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This Special Issue was launched to promote a subject that is deserving of more attention: the study of new metrics, indicators or evaluation methods for noise exposure, and the relationship of noise with annoyance or other health effects, thus not relying only on an average noise exposure measure. This Special Issue on the theme of the New Indicators for the Assessment and Prevention of Noise Nuisance has attracted the interest of authors from all over the world, with the publication of two reviews and two communications, as well as original research papers. Progress has been made in the investigated topic; however, it is still necessary to increase the awareness of the population, both in geographical terms and for workers in specific sectors, such as the marine industry. It emerged that it is essential to carry out future studies that distinguish better between different sound sources with respect to their sound quality in terms of frequency, time pattern (fluctuation, emergence), and psychoacoustic indices, because a differential human reaction to sound sources is increasingly evident. More longitudinal studies are required. However, cross-sectional studies employing a more detailed soundscape description (including background) by competing sound indices are also useful to further the required knowledge to understand the human response in terms of the broad spectrum of potential adverse effects on health and quality of life.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- sound emergence --- legislation --- annoyance --- measurement --- prediction --- uncertainty --- audibility --- signal-to-noise ratio --- sound pressure level --- field measurements --- spectrum analysis --- interior noise and vibration of vehicle --- COVID-19 --- noise --- soundscape --- metrics --- indicators --- descriptors --- sound --- lockdown --- Twitter --- geolocation --- noise classification --- seafarers --- acoustic pollution --- noise onboard ship --- health impact --- environmental pollution --- noise survey --- hypertension --- environmental noise --- railway noise --- recreational noise --- airport noise --- road traffic noise --- blood pressure --- noise annoyance --- diastolic blood pressure --- helicopter cabin --- noise levels --- noise reduction --- acoustic evaluation --- IAR Puma 330 --- ultrasound --- active noise control --- adjustable PAL --- quiet areas --- macro-temporal pattern --- noise indicator --- cognitive performance --- Stroop task --- listening experiment --- port noise --- noise sources --- noise mapping --- noise mitigations --- noise modeling --- ship noise --- sustainable management --- noise exposure prevention --- noise measurements --- research projects --- noise indicators --- noise metrics --- psychoacoustic --- nuisance --- sleep disturbance --- peak noise --- impulsive events --- health related quality of life --- health effects

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Environmental odour is perceived as a major nuisance by rural as well as urban populations. The sources of odourous substances are manifold. In urban areas, these include restaurants, small manufacturing trades, and other sources, which might cause complaints. In the suburbs, wastewater treatment plants, landfill sites, and other infrastructures are the expected major odour sources. These problems are often caused be the accelerated growth of cities. In rural sites, livestock farming and the spreading of manure on the fields is blamed for severe odour annoyance. In fact, environmental odours are considered to be a common cause of public complaints by residents to local authorities, regional, or national environmental agencies. This Special Issue of Atmosphere will address the entire chain, from the quantification of odour sources, abatement methods, the dilution in the atmosphere, and the assessment of odour exposure for the assessment of annoyance. In particular, this Special Issue aims to encourage contributions dealing with field trials and dispersion modeling to assess the degree of annoyance and the quantitative success of abatement measures.

environmental odour --- emission --- annoyance --- separation distance --- dispersion models --- empirical equations --- odour --- dispersion modelling --- wastewater treatment --- odour impact criteria --- separation distances --- odour legislation --- air quality --- air pollution --- odor --- smell --- odour units --- agriculture --- environmental regulations --- policy --- VOC --- GC-QTOF-MS --- GC-IMS --- wastewater treatment plant --- air dispersion model --- dose–response relationship --- odor impact criterion (OIC) --- perception-related odor exposure --- wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) --- Odors --- Odor Patrol --- Odor Profile Method --- monitoring Odors --- field inspection --- odour impact --- odour modelling --- olfactometry --- proficiency test --- bench loop --- n-butanol --- sampling uncertainties --- odorants --- SOAV --- OTV --- livestock --- odour dispersion modelling --- climate change --- stability classification --- n/a --- dose-response relationship

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This book gathers 14 original contributions published in an IJERPH Special Issue that deal with the perception of environmental sounds and how such sounds are likely to affect human quality of life and well-being and the experience of a place. The research focus over the years has been gradually shifting from treating sound simply as “noise” and something that cities should get rid of to a potential “resource” to promote and support community life in public spaces. Three main topics or “needs” to be addressed by researchers and practitioners emerged from this Special Issue: (1) the need to re-think “quietness” in cities as something that goes beyond the mere “pursuit of silence”, (2) the need to integrate additional contextual factors in the characterization and management of urban acoustic environments for public health, and (3) the need to consider the acoustic quality of indoor spaces as opposed to an outdoor-only perspective. The contributions collected in this book will hopefully trigger new questions and inform the agenda of future researchers and practitioners in the environmental acoustics domain.

