Comment on Gjestland, T. A Systematic Review of the Basis for WHO’s New Recommendation for Limiting Aircraft Noise Annoyance

  • In his recent discussion paper in this journal, Truls Gjestland attempts a "systematic review", as he calls it, of the evidence base for aircraft noise annoyance, consolidated in a meta-analysis by Guski et al. that informed the recommended guideline value of 45 dB \(L_{den}\) in the recently published World Health Organization (WHO) Environmental Noise Guidelines. He questions the validity of the presented evidence, as "some of the referenced studies have not been conducted according to standardized methods, and the selection of respondents is not representative of the general airport population." Gjestland maintains that the new WHO Guidelines are based on a questionable selection of existing aircraft noise studies. Our reply comments on the arguments of Gjestland and refutes most of his critique.

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Author:Rainer GuskiGND, Dirk SchreckenbergORCiDGND, Rudolf SchuemerGND, Mark BrinkORCiDGND, Stephen A. StansfeldGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:294-71068
DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16071088
Parent Title (English):International journal of environmental research and public health
Subtitle (English):Int. J. Env. Res. Pub. Health 2018, 15, 2717
Publisher:MDPI
Place of publication:Basel
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2020/04/06
Date of first Publication:2019/03/27
Publishing Institution:Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Universitätsbibliothek
Volume:16
Issue:7, Article 1088
First Page:1088-1
Last Page:1088-6
open_access (DINI-Set):open_access
faculties:Fakultät für Psychologie
Licence (English):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY 4.0 - Attribution 4.0 International