A new report – published by Barcelona’s Public Health Agency with contributions from INTERFASE and UAB researchers – found that 57% of the city’s residents are exposed to noise levels that are harmful to health as defined by the\u00a0World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n
“Road traffic is the main source of noise in the city of Barcelona, far above other sources, both during the day and at night.”<\/p>\n
The second largest source of noise in the city is leisure at night “which affects 3% of the population” according to the report<\/a>\u00a0published on the 2nd of March 2021.<\/p>\n The report details the health impacts of noise pollution which include “sleep disturbance, cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular mortality and metabolic disorders in adults and an impairment of cognitive development in children”.<\/p>\n Approximately 130 deaths annually can be attributed to “chronic exposure to noise”, the study found.<\/p>\n In order to tackle these impacts, the\u00a0city government has said in a press release<\/a>\u00a0that it aims to undertake “traffic calming and speed reduction, campaigns to reduce the acoustic impact of the noisiest vehicles and electrifying and making environmental improvements to city service vehicles”.<\/p>\n INTERFASE member Jaume Fons contributed to the report alongside UAB Geography researchers\u00a0N\u00faria Blanes and\u00a0Miquel S\u00e1inz de la Maza as part of the activities of the Grup d’Estudi de Contaminaci\u00f3 ac\u00fastica a Europa<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0The studies findings were reported by El Periodico<\/a>, betev\u00e9<\/a> and Time Out Barcelona<\/a>.<\/p>\n Image:\u00a0Daytime noise map, Ajuntament de Barcelona<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new report – published by Barcelona’s Public Health Agency with contributions from INTERFASE and UAB researchers – found that 57% of the city’s residents are exposed to noise levels that are harmful to health as defined by the\u00a0World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2826,"featured_media":1379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noise","category-general","tag-noise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2826"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/interfase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}