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A Taxonomy Proposal for the Assessment of the Changes in Soundscape Resulting from the COVID-19 Lockdown

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  • César Asensio

    (Instrumentation and Applied Acoustics Research group (I2A2), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28031 Madrid, Spain)

  • Pierre Aumond

    (UMRAE, Univ Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR, CEREMA, 44340 Bouguenais, France)

  • Arnaud Can

    (UMRAE, Univ Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR, CEREMA, 44340 Bouguenais, France)

  • Luis Gascó

    (Instrumentation and Applied Acoustics Research group (I2A2), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28031 Madrid, Spain)

  • Peter Lercher

    (Institute for Highway Engineering and Transport Planning, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria)

  • Jean-Marc Wunderli

    (Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Science and Technology, Laboratory for Acoustics/Noise Control, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland)

  • Catherine Lavandier

    (ETIS Laboratory, UMR 8051, CY Cergy Paris University, ENSEA, CNRS, F-95302 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France)

  • Guillermo de Arcas

    (Instrumentation and Applied Acoustics Research group (I2A2), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28031 Madrid, Spain)

  • Carlos Ribeiro

    (Bruitparif, 93200 Saint-Denis, France)

  • Patricio Muñoz

    (Acoucite, Observatoire de l’environnement sonore de la Métropole de Lyon, 69007 Lyon, France)

  • Gaetano Licitra

    (Environmental Protection Agency of Tuscany Region, Pisa Department, 56127 Pisa, Italy)

Abstract

Many countries around the world have chosen lockdown and restrictions on people’s mobility as the main strategies to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. These actions have significantly affected environmental noise and modified urban soundscapes, opening up an unprecedented opportunity for research in the field. In order to enable these investigations to be carried out in a more harmonized and consistent manner, this paper makes a proposal for a set of indicators that will enable to address the challenge from a number of different approaches. It proposes a minimum set of basic energetic indicators, and the taxonomy that will allow their communication and reporting. In addition, an extended set of descriptors is outlined which better enables the application of more novel approaches to the evaluation of the effect of this new soundscape on people’s subjective perception.

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  • César Asensio & Pierre Aumond & Arnaud Can & Luis Gascó & Peter Lercher & Jean-Marc Wunderli & Catherine Lavandier & Guillermo de Arcas & Carlos Ribeiro & Patricio Muñoz & Gaetano Licitra, 2020. "A Taxonomy Proposal for the Assessment of the Changes in Soundscape Resulting from the COVID-19 Lockdown," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(12), pages 1-9, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:12:p:4205-:d:370717
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    1. Peter Lercher & Bert De Coensel & Luc Dekonink & Dick Botteldooren, 2017. "Community Response to Multiple Sound Sources: Integrating Acoustic and Contextual Approaches in the Analysis," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(6), pages 1-34, June.
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