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Noise Pollution: What the Scientific Community Can Do?

Alessandro Ruggiero

The modern urbanization course and the expansion of industry and in a large part of the world have been accompanied by several environmental difficulties such as waste management, greenhouse gas emissions, wastewater and environmental noise pollution.

A study made by the World Health Organization (WHO) underlines that noise pollution is second among a series of environmental “stressors” for their public health effects, having it auditory and non-auditory high health impacts.

The question is: what can do the scientific community for the control of noise exposure?