Evaluation and prediction of noise pollution levels in urban areas of Cdiz (Spain)

In the European policy, one of the most important objectives is to achieve a high level of health and environmental protection. The latest studies have shown that more than 20% of the world population lives under unacceptable noise levels and near 60% of the European population is exposed to worrying noise levels during the day. So, nowadays one of the objectives to be pursued is the protection against noise, one of the main environmental problems in Europe. During the last 10 years different studies have been carried out in urban areas of Cdiz, in order to evaluate the noise pollution level and its management. Those studies exposed how the continuous development of legal device, more capable each time, might moderate the upper emission levels. Instead of it, the share of the medium levels of the population hold up and could be detrimental for its normal development, increasing progressively. It will be useful to develop more studies in this area, as we are doing in El Campo de Gibraltar to study those damaging levels and to predict their tendency, in order to establish and improve new methods of environmental noise protection.