TY - GEN
T1 - Conscious Walk Assessment for the Joint Evaluation of the Soundscape, Air Quality, Biodiversity and Comfort in Barcelona and Sabadell
AU - Arnela, Marc
AU - Ferrándiz-Rovira, Mariona
AU - Freixes, Marc
AU - Garcia, Danielly
AU - Suquia, Carmen Martinez
AU - Parés, Ma Eulàlia
AU - Serra, Oriol
AU - Vidaña-Vila, Ester
AU - Alsina-Pagès, Rosa Ma
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 First author et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Environmental noise, poor biodiversity and air pollution are a major concern for the European population due to their impact on citizens' health, especially for those citizens living in urban environments. Conscious Walk proposal suggests a hybrid methodology to face the perceptive impact of citizens on their environment. Conscious walks have been defined as a citizen science participative project where scientists also collect high quality acoustic, chemical and biodiversity data while moving in a preselected urban environment. The final goal of the method is to get both subjective and objective data coming from soundscape, but also metrics of air quality, biodiversity and urban comfort, all of them strongly related to acoustic environmental quality. This methodology has been tested in Catalonia in different locations (Sabadell, Barcelona, etc.). In this contribution, the soundscapes of the urban center of Sabadell and the Ciutadella Park in Barcelona are evaluated. Their data is crossed with the air quality and the biodiversity information gathered in the Conscious Walk.
AB - Environmental noise, poor biodiversity and air pollution are a major concern for the European population due to their impact on citizens' health, especially for those citizens living in urban environments. Conscious Walk proposal suggests a hybrid methodology to face the perceptive impact of citizens on their environment. Conscious walks have been defined as a citizen science participative project where scientists also collect high quality acoustic, chemical and biodiversity data while moving in a preselected urban environment. The final goal of the method is to get both subjective and objective data coming from soundscape, but also metrics of air quality, biodiversity and urban comfort, all of them strongly related to acoustic environmental quality. This methodology has been tested in Catalonia in different locations (Sabadell, Barcelona, etc.). In this contribution, the soundscapes of the urban center of Sabadell and the Ciutadella Park in Barcelona are evaluated. Their data is crossed with the air quality and the biodiversity information gathered in the Conscious Walk.
KW - acoustic pollution
KW - air pollution
KW - biodiversity
KW - citizen science
KW - sensors
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85191261585
T3 - Proceedings of Forum Acusticum
BT - Forum Acusticum 2023 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
PB - European Acoustics Association, EAA
T2 - 10th Convention of the European Acoustics Association, EAA 2023
Y2 - 11 September 2023 through 15 September 2023
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