Installed global wind power increased by 26% during 2003, with U.S and Europe accounting for 90% of the cumulative capacity. Little is known about wind turbines’ impact on people living in their vicinity. The aims of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of annoyance due to wind turbine noise and to study dose–response relationships. Interrelationships between noise annoyance and sound characteristics, as well as the influence of subjective variables such as attitude and noise sensitivity, were also assessed. A cross-sectional study was performed in Sweden in 2000. Responses were obtained through questionnaires response rate 68.4%), and doses were calculated as A-weighted sound pressure levels for each respondent. A statistically significant dose–response relationship was found, showing higher proportion of people reporting perception and annoyance than expected from the present dose–response relationships for transportation noise. The unexpected high proportion of annoyance could be due to visual interference, influencing noise annoyance, as well as the presence of intrusive sound characteristics. The respondents’ attitude to the visual impact of wind turbines on the landscape scenery was found to influence noise annoyance.
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Perception and annoyance due to wind turbine noise—a dose–response relationship
Eja Pedersen;
Eja Pedersen
Department of Environmental Medicine, Göteborg University, P.O. Box 414, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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Kerstin Persson Waye
Kerstin Persson Waye
Department of Environmental Medicine, Göteborg University, P.O. Box 414, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
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J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 3460–3470 (2004)
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Received:
November 14 2003
Accepted:
September 18 2004
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Eja Pedersen, Kerstin Persson Waye; Perception and annoyance due to wind turbine noise—a dose–response relationship. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 1 December 2004; 116 (6): 3460–3470. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.1815091
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