Humanities --- Social interaction --- green space --- greenness --- noise exposure --- noise perception --- soundscape --- environmental sounds --- quietness --- vibrancy --- acoustic environments --- urban sound planning --- environmental noise --- public health --- well-being --- quality of life --- restoration --- quiet areas --- noise abatement --- soundscape design --- landscape planning --- urban planning --- general plan --- sustainability --- acoustic comfort --- inner yard acoustics --- soundscape pleasantness --- sound perception --- virtual room acoustics --- virtual audio --- quality of experience --- irrelevant speech noise --- noise annoyance --- productivity --- mental health --- cross-sectional survey --- open-plan offices --- shared offices --- occupants' behavior --- restorative effect --- children's cognitive performance --- classroom soundscape --- sustained attention --- short-term memory --- urban environments --- semiosis model --- square dancing --- public spaces --- acoustic territory --- enjoyment --- appropriateness --- psychological restoration --- emotions --- acoustic environment --- urban open public spaces --- urban design --- stress --- experiment --- virtual reality --- bird song --- noise --- perceived restoration --- quiet area --- urban park --- urban square --- audio-visual interaction --- audio-visual walk --- young people's psychological response --- orthogonal analysis --- urban parks --- Musikiosk --- soundscape intervention --- democratic soundscape installation --- quality of the urban public experience --- mixed methods study --- pocket park --- physiology --- perceptual attributes --- auditory --- sonic experience --- tranquillity --- garden therapy --- landscape architecture --- Japanese gardens --- autoethnography --- soundscape actions --- green space --- greenness --- noise exposure --- noise perception --- soundscape --- environmental sounds --- quietness --- vibrancy --- acoustic environments --- urban sound planning --- environmental noise --- public health --- well-being --- quality of life --- restoration --- quiet areas --- noise abatement --- soundscape design --- landscape planning --- urban planning --- general plan --- sustainability --- acoustic comfort --- inner yard acoustics --- soundscape pleasantness --- sound perception --- virtual room acoustics --- virtual audio --- quality of experience --- irrelevant speech noise --- noise annoyance --- productivity --- mental health --- cross-sectional survey --- open-plan offices --- shared offices --- occupants' behavior --- restorative effect --- children's cognitive performance --- classroom soundscape --- sustained attention --- short-term memory --- urban environments --- semiosis model --- square dancing --- public spaces --- acoustic territory --- enjoyment --- appropriateness --- psychological restoration --- emotions --- acoustic environment --- urban open public spaces --- urban design --- stress --- experiment --- virtual reality --- bird song --- noise --- perceived restoration --- quiet area --- urban park --- urban square --- audio-visual interaction --- audio-visual walk --- young people's psychological response --- orthogonal analysis --- urban parks --- Musikiosk --- soundscape intervention --- democratic soundscape installation --- quality of the urban public experience --- mixed methods study --- pocket park --- physiology --- perceptual attributes --- auditory --- sonic experience --- tranquillity --- garden therapy --- landscape architecture --- Japanese gardens --- autoethnography --- soundscape actions

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"The world today seems full of anger. In the West, particularly in the US and UK, this anger can oftentimes feel aimless, a possible product of social media. Still, anger is normally considered a useful motivational source for positive social change. Channeling that anger into movements for civil rights, alleviation of socio-economic inequality, and the end of endless wars, has long been understood as a valuable tactic. Moreover, anger is believed to be handy in everyday life in order to protect, and stick up for, oneself. On the flip side, the world today celebrates diminishing amounts of shame. Political leaders and pundits shamelessly abandon commitments to integrity, truth and decency, and in general, shame is considered to be a primitive, ugly emotion, which causes eating disorders, PTSD, teenage pregnancy, suicide, and other highly undesirable circumstances. Having shame is, thus, regularly understood as both psychologically bad and morally bad. Continuing his method of doing ethics by bringing in cross-cultural philosophy, research from psychology, and in this case widening that to include cultural psychology and anthropology, Flanagan shows exactly how our culture shapes our emotions-through norms and traditions-and how proper cultivation of our emotions can yield important progress in our morality"-- In How to Do Things with Emotions, philosopher Owen Flanagan argues this thinking is backwards, and that we need to tune down anger and tune up shame. By examining cross-cultural resources, Flanagan demonstrates how certain kinds of anger are destructive, while a 'mature' sense of shame can be used -as it is in many cultures- as a socializing emotion, that does not need to be attached to the self, but can be called upon to protect good values (kindness, truth) rather than bad ones (racism, sexism). Drawing from Stoic, Buddhist, and other cultural traditions, Flanagan explains that payback anger (i.e., revenge) and pain-passing anger (i.e., passing hurt one is feeling to someone else) are incorrigible, and also, how the Western view of shame rooted in traditions of psychoanalysis is entirely unwarranted.

