Noise Policy in a more sustainable future.

This paper examines the issues that could arise regarding the implementation of noise policy in the context of the need and desire to deal with the effects of climate change. Is it going to be necessary to compromise the standards used or implied in noise policy in order to enable measures to tackle climate change to be put in place? Based on the author's extensive experience of developing and implementing noise management policy, this paper will consider how the pressures of tackling climate change could impinge on the outcomes that should be sought through noise management policy. The paper will consider the various types of noise policy that have and do exist and explore the issues that might now have to be addressed in order to secure a more sustainable future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]