial period, close to the northeastern coast villages to investigate the insertion of old salt flats in cities. The artisanal salt extraction were transformed into residential areas, but given the environmental conditions of some areas, there is still the opportunity to integrate them in the city, also rescuing their cultural memory. Occupied areas and production methods are evolved when the conditions most favorable to salt production, as well as their conflicts with the protection of mangrove ecosystems of the river-maritime plains are made. The regenerative capacity of these ecosystems in areas of deactivated salt production and their opportunity to install urban parks in cities are discussed. The case study occurs in the area of the former Salinas Diogo, which today is the Cocó River Park. As a result, the integration of saline areas into the city stands out, with a great gain in urban quality of life, but, on the other hand, salt production do not appear in the urban collective image, which leads to a study of protection of the memory of the culturallandscape.


Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 34
Author(s):  
Ludovica Nasca ◽  
Salvatore Giuffrida ◽  
Maria Rosa Trovato

This contribution proposes an inter-scalar and multi-polar analysis evaluation model of the territory of the Enna district, aimed at providing a robust axiological representation of the salient aspects of the general issue of internal areas, and therefore of the set of criticalities affecting them from the perspective of the human and urban capital they express. In the prospect of investigating the relations between urban and life quality – corresponding to the “city effect” – in the territorial context of each of the 20 municipalities of the Enna district, a hierarchical descriptive-valuation model was created, which coordinates a relevant amount of information units (data) and the corresponding attributes, indicators and indices that have been turned in aggregate value judgments attributed to each administrative land unit, from the perspectives of the criteria referred to as the main forms of the territorial capital. This is a multi-dimensional valuation model based on the Multi-Attribute Value Theory. Each survey and processing is mapped with different levels of detail at the scale of municipalities, census sections and cadastral land units. The outcome of this complex process of analysis and assessment provides multiple comparisons, revealing unexpected and sometimes counter-intuitive aspects in several municipalities, some of which are characterised by innovative prospects and opportunities for redevelopment of their historic centers. Correlations between information units at the different levels of the dendrogram have also indicated interesting trends and attitudes, whose comparisons can address territorial policies on both a local and provincial scale. Furthermore, the focus on the “cities network” is here assumed and proposed as the privileged point of observation of territory and the related aspects of the quality of life.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Peter Nkashi AGAN

Land use is the utilization and reordering of land cover for human comfort. This process disrupts the pristine state of the environment reducing the quality of environmental receptors like water, air, vegetation etc. Air pollution is introduced into the environment as a result of anthropogenic activities from commercial, industrial and residential areas. These activities are burning of fossil fuels for power generation, transport of goods and services, valorization of raw materials into finished products, bush burning, use of gas cookers, generators and electric stove etc. The introduction of pollutants into the planetary layer of the atmosphere has impacted negatively on the quality of the environment posing threat to humans and the survival of the ecosystem. In Lagos metropolis, commercial activities and high population densities have caused elevated levels of pollution in the city. This study aimed to investigate the spatial distribution of pollutant in Lagos metropolis with a view to revealing the marked spatial/temporal difference in pollutants levels over residential, commercial and industrial land uses. Commercial and industrial land uses revealed higher levels of pollutants than the residential areas. Pearson product moment correlation coefficients revealed strong positive relationship between land use and air quality in the city.


Author(s):  
Ivana Komadina

Novi Sad is a city with great potential for becoming a major cycling city. However, there have been certain obstacles standing in the way. Via survey, people who cycle expressed their satisfaction with the number of parking spots, storage space at home, safety in traffic, quality of cycling paths, and density of cycling paths. On the other hand, a group that does not cycle was asked for reasons behind it as well as for their opinion on how to involve more cyclists. Furthermore, we tried to illustrate the importance of social activism in promoting cycling as well as its role in implementing new social policies. This paper offers an insight into the origins of the present issues while presenting potential solutions based on already implemented methods from other major cycling capitals. Overall we propose novel approaches to tackling this issue with the hope of using this research for making the future policy more coherently and continuously. Only with a multidisciplinary and integrative approach from different parts of the community, Novi Sad can fulfill its potential to become a safe and efficient area for cyclists.


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