Anger. --- Conduct of life. --- Emotions. --- Shame. --- Anger --- Shame --- Emotions --- Conduct of life --- Ethics, Practical --- Morals --- Personal conduct --- Ethics --- Philosophical counseling --- Activism. --- Adjective. --- Annoyance. --- Anxiety. --- Aristotelianism. --- Attachment theory. --- Behavior. --- Bullying. --- C. H. Waddington. --- Causality. --- Coevolution. --- Consciousness. --- Controversy. --- Cortisol. --- Critique. --- Cross-cultural. --- Cruelty. --- Cultural diversity. --- Cultural psychology. --- Deed. --- Deference. --- Deliberation. --- Dialect. --- Disadvantage. --- Disgust. --- Display rules. --- Disposition. --- Emotional Intelligence. --- Emotional expression. --- Emotional intelligence. --- Emotional self-regulation. --- Emotional well-being. --- Ethicist. --- Ethnic group. --- Facial expression. --- Feeling. --- Folk psychology. --- Forgiveness. --- Grief. --- Hard problem of consciousness. --- Human behavior. --- Human science. --- Human. --- Humiliation. --- Idealism. --- Incitement. --- Individuation. --- Interaction. --- Interpersonal relationship. --- Intrapersonal communication. --- Introspection. --- James Mark Baldwin. --- Know-how. --- Language family. --- Linguistic relativity. --- Modus operandi. --- Moral psychology. --- Multiculturalism. --- Obstacle. --- Part of speech. --- Paternalism. --- Personality. --- Phenomenon. --- Phenotypic trait. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of mind. --- Pity. --- Prediction. --- Psychology. --- Punishment. --- Qualia. --- Racism. --- Reason. --- Recklessness (psychology). --- Religion. --- Remade. --- Resentment. --- Role model. --- Sadness. --- Semantics. --- Sexual dimorphism. --- Sexual orientation. --- Skepticism. --- Social theory. --- Social transformation. --- Sociocultural evolution. --- Subculture. --- The Concept of Anxiety. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Trait theory. --- Utilitarianism. --- Vagueness. --- Vasopressin. --- Verb. --- Will to power.

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This book gathers 14 original contributions published in an IJERPH Special Issue that deal with the perception of environmental sounds and how such sounds are likely to affect human quality of life and well-being and the experience of a place. The research focus over the years has been gradually shifting from treating sound simply as “noise” and something that cities should get rid of to a potential “resource” to promote and support community life in public spaces. Three main topics or “needs” to be addressed by researchers and practitioners emerged from this Special Issue: (1) the need to re-think “quietness” in cities as something that goes beyond the mere “pursuit of silence”, (2) the need to integrate additional contextual factors in the characterization and management of urban acoustic environments for public health, and (3) the need to consider the acoustic quality of indoor spaces as opposed to an outdoor-only perspective. The contributions collected in this book will hopefully trigger new questions and inform the agenda of future researchers and practitioners in the environmental acoustics domain.

green space --- greenness --- noise exposure --- noise perception --- soundscape --- environmental sounds --- quietness --- vibrancy --- acoustic environments --- urban sound planning --- environmental noise --- public health --- well-being --- quality of life --- restoration --- quiet areas --- noise abatement --- soundscape design --- landscape planning --- urban planning --- general plan --- sustainability --- acoustic comfort --- inner yard acoustics --- soundscape pleasantness --- sound perception --- virtual room acoustics --- virtual audio --- quality of experience --- irrelevant speech noise --- noise annoyance --- productivity --- mental health --- cross-sectional survey --- open-plan offices --- shared offices --- occupants’ behavior --- restorative effect --- children’s cognitive performance --- classroom soundscape --- sustained attention --- short-term memory --- urban environments --- semiosis model --- square dancing --- public spaces --- acoustic territory --- enjoyment --- appropriateness --- psychological restoration --- emotions --- acoustic environment --- urban open public spaces --- urban design --- stress --- experiment --- virtual reality --- bird song --- noise --- perceived restoration --- quiet area --- urban park --- urban square --- audio-visual interaction --- audio-visual walk --- young people’s psychological response --- orthogonal analysis --- urban parks --- Musikiosk --- soundscape intervention --- democratic soundscape installation --- quality of the urban public experience --- mixed methods study --- pocket park --- physiology --- perceptual attributes --- auditory --- sonic experience --- tranquillity --- garden therapy --- landscape architecture --- Japanese gardens --- autoethnography --- soundscape actions --- n/a --- occupants' behavior --- children's cognitive performance --- young people's psychological response