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Item Acoustic management of natural parks: Experience in Armañon Park(2015) Aspuru, Itziar; Garcia, Igone; Gutierrez, Laura; Santander, Alvaro; Fernández, Pilar; Madariaga, Iosu; Uribe, Maria; CALIDAD Y CONFORT AMBIENTAL; ADAPTACIÓN AL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO; Tecnalia Research & InnovationNatural Parks are ecosystems of high value and meet functions of biodiversity conservation, in terms of species and also their soundscape. This paper presents the experience carried out in Armañon Park to integrate variables of noise pollution in the park management tools. The work has two objectives: to prevent biodiversity loss associated with noise interfering natural auditory signals and to enhance the presence of natural sounds as an element of interest to visit the Natural Park. It takes into account not only the noise from outside the park, by consulting noise maps from traditional sources (road traffic, mainly), but it is specially based on the assessment of the noise associated with the uses and activities developed inside the park. The experience carried out in Armañón Park addresses the issue from the two necessary perspectives: identification of areas under preservation against noise pollution and analysis of the acoustic impact on those areas caused by uses and activities in the park. There is a legal framework in the Spanish legislation to define acoustic protection areas (reserve of natural sounds), areas whose sounds are considered subject to preservation for its unique value. The ultimate goal of the project presented in the paper is to have scientifically justified tools to condition the acoustic behavior of activities (farming, ranching, hunting, recreational, etc.) carried out in the park to preserve its biodiversity. Therefore, conclusions of the project will be integrated in the administrative tool that defines the general management plan of the Natural park, as additional requirements to the park activities.Item Evaluation of acoustic comfort and improvement needs in green spaces in Valencia as a contribution to the Action Plan(SOCIEDAD ESPANOLA DE ACUSTICA - Spanish Acoustical Society, SEA, 2019) Herranz-Pascual, Karmele; Aspuru, Itziar; Garcia, Igone; Santander, Alvaro; Calvo-Manzano, Antonio; Delgado, Ana; Perez-Lopez, Antonio; Santiago, Jose Salvador; CALIDAD Y CONFORT AMBIENTAL; ADAPTACIÓN AL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICOThe city of Valencia wants to incorporate in the city's next Noise Action Plan the positive perspective that considers the soundscape. As a first step, the degree of acoustic comfort of the urban spaces most used by the citizens was evaluated. The diagnosis was focused on the districts where population values the tranquillity of their neighbourhood with a lower score. The Results of the Barometer of public opinion were analysed, both to select the districts to analyse, and to know the use of the green spaces in each zone. The paper presents the results of the acoustic comfort assessment and the improvement needs of the selected spaces. The work focuses specifically on the acoustic variable but adds a holistic perspective of Urban Comfort in urban environment. TECNALIA combined in this work a methodology based on expert judgment or observation of subjective variables that characterize the environmental comfort (CUP-Lite), which includes the inquiry of the opinion of users on aspects that can be improved. In parallel, a collaborative evaluation process was opened with the ComfortUP! App, which is an application that allows users to collect their opinions on environmental comfort.Item Indicators of environmental comfort sensitive to human perception(IGI Global, 2018-01-05) Garcia, Igone; Herranz-Pascual, Karmele; Aspuru, Itziar; Gutierrez, Laura; Acero, Juan Angel; Santander, Alvaro; ADAPTACIÓN AL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO; CALIDAD Y CONFORT AMBIENTAL; Tecnalia Research & InnovationThis chapter introduces environmental experience as a theoretical framework that describes people's perceptions of urban places. Its aim is to describe indicators that quantify how people perceive urban environmental conditions and evaluate its level of comfort. Factors considered in the environmental comfort assessment are soundscape, thermal comfort, and natural light quality, and indicators that quantify these factors are presented and discussed. Projects are also described where environmental comfort assessments have been incorporated into urban design or management strategies. Lastly, examples are presented of ICT tools that facilitate participative observation of public places. The chapter concludes with suggestions to raise awareness of the importance of perception-driven approaches in urban assessment and design. Main conclusion is that there is a need to build consensus on the methods to address subjectivity and to exchange experiences showing the potential of these studies.Item LIFE+2010 QUADMAP project: A new methodology to select, analyze and manage Quiet Urban Areas defined by the European Directive 2002/49/EC(2016-01) Aspuru, Itziar; Garcia, Igone; Bartalucci, Chiara; Borchi, Francesco; Carfagni, Monica; Governi, Lapo; Bellomini, Raffaella; Luzzi, Sergio; Wolfert, Henk; Gaudibert, Piotr; CALIDAD Y CONFORT AMBIENTAL; ADAPTACIÓN AL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICOConcerning quiet areas, the definition provided by the Environmental Noise Directive (END) is intended to preserve the acoustic environment in those areas where it is considered good, according to general indicators and limits. However, the END is not clear enough to allow appropriate assessment and management in urban environments. The aim of QUADMAP project was to deliver a method and guidelines for the identification, delineation, characterization, improvement and management of Quiet Urban Areas (QUAs) as defined by the END. The Project also wanted to help clarify the definition of a QUA, its meaning and its added value for cities in terms of health, safety and lowering stress levels. In this article, after an introduction of the current European scenario on QUAs, the main aspects of the methodology introduced for the selection, analysis and management of QUAs are described. Eventually, the major results achieved by the Project, in terms of the guideline on QUAs, the implemented interventions and the achieved benefits, are reported and discussed.Item Spanish law affects the spatial and urban planning(2012) Aspuru, Itziar; Garcia, Igone; Fernández, Pilar; CALIDAD Y CONFORT AMBIENTAL; ADAPTACIÓN AL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICOThe new Spanish law, made by Law 37/2003 and Royal Decrees that develop it (RD 1513/2005 and RD 1367/2007) came up with the momentum of the European Noise Directive. It meets the objectives of doing Noise Maps and Action Plans, which should correct the existing conflict situations, prevent the creation of new conflicts and preserve areas with good sound quality. In this paper we want to emphasize the substantial effect of this law on the procedures and instruments of territorial and land planning. The paper analyzes the content of the law and its consequences in the daily practice of urban planning technicians and environmental agencies to review the changes in urban planning. It also presents the barriers found to the implementation of the legislation and it explains some proposed tools to facilitate the new tasks to be developed by technicians not skilled in acoustics and to adapt the deepness of the studies to the size of the potential problems to prevent.Item Understanding soundscape as a specific environmental experience: Highlighting the importance of context relevance(2011) Aspuru, Itziar; Garcia, Igone; Herranz-Pascual, Karmele; Garcia-Borreguero, Ibone; CALIDAD Y CONFORT AMBIENTAL; ADAPTACIÓN AL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO; Datos y ProtocolosA conceptual model about environmental experience is presented to guide soundscape studies. This proposal combines the state of the art and the experience of Tecnalia regarding psychosocial studies which focuses on the relationship between environment and people. The model has been structured around five main elements: person (community), place, activity, previous interaction between person and place, and environmental experience. The environmental experience is understood as a holistic experience not only within that soundscape but also linked to other perceptions, such as landscape, odour, etc. The relevant factors and variables of each main element have been identified to assist us in describing human and social holistic experience in relation to the place, in general, and soundscape (perception) in particular. The main objective of this paper is to analyze conceptually and throughout a field experiment, the relevance of the context, understanding it as the surrounding circumstances of the environmental experience. Hence, a field experiment is presented to analyze the relevance of a context characteristic, namely sound environment on the global environmental experience.