Small-area analysis of social inequalities in residential exposure to road traffic noise in Marseilles, France

Bocquier, Aurélie; Cortaredona, Sébastien; Boutin, Céline; David, Aude; Bigot, Alexis; Chaix, Basile; Gaudart, Jean; Verger, Pierre

doi:10.1093/eurpub/cks059

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“…The boxplot shows a small tendency for a U-shape for the connection of L den and income, which was related to the attractive city center locations in Hamburg. A similar, yet stronger U-connection was discovered for Marseille [37] and Amsterdam [93], showing the importance of context variables for the interpretation of results [36].…”

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Relation between Observed and Perceived Traffic Noise and Socio-Economic Status in Urban Blocks of Different Characteristics

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Living in cities offers many benefits and thus more and more people are living in urban areas. However, the concentration of human activities also creates environmental stressors with severe influence on people's health and well-being. Noise is an environmental stressor with known health impact. Despite this, studies investigating small-scale difference in noise exposure and annoyance are lacking. Against this background, this case study investigates environmental justice empirically, focusing on the distribution of road traffic noise and its perception in Hamburg, Germany. The study outlines a methodological approach that takes into account subjective and objective measures of exposure in small-scale residential blocks. The results show that annoyance by noise is clearly related to noise emission. Moreover, different groups are affected by noise pollution in our study area unequally. In particular, younger people and people with lower socio-economic status have higher probabilities to be affected by noise. Additionally, it emerged that participants reporting higher levels of annoyance from noise are on average younger than those feeling less annoyed. Overall, these results show that the current legal noise limits applicable to residential planning processes in German cities are not sufficient to prevent substantial annoyance effects in residential populations.

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Relation between Observed and Perceived Traffic Noise and Socio-Economic Status in Urban Blocks of Different Characteristics

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“…To close, we did not consider the causal effects of urban dynamics and planning policies and processes on environmental distributive and procedural environmental justice in our analysis. In addition, our study results have to be re-examined and reflected by future studies from different planning contexts (see also Bocquier et al 2012).…”

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“…Forkenbrock and Schweitzer 1999;Mielck 2004;Kohlhuber et al 2006), whereas another study demonstrated the opposite pattern (Harvard et al 2011). A recent study revealed highest noise exposures for those subgroups who are socially 'in-between' (Bocquier et al 2012). However, scaling of research and study design (ecological, individual or multilevel), exposure classification and data resolution may veil (or unveil) socio-spatial differences (Lakes and Br€ uckner 2011) and partially account for the mixed evidence.…”

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“…By averaging point data of noise levels within buffers around study participants' residential co-ordinates (Harvard et al 2011), for example, research might miscalculate small-scale exposure differentials at building façades along highly trafficked streets. Exposure misclassification might also occur in ecological studies operationalising both traffic-related noise exposure and social indicators on the same spatial scale due to aggregation of noise point data and individual social data (Bocquier et al 2012). …”

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“…As a result, social inequalities in health might enlarge, since both subjective and objective indicators of residential exposure to road traffic noise have been related to chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases and sleep impairment (PasschierVermeer and Passchier 2000;Niemann and Maschke 2004). However, most studies apply either spatially modelled traffic noise exposure (Forkenbrock and Schweitzer 1999;Havard et al 2011;Lakes and Br€ uckner 2011;Bocquier et al 2012) or residents' 'perception' or 'annoyance' of traffic noise exposure (Mielck 2004;Swart and Hoffmann 2004;Kohlhuber et al 2006 However, analyses integrating objective and subjective indicators of residential exposure to road traffic noise are indispensable, since research has not decided upon whether and, if it does, why noise perception and annoyance varies by social position (Mielck 2004, 152-153). Arguments put forward by current publications are not without contradiction, as will be illustrated shortly.…”

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Assessing the relationship between objective and subjective indicators of residential exposure to road traffic noise in the context of environmental justice

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Noise action planning according to the EU Environmental Noise Directive aims to improve people's health. Although health inequalities exist, the Directive does not address social inequalities in residential exposure to road traffic noise. In multivariate regression analyses based on two urban study populations, we assess the relationship between objective and subjective indicators of residential exposure to road traffic noise as an issue of environmental justice. Residential neighbourhood satisfaction, socio-demographic and -economic, health-related and noise-related attitudinal factors were included as covariates additionally explaining the subjective response to road traffic noise (noise annoyance). Our results underline the need to select, operationalise and examine noise-related indicators very carefully, as objective noise exposure predicts noise annoyance insufficiently. Otherwise, urban environmental planning might miss environmentally unjust situations and fail to initiate distributive and procedural environmental justice.

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Residential exposure to environmental nuisances in Cameroon

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Fassi Poumeni

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Sustainable Development

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The objective of this study is to analyze the determinants of perceived residential exposure to environmental nuisances in Cameroon. The ordered logit model specified in our empirical analysis is estimated using data from the Fourth Cameroon Household Survey. Our findings suggest that perceived residential exposure to environmental nuisance is inversely related to home ownership and having a fence around home. Conversely, it is related to both internal household factors such as the use of kerosene for cooking and external factors such as the pavement of the road leading to housing and the proximity to transport infrastructure. For example, the use of kerosene for cooking is associated with a 0.025 point increase in the probability of being occasionally bothered by odor nuisance and a 0.036 point decrease in the probability of never being annoyed by odor nuisance. Similarly, the pavement of the road leading to housing and proximity to transport infrastructure are associated with a respective 0.121 and 0.170 points increase in the probability of being frequently bothered by noise pollution. Various relevant policy recommendations were proposed among which, the implementation of effective urban planning and transport systems to accompany urban expansion as well as the subsidies to ease access to improved stoves.

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Small-area analysis of social inequalities in residential exposure to road traffic noise in Marseilles, France

Cited by 50 publications

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Relation between Observed and Perceived Traffic Noise and Socio-Economic Status in Urban Blocks of Different Characteristics

Relation between Observed and Perceived Traffic Noise and Socio-Economic Status in Urban Blocks of Different Characteristics

Assessing the relationship between objective and subjective indicators of residential exposure to road traffic noise in the context of environmental justice

Residential exposure to environmental nuisances in Cameroon

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