| dc.description.abstract | Listening is, both, the first step in communication, and affects how we move. What we hear defines
our life. Our health, quality of life, and social communication depend on what we hear and directly
determine the measure of our well-being.
Noise is inseparable from questions of power and powerlessness and from questions about conflict,
rights, abuse, and usurpation. In the context of spatial justice being is a concept uniting issues of
spatial management and social justice and is based on the idea that all social problems and injustices
have their representation in physical space, noise represents an indicator of the asymmetry of rights
and the state of political culture in the community. Such circumstances lead people to have difficulties
in understanding each other, threatening good interpersonal relations. Hence, sustainable noise
management as a matter of general interest must meet all community members’ needs.
Noise is one of the most acute manifestations of the structural problems of managing spatial
resources in a society because it reflects the exclusion of citizens from the decision-making process,
the privatization of public space, and the manipulation of public interest. Understanding the
numerous aspects of the harmful effects of noise, from health risks to endangering rights, the
measure of social disapproval and condemnation is increasing and the requirements for effective
noise protection are intensifying. Due to its far-reaching implications for our well-being, noise, and
noise protection are expected to become issues of special political interest and the distributional
effects of noise mitigating efforts to gain an important place in political processes in society | sr |
