Mia Suhanek

University of Zagreb

Mia Suhanek received her doctoral degree in 2013 with a dissertation entitled “Evaluation of soundscapes regarding sudden and unexpected sound changes.\" Over the years, she has participated in numerous scientific congresses and has been involved in scientific research, teaching, and professional work in electroacoustics, noise, audiotechnics, and digital logic. Currently, Dr. Suhanek is an assistant professor in the Department of Electroacoustics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include soundscape modeling, analysis of noise pollution, and psychoacoustics.

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Latest work with IntechOpen by Mia Suhanek

Noise pollution has a significant impact on our overall quality of life. This book aims to address different aspects of noise pollution and provide guidelines, noise policies, and laws regarding environmental noise and its challenges. The book draws attention to these policies and laws, which are often neglected and not implemented. One of the main issues today, especially for those living in urban areas, is traffic noise. The book discusses how such noise can be monitored and mitigated. Additionally, industrial noise poses a significant health risk for people working in noisy environments. The book emphasizes the need for special precautionary measures to preserve their health. The book also addresses infrasound noise exposure (≤ 20 Hz) and its negative impact on residential areas near wind power plants. Each chapter presents a specific type of noise pollution and proposes possible solutions and innovative approaches to dealing with the noise. Noise pollution management is a challenging task, and solutions must be creative since it is difficult to implement them once the problem already exists. This book aims to raise awareness about noise pollution, while presenting information and knowledge about current laws and guidelines. It offers innovative solutions to noise problems and specific case scenarios of noise pollution.

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Management of Noise Pollution

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Traffic Noise

By Sanja Grubesa and Mia Suhanek

Currently, noise pollution is a major problem especially in urban areas, and moreover traffic noise is the most significant source of noise in cities. A large number of cars and other road vehicles that have internal combustion engines are making road traffic noise a leading noise pollution source. Electric and hybrid cars, which are nowadays slowly replacing them, give rise to lower noise level in urban areas as their engines are generally silent. However, the mere absence of internal combustion engines cannot be the only measure for lowering noise levels in urban areas. The goal of this chapter is to define and describe traffic noise, the reasons for its occurrence, and all existing ways of reducing traffic noise.

Part of the book: Noise and Environment

Innovative Approaches to Noise Reduction

By Mia Suhanek and Sanja Grubesa

Nowadays, each individual is exposed to noise on a daily basis, and noise is often referred as in literature as a plague of modern society. Noise pollution is often overlooked when compared to other environmental pollutions (e.g. air, water, soil pollution). However, same as the all aforementioned pollutions, noise exposure has an accumulating character, meaning that the harmful effect of noise is detected only after a long period of time. Long exposure to noise pollution can be displayed as a bad mood, fatigue, insomnia, headache and loss of concentration, which causes reduced work ability and ultimately permanent hearing impairment. The goal of this chapter is to present two different approaches (traditional and contemporary) in noise reductions. The aim of both approaches is to link objective and subjective acoustic parameters, in order to plan future urban infrastructures while keeping in mind the existing acoustic environments, and to create and implement new solutions that will design, preserve and improve acoustic environments. Thus, we can conclude this chapter will be oriented towards human health and overall quality of life in terms of noise reduction.

Part of the book: Noise and Environment

Introductory Chapter: Management of Noise Pollution

By Mia Suhanek

Part of the book: Management of Noise Pollution

Mia Suhanek

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Management of Noise Pollution

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