Search for dissertations about: "airport noise"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words airport noise.

2. 1. Final Approach : Measurements and Ratings of Aircraft Landing Noise

   Author : Anders Johansson; Karl Bolin; Susann Boij; Antonio Filippone; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Aircraft noise; acoustic measurements; psycho acoustics measurements; noise annoyance; Flygplansbuller; akustiska mätningar; psykoakustiska mätningar; bullerstörning; Teknisk mekanik; Engineering Mechanics;

   Abstract : Följande avregleringen av flygmarknaden har flygtrafiken ökat snabbt sedan mitten av 1990-talet. Detta har oundvikligen lett till en utbyggnad av flygplatser, vilket på många platser runt om i världen har lett till oro och konflikter på grund av ökade bullernivåer. READ MORE

4. 2. Environmental conflicts and deliberative solutions? : A case study of public participation in EIA in Sweden

   Author : Linda Soneryd; Rolf Lidskog; Kerstin Jacobsson; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; public participation; public involvement; EIA; Environmental Impact Assessment; environmental conflict; deliberative democracy; airport noise; airport development; planning; risk; sociologi; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis is to analyse a case of public involvement in environmental decision-making. The thesis asks what mechanisms can include or exclude the public, in the sense of giving or denying opportunities to express views and to influence the process. READ MORE

5. 3. Pollution, Health and Housing Markets : Essays on the Consequences of Environmental Policy

   Author : Samuel Lindgren; Niclas Krüger; Jan-Erik Swärdh; Niklas Jakobsson; Örebro universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; noise; air pollution; health; housing; environmental valuation; distributional effects;

   Abstract : The objective of the thesis is to estimate the health and housing market effects of environmental policies and estimate how these effects are distributed among individuals.The first essay estimates the health effects of a noise mitigation program that provided dwelling insulation and noise barriers. READ MORE

6. 4. Individual Preferences, Choices, and Risk Perceptions - survey based evidence

   Author : Elina Lampi; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; administrators; aircraft; airports; birth order; choice experiment; citizens; environmental policy; female infertility; free entrance; general risk; health care; information; media; museum; natural experiment; noise; only-child; optimistic bias; personal risk; positional concern; relative income; siblings; stated preferences; visitor composition.;

   Abstract : Paper 1 investigates how birth order and having siblings affect positional concerns in terms of success at work and of income. We find that only-children are the most positional, but that number of siblings increases the concern for their position among those who grew up together with siblings. READ MORE

7. 5. Environmental factors in cardiovascular disease

   Author : Mats Rosenlund; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Myocardial infarction; case-control study; aircraft noise; environmental tobacco smoke; ETS; drinking water; hardness; magnesium; calcium; air pollution; long-term; geographical information system; GIS;

   Abstract : Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in Sweden and other developed countries. The purpose of this thesis is to assess the role of certain environmental factors in the etiology of cardiovascular disease, expressed as hypertension and myocardial infarction, focusing on aircraft noise, environmental tobacco smoke, drinking water hardness, and ambient air pollution. READ MORE