Irene van Kamp – författare

An interdisciplinary symposium was held at Lund University in Sweden in march 2017 arranged by the Sound Environment Center aimed at shedding light on how sound environment affects children, spanning all the way from the prenatal stage to the young person enjoying loud music or engaging in other loud activities. Too seldom the question is asked of how the child percieves the surrounding sound environment. This report from the Child & Noise symposium brings forward answers to this question as well as presents state-of-the-art knowledge of children and the world of sound, music and noise from top researchers in the field. CHILD & NOISE – CONTRIBUTIONS Preface by Frans Mossberg - The Sound Environent Center at Lund University Minna Houtilainen Docent, University of Helsinki and Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala University Irene van Kamp PhD. National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Utrecht, Netherlands Mette Sörensen Senior Scientist at Danish Cancer Society, Copenhagen, Denmark Kerstin Person Waye prof. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg Bridget Shield prof. em. Acoustics, London South Bank University, Great Britain Jonas Christenson Acoustic consultant, Ecophon, St.Gobain, Sweden

This open access book highlights the negative and positive health effects of chronic exposure to environmental sound. It describes the state of the art in the field from a public health point of view and puts it in a broad societal perspective looking at sound from physical, social, psychological, economic and governance angles. Rather than a mere collection of papers around the theme as usually provided in special issues, this book offers a comprehensive look at the meaning of sound in society and its impacts and provides directions to further advance the field.